"Don't be smarmy to people who disagree with you" is, itself, an anti-shaming argument.

Ideology is a very useful tool for understanding politics. A lot of people were convinced by the lie that the Leave campaign wanted to give £350 million to the NHS because they didn't understand that, for the overwhelming majority of the politicians who campaigned for Brexit, their ideology is against the very…

You've just pivoted from "you can't call Brexit voters stupid racists" to comparing them to the electorate who voted for Hitler.

"Are these morons getting dumber or louder?" remains the political quote that best sums up our era. It works for everything!

As a Brit, I've never been clear on it either. I think it started as the first, and ended up as the second.

Yeah, but they weren't "good people… decent people" according to arbiter of goodness Nigel Farage.

Almost all of the Leave strongholds are basically kept afloat by EU funding. I'd love to know where all those UKIP-supporting farmers think their subsidies are going to come from now.

Are Goldblum and Cusack really stranger choices for a blockbuster leading man than Paul Rudd and Robert Downey Jr.? I don't get this "well, at least he makes movies about average Joes!" defence - once an average Joe has survived the destruction of the world by driving a limo off-road, you might as well give him…

How come we're allowed to use the "he's good at what he does!" defence for Emmerich but not, say, Christopher Nolan or the Russo brothers? Is this one of those vulgar auteurist things where we have to praise the stinkiest turds in order to differentiate ourselves from mere fanboys?

See-through raincoats: for the lazy flasher.

Put that in the first person and it could be a lyric from Hatful of Hollow.

You genuinely cannot read a simple sentence someone else has posted and comprehend it, can you? It's medically fascinating.

I know you don't care who I am. That's why you've replaced me with an inaccurate version of myself that you might actually win an argument with.

You keep mentioning who you think I am and what you think I believe. It must be genuinely delightful to live in a complete bubble where everyone is one of the pop-psych stereotypes you imagine are inviolable truth, but it really is no substitute for actually engaging with what people are saying rather than trying to…

I write the books of Game of Thrones! I'm less busy than you can possibly imagine.

Oh, fuck off with your self-martyring. I genuinely regretted what I said because of a post further downthread which made me think differently of you, but every hypocritical, self-pitying, self-important piece of keyboard-warrior horseshit you produce is persuading me it was a fluke.

"That's a grave misinterpretation of what I said! Here, let me make up what you said instead."

It's genuinely maddening how few people who fancy themselves as being "tough on terror" get this: ISIS claimed responsibility because it was a massive PR coup for them, not because they had any involvement in planning it. Do we want to play along with their advertising slogans?

Deleted because I immediately regretted getting involved in this shit.

'Twas ever thus - Dennis Potter shows exactly this happening in the scene in Brimstone & Treacle where the Devil asks the racist father to specify how, exactly, he plans to get rid of the blacks. Unfortunately that is an artefact from the days when the reaction of the media and government to mad bigots was something…