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Murdered by Words

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Responses that completely destroy the original argument in a way that leaves little to no room for reply - a targeted, well-placed response to another person, organization, or group of people.

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[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Ah yes, Christmas trees and gifts, the most christian of traditions. Who could forget the iconic parts of the Bible where Jesus suddenly explained the advent of Capitalism and how we should use this one day for even more Capitalism. Kinda lazy of those early christians to wait about 1600 years before they started decorating trees just like the Bible always said to - no wonder God fucked them over so much in the past.

[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

That's a much better answer than "nobody loves you."

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Pagan holiday highjacked by Christians.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pagan solstice>Roman celebrating Saturnus adapted to include Galec and Germanic cultures>Christian Jesus born but not really so how accurate do we think we've recorded this word of god?

[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jesus fathered himself after raping his own mother.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

That's pretty Zeus

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

How high are you?

Edit: oh boy. I simply referred to that they wrote hiGHjacked and not hijacked. It was a word joke, a pun.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago

Doesn't matter , he's right. Are u unaware???? That's hilariously sad.

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

Why do Christians participate in the pagan traditions on Christmas?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This isn't murdering by words, and it's probably the least convincing response possible. A good response would be to point out the origin of the date of Christmas and what Christmas trees originally meant, which has fuckall to do with Christ as they are pagan in origin.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The impression I get from this sort of screenshot is that people on Twitter are mean spirited and kinda dumb

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

That's a pretty good summary of the platform honestly. You're just missing how everyone thinks they're a novel genius of sorts

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How do you know nobody loves them? It's just a hateful response that makes us look bad

[–] MechKit@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

Agreed. Better to point out that is was not originally a Christian holiday, and is now more of a consumerist one.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I always love when people downvote an objective truth (your comment in this case) that has no sign of a weird agenda or anything bad about it, simply because they feel personally attacked because they liked something that is easily criticized