Some people just looove talking. Like your auntie Betsie who just created a FB account and floods it with posts on chemtrails, or that entitled anti-masker who believes wearing a face covering impinges on their rights. Or many other loud ones on social media who can’t miss a chance to spread some misinformation on drinking bleach to prevent COVID-19.
But the world is the place of karma, and if there’s yin, there’s always yang. That means that if you throw some nonsense out there into the world, it may come back and hit you like a boomerang.
To show you how it works in practice, Bored Panda compiled a mesmerizing collection from the witty subreddit called “Murdered By Words.” It’s a prominent corner of the internet entirely devoted to put-downs, comebacks, and counter-arguments.
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Shots Fired, Two Men Down
I'm Gonna Take The Surgeon's Side On This One
Disabled Parking Should Only Be Valid During Business Hours 9 To 5
Being in an argument, whether voluntarily or not, is one of the most emotionally draining situations you can get yourself into. It raises your blood pressure, and you may feel trapped by the opponent trying to prove their point no matter what.
It gets even more frustrating when the person you’re arguing with is proving a point that, in your eyes, doesn’t make any sense to begin with. Whether it’s anti-maskers, anti-vaxers, flat-earthers, or conspiracy theorists, anyone can have their own opinion, but as such, everyone can stand up for their own beliefs.
Luckily, there’re some tricks you should know to winning an argument. According to Susan Krauss Whitbourne, a professor emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, you should start by knowing your facts.
“How many times have you made a claim about some piece of trivia only to realize, as soon as you’ve made that claim, that you’re completely wrong?” Such a situation doesn’t lead you anywhere and gives your opponent a straight shot to winning.
Now Sit Your Ass Down, Stefan.
Find A Different Career.
Apparently, It's Impossible For Women To Be Smart And Beautiful At The Same Time
Reminds me of a time i went on a speed dating: 4/5 dudes straight up told me that they're intimidated with intelligent women. The only one that did not - was a self sufficient, creative, ambitious and overall impressive guy
Seeing other person’s perspective may also help you in an argument. “You don’t have to agree with a foe in order to see his or her perspective,” says Susan.
“However, if you want to win an argument, you do need to be able to see the world the way your opponent does. Stepping into the mental set of those you argue with allows you to figure out what’s influencing them.”
If you figure out what’s triggering the person you’re arguing with, you can direct your focus there and showing a little empathy never hurt anybody.
The Fact That He Never Removed The Post Surprises Me
That Backfired
Murdered By Kindness.
And the third thing is to remember that “Becoming defensive is one of the worst ways to win an argument.” Letting your opponent see that you've dug into your position with no other alternatives may lift the argument from bad to ugly. Moreover, if you let the other person realize that you’re open-minded, even if you're pretending to be, the argument may resolve itself.
It's Never Just About A Cake
Just Pulled The Lever To The Verbal Guillotine.
It's the same distinction between them being blessed with a fruitful marriage, where immigrants breed like rabbits.
On A Comment Thread About UPS And USPS Workers
People that are condescending about other people's jobs are usually parasites with no job at all.
Well, When You Put It That Way...
This Guy Wants All The Cake.
Wise Advice!
Cut The Shit Lady. You Chose The Bathroom.
She shouldn't have said gender neutral ,if she was gonna make a sexist comment. It's like god can u even read
I Love Arnold's Wholesome Murders
It's funny how it's always the people with fragile egos accusing others of being snowflakes, when they themselves are visibly half melted in outrage.
If He Were Here He'd Consume These Morons With Fireballs From His Eyes And Bolts Of Lightning From His Arse
Yellow Tape Around Her Body It's A Fucking Homicide
Amen. Speaking from NZ and Australia I just laugh at how retarded the Americans are in this topic. Raped by your insurance companies and begging for more
Good Old Meghan Mccain
The Ramsays Has The Best Insults
Don't Defend Corporations, They Will Not Return The Favor
This is a famous old case, still worth bringing up occasionally, as many people never questioned the "scamming from poor corporations" line.
Murdered By The Word Of God.
That's Just How It Is Though, Isn't It?
An Effortless Genocide
A lot of immigrants work in jobs that others don’t want to do, majority have come for a better life and will take what they can, they have to start their lives all over again and they are not picky like many of us westerners (especially the privileged). They often take the lower paying jobs like trolley collectors, taxi/uber drivers, food delivery drivers and fruit pickers etc. What a lot of people don’t seem to understand is that a lot of these immigrants are well educated but their qualifications mean nothing because of where they are from and studied so they have to do it all over again.
