it seems likely that this will have a few effects dumb people or disinterested people might be swayed, absent pushback from an opponent attentive or opposed people will correctly judge you to be acting dishonestly and dishonorably, and be likely to discount your other claims
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people in your ingroup will feel obliged to defend your stupid fucking argument when its inevitably (correctly) attacked as dumb by outgroup folks, making them complicit in your Sin the outgroup will feel obliged to respond with their own dumb arguments prisoners dilemma style
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very quickly everything becomes very dumb i guess this is just the human condition in conclusion, Become Epicurean i guess
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what no although maybe now that you mention it
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sometimes i do this as a way to signal contempt for an interlocutor
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it's unkind and i'm trying to stop
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yes! same. It makes it easier to pattern match my good arguments into "yeah bullshit we've hear this song and dance"
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do you have an example
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Um this fell out of some social discussions with an extreme (someone) who just kind of expressed preferences for things then free-form waved (their) hands at "studies" Other example off the top of my head: "the economy grows more quickly under presidents of Party X"
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