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
Hi! I totally agree with you but using words like r*t**ded and raped in a way that's not appropriate is not very helpful! Please think about this next time
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Say what you will about America. But I don't know anywhere else on earth where the powers that be have convinced so many to gratefully defend being plundered. It's kind of amazing.
Estonian healthcare is one of the best in my mind. Every single person who is working or is under 19, is insured. Also retired people. You just pay for your medicine which is also with a discount. Time to get to a specialist is also fairly short. No medical bills. People are not paying idiotic sums for an ambulance ride. To be exact, we pay nothing.
Canadian medicine literally saved my life in the 1970s (blood clot the size of a fried egg near my brain, I nearly died, yadda, yadda, still kicking nearly 40 years later), has helped a great deal with my autistic son (now 33), and recently saved both my hubby's life when he was hit with Stage 4 throat cancer and my Mum when she got bladder cancer. The most I've ever had to pay was 45 bucks for the ambulance ride. Yeah, I'm never leaving Canada!
Portugal here. Three months in hospital with my son. Not even paying parking. And a team of pneumologists, neurologists and intensivists. Going home today. A mini hospital is waiting for him in his room, with oxigen and cough assist equipments. A team of one doctor and two nurses will come by every day. ZERO costs.
I feel like a real comeback would include actual facts on wait times. For "serious medical procedures" with any real urgency, you don't wait. You DO wait if it's not serious or not urgent. As opposed to the American system, where you don't wait if you're rich or insured, and if you're not rich or not insured you either 1) don't get the procedure at all, even if it's serious & urgent, or 2) get it but declare bankruptcy afterward because you just lost everything. Guess which one I prefer?
Because they see how poorly it's run. In theory it's awesome, but in practice not so much. I'm Canadian and I know our system inside and out and it's dreadful for the amount we put into it.
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If other countries can successfully have socialized medicine there is no reason why the US can't do it. Other than the fact that our government is bought and paid for by big pharma and insurance companies.
My friend had an AVM in her brain, once it was discovered she had surgery a week later to have it removed. Absolute emergencies are seen to earlier otherwise you do have the option of going private, which is expensive but cheaper of you have private health cover. At least we have options, we can choose to go public and have to wait and pay nothing or go private with less waiting times and pay a gap fee if you have private health or full cost without private health cover. The longest I waited was 2 years but that was for breast reductions, I paid a TOTAL of $165 and that was for the initial private consultation fee. Medicare covered the hospital stay, surgery, after care etc.
Canadian healthcare is amazing. I had 2 c-sections free of charge. I almost died the second time and the amount of medications they had to give me was also free! I also had a tumor removed free of charge and there was practically no wait at all. So yeah, i'll take my "socialized" medicine any day over american health care avenues
Our healthcare system is garbage. That's awesome you had good experiences, but people are dying on waiting lists for no reason. What's covered and what isn't is illogical. For the amount we pay we shouldn't be consistently ranking in the middle to lower end of the pack for first world countries year after year.
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Hmm... let's see... wait time for serious medical procedures. Well... I suppose that depends on what you consider serious. If it's life/death (ie: cardiovascular, organ failure treatment) - no matter how much $$$ you have - you don't get to jump ahead of those people... also... yeah, you have to wait for your 'serious but non-life threatening surgery'... a surgery that **WILL** happen. In America... if you haven't paid through the nose to *exactly the correct* HMO... or haven't paid ENOUGH (meaning a huge ungodly amount)... what're you waiting for? You're waiting for exactly **nothing** to happen. You don't get a surgery at the end of 18 months.... you don't get one at all. Is this supposed to be better? I'm confused.
When I had my C section, my room was a suite with a view, I had 3 doctors and many nurses checking on me all the time, first class and brand new equipment, anything I need it was there and the best of all it was FREE. So yeah Americans are just jealous.
Canadian here. If you have a life threatening injury and its time sensitive, Canadian Healthcare system is a damn blessing. The only time its really sketchy is when you're at the clinic for something non-life threatening. Wait times can be hit or miss depending what part of the country you're in. (Speaking from experience. Ive lived in Big Cities (Montreal, Toronto) and small ones: Sudbury, Timmins, etc. and the experiences of healthcare aren't the same.
I was bitten by a dog so badly there was a streak of fat hanging out of my arm. Went to the emergency room and had it cleaned up and bandaged for nothing, plus a follow-up inspection the next day, also for nothing. And they gave me a free sandwich when I mentioned that I'd missed lunch. Yeah, I think I prefer it here in Australia.
Australia's system works on two levels. We have public health care which is used for emergencies and general health. If you need elective surgery (eg, for something bothersome but not life threatening) or to see a specialist etc etc you can choose to wait a little longer, or you can go private. We do have health insurance companies, it is an available option for people. Not always a great one (a friend needed a knee reconstruction and in the private system and with full health insurance she was still going to have to pay $45,000. She opted to wait an extra 2 months and have it done in the public system). I do not understand the resistance to a system like this, which would save lives and make a health crisis less of a devastating financial burden on families.
Yo, Sister ! Cheers from the Netherlands, where we all have medical insurance .
Canada does not have good health care, but it is way better then the US. But it is not good, we have big issues and a lot of racism.
unfortunately, it depends where you are. I had amazing treatment in Alberta, but a friend's mom had terrible treatment. Bad in Quebec until I got a family doctor.
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Do the math. Compare the cost of taxes to the cost of capitalist healthcare. Taxes give you better healthcare, and they give other people better healthcare. I would rather have higher taxes and better healthcare.
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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
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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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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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