Very Strange, Indeed
Yeah who wants to go to have a raging know-it-all bigot at a party. No thanks.
Your “Logic” Deserves A Slap In The Face
Homophobia Is Manmade
Thanks for the Jewish perspective! I have seen the first one so often, but the second one is a very new perspective. Thanks for the share!
Taken To School.
Murdered By Laws
Trump wouldn’t know what ethics was even if it slapped him in the face.
A Better Headline
I mean I am happily married even though we both lost our job in corona and now live in a church community house. Screw the idea of having kids though, they’d have to sleep on the floor of the games room or something, and I wouldn’t want anyone’s life to start out like that.
Short And To The Point
Murdered By Numbers?
Maybe Not The First, But Definitely The Most Famous
More specifically, first Innocent brown man killed publicly by a police state while his homies could only stand powerlessly and watched.
Kill Theirs Or Educate Ours?
It's the same boring song that Republicans sing every time. Why invest 50 billion in education when we need that money to buy tanks and develop nuclear bombs? Because obviously having the power to destroy this entire world 5 times isn't enough....
Does It Make Sense For You Now?
Ain't No Right Way
Same here! Not everything is as suspicious as you people seem to think!
Is It True
Maybe they think it's part of the uniform? Like typical blue/green "medical color" doesn't really do anything but it's part of the image?
The Aunt Looks Like Such A Nice Person
When you have alcohol problems and are in a divorce but still feel entitled enough to lecture people on how they should live their life.
Roll Tide!
I Lol'd Hard
Were they any steel toilets nearby? That would have given them a shock
Holy Hell! Call The Morgue
Yuck, why not just say your room is getting a bit stuffy and whiffy so please air it out. No need to go into such detail.
Say It Like You Mean It
That Moment When An Anti-Vaxx Mom Is Called Out On Facebook By Her Son's Pediatric Nurse
Sadly only the Anti-vaxxer lies will be retweeted, adding some more misinformation to the huge pile of BS that's already on the internet.
Video Games Cause Violence
"No thank you, I'll keep playing chess where I get ahead by sacrificing my own peons to murder their horses bishops peons and queen".
We The People
Why Do Old People Insist On Doing This?
You Can Disagree With An Opinion, But The Math Never Lies
It's this kind of "math" that leads Americans to believe that in "Socialist" European countries people pay about 125% of their income on taxes. And that's why healthcare is free.
Murdered With One Word Almost 3 Years Later
Really Weird, Isn't It?
"Teen fends off attacker with scissors" would roll better off the tongue tho.
Turned Into Pork Rinds.
I Know, I Know! It's The Second One, Right?
This Tomi lady apparently even wrote a book and is a former television-host..
That's Tough.
Dealing With The Consequences Of Your Actions
Or Just Stop Being A Dick At All, Really
I agree! Acne isn't something that's easy to prevent. Stop being an asshole!
Songwriter Murders Stepmom
The First Guy Was Sooo Close
New Zealand
Half Truths Are All Lies
And with an universal healthcare in the long run costs will go down because people won't wait till they need an expensive emergency operation to visit a doctor. Most Americans would go to a garage if their car feels strange when they are driving it, but they won't visit a doctor when their body feels strange even when they are just sitting in a chair.
Dan Wootton’s Worst Take
correct me if i'm wrong, but right side looks to be scallops to me, which is a seafood. So vegetarian at best, for one. Two, my God that soup looks sooooooooooo good
Fuckin' War Criminals, I Tell Ya
Yeah Science Sucks...
Fact. The US had a pandemic response team, but the orange buffoon dismissed them as being SUPERFLUous.
They Also Have Poor Swordsman Skill
And Then There's Kanye...
I feel like, as a human, even Kanye has more things going for him than Trump, and I only know three things about him.
Trump Supporter Jokes About Taking Food From Bernie Supporters.
I supported Bernie. I have a gun. I don't worship it but I've got it.
What’s Scarier Than Measles? Antivaxxers.
I remember a time before vaccinations. I think you should get a vaccination for anything you possibly can - why suffer/die without reason? But, as most adults had had the disease in childhood this generally only affected children. In the western world with good nutrition etc complications were exceptionally rare. Deaths DID happen but they were rare. But if a vaccination is available why would you take the chance?
Pretty Much Murdered Himself
So Apparently Tarentino Is As Savage In Real Life As He Is In Reel Life
That Generation Just Doesn't Have Their Priorities Straight.
