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.
Mmm Spicy
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".
Wow. She probably thinks Pac man is too violent and teaches kids to overeat. Those violent ghosts and all those dots to eat.
Anyone remember the videogame Carmageddon? And how suddenly drivers all over the world were chasing cows and pedestrians with their cars back in 1997? Yeah, me neither...
I mean, even Witcher III lets you make moral choices that benefit you in the long term..
I actually would like some, please! Or are there any websites where you can type in games that you have enjoyed and then get recommendations based on that?
https://apps.quanticfoundry.com/recommendations/gamerprofile/videogame/ !!
Load More Replies...Undertale is great. Genocide had some of the hardest bosses I've ever played. It gives you consequences. And in Deltarune, Susie realizes that violence is not the solution to everything after meeting Lancer. Animal Crossing is wonderful! I'm only on New Leaf but I don't want New Horizons. I got Phoebe's Pic yesterday! I have over 1,000,000 Bells! And I'm hoping to get Stardew Valley soon.
Stardew Valley can get a bit boring... the time limit... I enjoyed Starbound, Terraria, Craft the world too though those are not specifically about collaboration. But even world of warcraft: when you're in a guild you're likely to go fight bosses together. It can become a tight knit community. And in any huge mmorpg's there will be people / guilds you don't like. In wow, you are helping horde. Eh your side I mean. I get her point about avoiding fights though. I once played a game, I think called Glitch, that was a 2d online game, about exploring, meeting people. and.. can't remember more, it was nice but boring. In the end it was mostly farming for energy to do... can't remember. But plenty of indie games on steam that explore an alternative playstyle. About 15 years ago I played "thief" - first person sneaker, this wasn't about killing but about stealth. Loved that too, was quite a new idea at the time. Oh I can go on about games....
Load More Replies...I haven't gotten to play Journey yet, but I love the games ThatGameCompany, the company that made it, have made. My favorite is Sky:Children of the Light, and it teaches humility and to accept people as friends, even if you cannot understand them. It's amazing, and it has amazing, beautifully done graphics and sounds. I recommend it for people of all ages, because people of all ages can enjoy it. Source: I have friends that are 5 years younger than me, friends that are 10-15 years older than me, friends that are 30-40 years older than me, and friends that are 50-60 years older than me. I don't even know how old some friends are, but it doesn't matter because sometimes when it comes to friendship, age doesn't matter. ALong with people of all ages playing, people of all nationalities play, too. I have friends from Australia to China, and from London to South Africa, and friends from Brazil to Canada. Making rfiends is also EXTREMELY easy, because you start off not talking, just enjoying
each other's company, but you can unlock a chat, and upgrade your "friendship levels". It's a truly amazing game, and I have yet to meet a rude or offensive person on there. No one brings up politics, or controversial beliefs, because everyone there just wants peace. If there is a toxic person, their toxicity isn't allowed to spread. People don't hurt them, we smother them with love and compassion and understanding, and we change their ways of thinking so that they are more loving and accepting of people that are different from them. I love Sky, and just TheGameCompany's fan base in general. ThatGameCompany also donates a lot of the money they make to humanitarian charities and organizations to make the world a better place. Definitely recommend playing it.
Load More Replies...Minecraft teaches kids teamwork and the power of imagination. You can build anything, and it's not about killing other players.
My friends and I did have a blast with TNT tho. Literally.
Load More Replies...I... was so addicted to Harvest Moon - I still can't explain how or why selling these ginormous turnips was so... satisfying...
My Time at Portia, Summer at Mara, Kynseed, Spiritfarer, Littlewood...
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
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
Load More Replies...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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