Who is the best debater on KMC on any topic?

There's a new poster named Alpha Debater. Let us see if they can live up to their name.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Robtard is a shitfaced ****er like me but he's also clever and can present his case well when he wants to.

😍

Originally posted by Astner

I'm pretty much the only poster here that follows debate decorum and academic rhetoric.

Your only charm is that you have your own head firmly lodged up your own ass and you're the only one who doesn't see it (cause your head is in your ass, see).

Originally posted by dadudemon
The funniest part is clean-up time after Chewbacca gets done pooping.

YouTube video

Originally posted by Astner
There are plenty of posters mentioned in this thread that are horrible debaters that couldn't tell the difference between a formal and an informal fallacy to save their lives; and that's not mentioning their constant misuse of fallacies in the first place. On the top of my mind we have Omega Vision who didn't know what a straw man was until a week ago, and dadudemon got so upset after one of our debates that he started to reply to ever post I made to start another debate. It got so bad that I eventually had to block him.

I'm pretty much the only poster here that follows debate decorum and academic rhetoric.

For the record: a strawman is when a debater construes his opponent's argument in a way that makes it either ridiculous or easy to refute. If you were a native English speaker, you'd understand that this comes from a notion of a person bringing up a straw representation of an opponent and proceeding to beat it around, with the suggestion that this is how the actual fight would go.

You claimed, and I can quote you on this, that the strawman fallacy is the refutation of a misrepresentation, which is a lot like calling a disease an 'antidote.'

The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" has the following pattern:

Person A has position X.
Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X).
Person B attacks position Y.
Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.

This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply does not constitute an attack on the position itself. One might as well expect an attack on a poor drawing of a person to hurt the person."

Source: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html

So, seeing as you tried to impugn me in this thread without provocation, I might as well throw off civility and tell you to STFU, you ignorant Swede.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
See I recall knowing what a strawman was and being quoted some kind of Swedish mutation thereof a few weeks ago that sounded bogus. Nice try though.

Both what Astner said and what Omega Vision said are the same thing. I'm not sure what the misunderstanding is.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Both what Astner said and what Omega Vision said are the same thing. I'm not sure what the misunderstanding is.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
ignorant Swede.

Redundant

Originally posted by NemeBro
Both what Astner said and what Omega Vision said are the same thing. I'm not sure what the misunderstanding is.

Originally posted by Astner
ego

Originally posted by Astner
There are plenty of posters mentioned in this thread that are horrible debaters that couldn't tell the difference between a formal and an informal fallacy to save their lives; and that's not mentioning their constant misuse of fallacies in the first place. On the top of my mind we have Omega Vision who didn't know what a straw man was until a week ago, and dadudemon got so upset after one of our debates that he started to reply to ever post I made to start another debate. It got so bad that I eventually had to block him.

I'm pretty much the only poster here that follows debate decorum and academic rhetoric.

I'm going to just anxiously sit here and wait until this thread becomes a fierce debate that proves those nominated deserve the title.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Both what Astner said and what Omega Vision said are the same thing. I'm not sure what the misunderstanding is.

This is exactly the kind of posting that makes you one of my favorites. Brilliant.

Originally posted by Jmanghan
Stealth Moose is someone I put high up there.

Where exactly did Stealth go?

SM was a sock of mine

Where is the strawperson (strawman is sexist) thread so we can all judge for ourselves?

Originally posted by Bardock42
Where is the strawperson (strawman is sexist) thread so we can all judge for ourselves?

You are that person, now take your clothes off.

Originally posted by Robtard
SM was a sock of mine

Originally posted by Astner
Explains the smell.

That foulness you're smelling is the doodoo caked on your upper lip

Originally posted by Robtard
That foulness you're smelling is the doodoo caked on your upper lip