This Chick Spews The Most Outrageous Stuff
Unless you were fighting to defend your country on its home soil, you weren't fighting for your country. You were fighting for your country's politicians.
Boomer Murdered For Shitty Take (Resubmitted With Censoring)
Yes, It's To Refrain From Common Sense
Trying To Relate To Their Viewers
YouTube is part of the Google moloch. You know: That friendly search engine that would never sell your data and keep your privacy protected....
Choosing A Mutual Fund > Paypal
To be fair, letting your gran help you with knitting/sowing/ ... would be a nice social engagement for her. Or your gramps in many countries, he'd have learned that and ironing pretty well in the army.
Percentages Are Just So Confusing
Yes the ever emerging "But we have more people so we can have more death people before our situation is just as bad as yours!!!" Because somehow 220 000 death people isn't bad when your country has 320 million people?
Classic Flat Earther
This Is What This Type Of Parenting Leads To
Ah yes, children, those little humans who are your prisoners and who have no human rights according to the Association of Crazy Controlfreak Parents.
Jim Mcgovern Is Brutal Af But Honest Words.
He still has 3 months to mess up the US and boy, will he mess up the US when he loses the elections.
Two Can Play That Game.
Trump had nothing to do with that money. It was my money and Congress gave it back to me for a while.
Hello 911? I’d Like To Report A Murder. The Weapon? Facts.
New To Reddit. Hope It Belongs
If my hubby opted for a sex change then we would likely seperate BUT I would still love him. That wouldn’t change it is just the love would be very different. In saying that though, leaving someone over a hypothetical like that is just stupid.
Didn’t Think That Was Going Anywhere Until It Went All The Way
Not sure why they're arguing with a dead alcoholic wryly comic writer but whatever floats their boat.
Props To Will And Jaden Smith
It’s like some people think celebrities aren’t actual people with hearts or feelings etc. there are posts shaming celebrities for complaining about the pandemic like just because they have money they have no right to complain. Well they are humans too, they feel things like depression, anxiety, fear, sadness, etc just like anybody else. Money doesn’t make you immune or a robot.
Millennials Are Destroying The Eating Industry
i'm a millennial with a "decent" above-average salary in my country. i take of my senior mom. pay medical and utility bills. pay for transport and cooking gas. after all the mandatory expenses, there's little left for "luxuries" like eating out. in a country where onions and tomatoes cost more than OTC vitamin pills and most antibiotics, something's definitely fishy!
Tear Gas Civilians, They Bring Gas Masks. Wow What A Coincidence.
He's Gonna Need A 21 Gun Salute After That
Freedom Seeds, Anger Pipes And Boo-Hoo Water
Be Careful Who You Mess With
Working Class Tales
Username Checks Out
Hey, trackpants aren’t stupid (don’t know what ultraboosts are), trackies are the comfiest pants ever.
We Should Totally Trust The Billionaires To Tell Us How To Run The Economy
Whoops, Matt Walsh.
As long as "Being too smart" is a valid reason to turn you down for the police force things won't be getting any better.
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She'd Like To Speak To The Manager
And with that knowledge Trump tried to declare Antifa a terrorist organization. Because it's really an outrage if Neo-nazi's and white supremacists can't hold their rallies without some Anti-fascists counterprotesting.
Now *that* Is Bravery
Yes, Do Tell Her
This was a BP post and most people agreed that without any context or background information it's impossible to say something sensible on the matter.
The Irony
Choosing Gets Murdered
Guy Finds His Bil‘S Post Of Recently Getting Married And How He „flirts“ With Women
Boomer Gets Roasted On Twitter After Saying The Word "Boomer" Is The N Word Of Ageism.
Shocking...especially With Apple's Record On Protecting The Rights Of Their Chinese Factory Workers...
The left side is too small - can't read what is this burn referring to
Friend recently ranted to me, "Dems are going to make us socialist! I don't want any socialism!" so I replied< "Give up your unemployment, your SSDI, your parents' Medicare and social security benefits, and oh yeah, your medicaid." Strangely, she had no reply to that.
That was amazing. I’m going to use that on all of my conservative republican Christian friends
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Friend recently ranted to me, "Dems are going to make us socialist! I don't want any socialism!" so I replied< "Give up your unemployment, your SSDI, your parents' Medicare and social security benefits, and oh yeah, your medicaid." Strangely, she had no reply to that.
That was amazing. I’m going to use that on all of my conservative republican Christian friends
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