Stop with the personal attacks

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Never been any different, in a debate about whatever topic, if one side gains the upper hand with their arguments, the other side will always try to compensate their weaker arguments with personal attacks and insults.
That's why you can see most of the right wingers in here using foul language when talking about the left, they simply don't have any civilized arguments for their belief.
Same thing in the movies and series section when they are insulting anything that looks remotely "woke", you'll rarely see anyone doing that without foul language, in fact for them alone the word "woke" is used as an insult already.

I think the trick is to not take the attacks personally, because they don't actually know you, and what does it say about them that they're so offended about a difference in opinion? Them name-calling is confirmation that you don't need to take those names seriously. Also, idk if it's just because I grew up with siblings, but I find it pretty hard to be offended by strangers' opinions of me, like what names would actually hurt your feelings?

Try the ignore feature on this site.

It works well.

Problem solved 😀

I already have that troll on my ignore list. Like the post above suggests, just click ignore. Bada bing bada boom! Problem solved 😀

When discussing things, facts need to be brought forth, and not emotion. As soon as you get emotional about something, then a person must rather refrain from talking, otherwise it's just a constant slugfest, and all reason and facts go out of the window.

You came here to start an arguement...

will this be just 5 minutes, or a full half hour?

This is broadly true but all too often a humiliated poster will try to shut down discussion by pretending to be a victim of ‘name calling’.

For example, Flimflam (filmflaneur) might say he’s being insulted or the victim of ‘ad hom’ when he is described as a pretentious low IQ cult victim, when in fact he is merely being… described.

It’s important to draw the distinction between genuine objections to name-calling and thinly veiled Leftist language policing to evade uncomfortable truths.