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You know the feeling. You get into an argument with someone, the two of you are going at each other back and forth, and they get you so riled up that you suddenly can't think of a good comeback until long after the fight is over.

There's actually a French term for this called l'esprit de l'escalier. It describes the feeling you get when you come up with the perfect reply after the fact.

We've all been there. It's devastating.

So let's take a moment and pay our respects to and celebrate the really good comebacks—the ultimate expressions of wit and cleverness. Taken from the appropriately titled subreddit r/MurderedByWords, here are some of the best ways people have ended their disagreements.

#2

Deutscher Patriotismus vs. American Patriotism

Deutscher Patriotismus vs. American Patriotism

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"Educate Your Self"

"Educate Your Self"

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That’s A Stupid Reason To Ban Transgender People

That’s A Stupid Reason To Ban Transgender People

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Anti Vaxxer Pretends To Be Educated

Anti Vaxxer Pretends To Be Educated

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Stephanie Did It
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And polio, measles, pneumonia, diptheria, influenza? Oh and that pesky Bubonic Plague. A healthy gut sure worked there.

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#6

Just Try Not Being Straight For Awhile

Just Try Not Being Straight For Awhile

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember this from a few weeks ago! After all, ii did say I wanted to, given its a brilliant comeback :D

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#8

This Comeback Belongs In The Hall Of Fame

This Comeback Belongs In The Hall Of Fame

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Jihana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seems like for some people the concept of consent is a pretty hard one to grasp...

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#9

In The Interests Of Public Safety

In The Interests Of Public Safety

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Bye Bye Trash!!

Bye Bye Trash!!

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He himself is both a boob and an ass. If he can find a like minded friend they'd make an interesting pair 😂

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#13

Honestly, You're Not Important Enough To Be Microchipped

Honestly, You're Not Important Enough To Be Microchipped

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Monday
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I ask again...why would they give us FREE microchips with our vaccinations? If they wanted to microchip us you'd better believe they're going to make us pay for it too.

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#14

"I Don’t Understand Marches"

"I Don’t Understand Marches"

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Monday
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How does Tomi still have a job? I feel like I could write a bloody book about the moronic things I've seen from her on this website alone...Did she just never learn how to think...or at the very least google...before she speaks/posts?

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#15

Your Bigotry Is Showing

Your Bigotry Is Showing

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Toujin C'Thlu
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stuff like this also shows how mentally stuck in the past conservatives are. They honestly think scenes like this will actually scare people as much it scares them.

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#16

America, F**k Yeah!

America, F**k Yeah!

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Foxxy (The Original)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's sad that someone let alone a child needs to do this. This is a government and school funding issue.

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#17

Babies Are Not A Plaything

Babies Are Not A Plaything

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Scagsy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Regardless of context, I think the reply was justified. As someone who can't have kids, I am sick to the back teeth of people asking me when and why we don't have kids. Mind your own business.

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$10 To Clean The Bathroom?!

$10 To Clean The Bathroom?!

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

7 out of ten dollars? Smh is that really what they think? I pay around 19-21% and get a lot of it back in tax credits. Do you think it's the 'ism' that makes ppl think socialism is communism? We could always try calling it socialocracy

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#21

Let's Blame Children's Knees For Making Men Uncomfortable

Let's Blame Children's Knees For Making Men Uncomfortable

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do they not filter out the weirdos who apply to be teachers? Or are they just good at hiding it?

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#22

God Is A White Man

God Is A White Man

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Nikki Sevven
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Funny, I've read the Bible many times, and have yet to come across the chapter and verse where God mandates that white men be in the majority. Anyone?

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#23

America Was Not Started By Protestors!

America Was Not Started By Protestors!

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Who Knows What They Put In "Food" Anyway?

Who Knows What They Put In "Food" Anyway?

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard he apparently was breathing air in those two weeks, so hold ur breath and I'll get back to u asap....

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Jeepers Creepers

Jeepers Creepers

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This, right? Taking strangers pics is not very subtle! Especially this well framed, poor dude. Now I wonder about genders reversed: guy taking picture of young woman with such inference? Well if I find that creepy (which I do), then by all logic this is equally as creepy (which it is)

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#27

There's No Vaccination For That

There's No Vaccination For That

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Stephanie Did It
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's sad is that her children have to suffer for her to be proven an idiot.

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Ozacoter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not vaccinating your kids should be co sidered child abuse. They are risking their lives out of stupidity. Thise kids should be taken to better families that would protect them from harm.

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François Carré
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i'm not a parent, but I assume pretending you know it all when your children are only 8 months old is a bit presumptuous.

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soni w
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And I think commenting on something you know nothing about is extremely pretentious.

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Trillian
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's how you know vaccines work. Because most other people are in fact vaccinated and therefore haven't exposed your kids.

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RoseTheMad
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish people would learn that reading your also nutjob antivaxx's lies on facebook does not count as "scientific research"

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soni w
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2 years ago (edited)

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Haha no FB for me. Ever. So look at Mandatory Vaccine Reporting. Or the CDC or the WHO. All the info is there. Trial fails that still let the product be marketed. Thank f**k I don't have Facebook because I guess I would be as stupid as all you ignorant fools. Look 20 pages in on your web searches. Ask questions. Look at the real numbers. Read the articles from parents who have lost kids from vaxs. Research immunologists against vaccines, they're real doctors too you know. Nutjobs are people who do as they are told instead of making an INFORMED DECISION. You are a failure as a parent if you don't research and just take the word of someone who's taking your money.

