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|''[[The Good Life]]''}}

{{quote|''"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."''|'''Cicero''}}

{{quote|''"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."''|'''Cicero'''}}

{{quote|''"The thing I love about this is, on the internet, people make a big deal out of the distinction between calling someone names as a way of ''refuting'' their arguments, and calling someone names [[For the Lulz|just as a kind of a hobby.]]"''|''[[Lore Sjoberg]]''}}

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''What they're almost always talking about are people who don't agree with them."''

|'''Forbin''' on a 2016 [http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-05-06-steams-turned-toxic-and-valve-doesnt-care GamesIndustry.biz article] criticizing [[Steam]]'s community, ''/v/[[Gamergate|GamerGate]] [https://voat.co/v/GamerGate/comments/1026449 thread]'' ([[Voat]])}}

{{quote|When people have actual reasons for disagreeing with you, they offer those reasons without hesitation. Strangers on social media will cheerfully check your facts, your logic, and your assumptions. But when you start seeing ad hominem attacks that offer no reasons at all, that might be a sign that people [[Shared Mass Hallucination|in the mass hysteria bubble]] don’t understand what is wrong with your point of view except that it sounds more sensible than their own.

|''[http://blog.dilbert.com/post/164297628606/how-to-know-youre-in-a-mass-hysteria-bubble How To Know You’re In a Mass Hysteria Bubble]'', on '''[[Scott Adams]]'''<nowiki></nowiki>' Blog }}