I've been there.

I was so frustrated that I taped my banana to the wall!

Decrease in traffic, which reduces revenues. Was that supposed to be a trick question?

We learned in the 1940s that you can't compromise with Nazis. Then we forgot all about it and now we've got Nazis everyfuckingwhere.

Too bad we didn't do what Germany did after WWII, but after the civil war, and educate people as to why being uber-racists is bad. Instead we gave them the electoral college so they could have more voting power than they deserved.

We're the only country which still has an electoral college and guess what? It's a fucking shit show which only serves to let shitty people have an outsized voice in government.

Also from Louis CK:

His dick out at inappropriate times

It identifies as GACHA.

Did US Intelligence Agencies hack the national timekeeping agency to set their clocks back 10 minutes in order to make it seem like everything was running late?

If that were true, we'd have nothing to do. Emitting orders of magnitude more CO2 than volcanism makes us a big deal.

"Not really any different than people who want to believe Trump."

Trump lies more than any three of them combined, and that is different. The difference may be only one of degree, but it's still different, and your accusations of sycophancy are a poor disguise for yours and based on unfounded assumptions. Run along and preach false equivalence on behalf of a fascist traitor dictator rapist elsewhere if you must, I'm not buying.

There is some evidence that secondary education in China is mostly wasted. Grades and degrees are often used as status symbols but the actual work is often unrelated to their education content. (That's a problem everywhere, but more so in China.)

Some lie more than others. Fox had to pay a $787m settlement for lying about voting machines. Internal emails made public showed they knew they were lying to gain ratings.

(Rupert Murdoch has a win-at-all-costs mentality. He'd pit his own children against each other to "spur their competitive juices" but it just created unnecessary family tension. All 3 children admit their father is a jerk that way.)

Some say to "block all home internet-connected devices from children" but that's easier said than done. My kid had MacGyver-like ability to find internet gizmos. I suspect they hacked into neighbor's wi-fi, as we changed house passwords twice. (Or bartered with a sibling or stayed with friend).

Critical thinking skills should be included with the 3 R's: Reading, (w)Righting, (a)Rithmetic, and Reasoning.

The number of logic fallacies that pundits and trolls use is staggering. Typical examples:

1) A handful of (alleged) members of Group X did bad thing Y, therefore the entirety of Group X is bad. Proportions matter.

2) Guilty until proven innocent.

3) Buzzwords that have no clear meaning: "Weaponizing X", "Grooming kids toward X", "Real Americans", "Elites", "Deep State", etc.

4) If subject matter experts are wrong, then their detractors are right: it's often possible for both to be wrong. (Why one would expect amateurs to usually be better is puzzling.)

5) Slippery slope. The extreme of any viewpoint is usually undesirable, but in a democracy we have to accept compromise and probably should expect it.

'because I don't have a billion dollars to blow tailoring propaganda' /. is free-ish.

"they would start to agree with me as I debunked all the points"

And you've described the Documentary Effect. We often believe and adhere to the documentarian's presentation, that being the only, or latest, set of facts (or viewpoints) we have to work with. Then we hear other points of view, other facts, and we change our minds. Rinse and repeat. At some point the more logical of us settle on an understanding.

You seem to prefer those arguments and facts that follow a particular worldview. Others disagree. This is human. It's the worldview that governs these sorts of discussions, and the beliefs of the adherents.

I'm trying to not close my arguments with a general 'you ignorant &*#$' ad hominem attack, declaring them to be uninformed, ignorant, or just evil.

Good for you. You try so hard to prove us not just wrong.

Great. More of that.

Actually, consider some unions that are the de facto employer of their members. Ponder that for a bit.