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Jill Bussey
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So when her poor babies die of measles, whooping cough, polio, or mumps, what will be her excuse then? Or worse, one becomes ill and dies, leaving the other baby handicapped for the rest of its life?

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Marilyn Ransberry
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah well my father in law didn’t believe in vaccinations for his kids either. Result: scarlet fever for one leading to kidney failure ,a kidney transplant and a lifetime of suppressing his immune system and other side effects ie skin cancer and heart problems from the drugs he has to take to stay alive. My husband. He did vaccinate his cattle though.

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Ryan Deschanel
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You cannot respect a country in which parents can let their children die in the name of "liberty" because they only believe in prayer, crystals, omepathy or other sorts of bullshit.

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Parents support thier kids joining the armed forces for "liberty", they even still praise the military when thier kids come home in a box. Americans fuckn loovve Liberty. So you'll support an idea of liberty that kills for sport and money, but not for parents who'll decide what they think is best for thier kids. Yeah right. Fuckn Americans and thier twisted logic

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Donald Holder
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tell me this when/if they are 18 months and been to daycare everyday for 5 days a week. 8 years and been to public school for yrs 5 days a week, 18 years old graduating from high school and working a job for 2 years AND Never vaccinated, never sick. 8 months is nothing. I have 4 children, all over the age of 30. All vaccinated, all alive and well.

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Kristina
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Soni....how old was your daughter when she received the Gardasil vaccine? She's in her early 30's now, vaccine was FDA approved in 2014.....

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soni w
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Australia it was approved in 2006 and rolled out a year later. She was 17 now almost 32. Her reaction to it took less than an hour. Within 3 she was on life support. 7 months in hospital. Up to 200 siezures per day. Everyday. 15 years later. Every. Damn. Day. Alot of people here on this thread wished death for my kids, without actually knowing how close she comes everyday. Because I did the "right thing". And now I speak out about it and I'm sick of it. Sick of the bullshit that everyone assumes I'm a conspiracy nut, sick of being called a liar because it doesn't fit in with someone elses uneducated rhetoric. Like you, not knowing that it was available before 2014, assuming that I'm full of s**t instead if checking it out FFS

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Layla Summers
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How many of these chemicals do you want in your body? These are all the chemicals in the flu vaccine. Ethanol Propyl Acetate 2-Methylpropyl acetate Propanol n-Butyl acetate 2-Methylpropanol 2-Methylbutyl acetate n-Butyl propanoate n-Butanol n-Pentyl acetate 2-Methylbut-3-enyl acetate 2-Methylbutanol 3-Methylbut-3-enyl acetate 3-Methylbutanol 3-Methylbut-2-enyl acetate n-Pentanol n-Hexyl acetate E-Hex-3-enyl acetate Z-Hex-3-enyl acetate Hex-4-enyl acetate E-Hex-2-enyl acetate n-Hexanol Z-Hex-3-enol E-Hex-2-enol n-Hexyl-2-methylbutanoate n-Heptanol Camphor n-Octanol n-Oct-2-enol 1-Methoxy-4-(2 propenyl)-benzene

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BabaBizzle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

8 months on earth , how about when they’re 8 years if they make it that long. Vaccine kids are safer and healthier. She’s a selfish PieceOfShit using her babies to further her own weird agenda.

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Kelzbelz79
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's scares and worries me to think there are millions of children out there who are growing up with stupid people like this for parents.

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Diane Phillips-Herman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At 8 months old her kids haven't been exposed to much either. Give it time.

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soni w
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A central tenet of a free and democratic society is the freedom to make informed decisions about medical interventions that carry serious potential risks. This includes the right to be apprised of benefits and risks—and the ability to say no. The Nuremberg Code of ethics established the necessity of informed consent without “any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion.” Forcing the MMR vaccine, or any other vaccine, on those who are uninformed or who do not consent represents nothing less than medical tyranny.

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Evelyn Haskins
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WOW!!! You got TWO babies to EIGHT month old, unvaccinated! You are a clever woman aren't you!' OR thank all you neighbours who gave their kids t he Whooping Cough, Diphtheria. Measles (etc) vaccines, and had them themseklves as infants!

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soni w
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Evelyn this article is a great read. Might give you a clearer perspective. Not a spam or conspiracy article, but it might broaden your mind on your comment https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccines/japan-leads-the-way-no-vaccine-mandates-and-no-mmr-vaccine-healthier-children/

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Paige Garberding
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, she plans to never let them be around other kids? Oh, they'll get sick alright out in the world. Geez, too stupid to raise children.

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Diane Knight
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A doctor said to a parent that the Chinese government is happy to have the U.S. get weak by having more people succumb to diseases. Winners will those who have the strongest and the most population. I'd call it thinning the herd.

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That's what bill gates said too! Thin the herd. And then he vaxxed a country with an illegal outdated deadly vaccine. Truth. Look it up. Look up what he gave them. Look up what it did 20 years ago and why it was banned across the world. Good ol' Bill!

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Gas Pump (Doesn't) Go Brrrrr

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Perry Sologia
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a kid working at a gas station, if the power failed, you cranked it by hand. Lot of years ago, mind

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“We Follow Biblical Rules”

“We Follow Biblical Rules”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The word “homosexual” wasn’t added into the Bible until 1942. Can we not hide behind religion to excuse our homophobia, thank you.

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Can't Say Much, Can We?

Can't Say Much, Can We?

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Complete Slam Dunk From This Dude

Complete Slam Dunk From This Dude

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