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>>16049450
Practice by debating cretins online first and then practice on people irl

If you need a book to teach you how to win debates against retards, maybe you are the retard?

>>16049481
Retards can easily "win" debates by just coming up with some nonsense that you've never heard before, rinse and repeat. And it is easy as hell to come up with something that nobody has ever said on a topic before on the spot even if you do something like trade sources beforehand. You can always come up with some ridiculous hot take on the spot and your opponent will be caught stammering. In fact it has a name: it's called the Gish Gallop. Even though it's only named after one guy it is literally a feature of every extemporaneous debate, with almost no exceptions.

And it's hard to extemporaneously respond to tons of ridiculously stupid quips because they'll take 30 seconds to make some asinine claim and it'll take 3 minutes to debunk that. But then in response to your 3 minute rebuttal they'll come up with some novel argument which, even though it's probably bogus, you haven't heard before and so you can't smoothly or elegantly respond to it given time constraints. Honestly there is almost no point to having an extemporaneous live debate. The format is flawed and subject to massive abuse, and almost always just becomes a little kangaroo tribunal.

>>16049450
>>16049515
I guess this means my recommendation to OP is that you can debate retards in retardly fashion by Gish galloping the entire debate. That's what Duane Gish (a fundy fucktard) did to win tons of creationist-evolution debates.

Why do you want to debate retards? You're supposed to ignore them.

Are you retarded....?

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>>16049450
He looks like me

>>16049450
You'll lose to "retards" with high Wisdom stats.
Rather than debate, reach dialectics.

make your opponent as emotionally unstable as possible, annoy him

>>16049450
trick question, all debaters are retards. if your goal is to convert, confrontation doesn't work. if your goal is to fight, buy a gun.

Debating is for brainlets

Fight stupid with stupid. Respond to terrible arguments with shitty memes and one-liners.
You win a stupid conversation by ending it while your mood remains intact.

>How to debate retards

The fact you're even asking this question says a lot op.

>>16049515
Gish galloping is a sophist tactic but it's not truly a retard one. You can do it yourself. You need to wake up and realise that you're getting trounced by Machiavellian cynics and you're the retard.

The biggest brain move of all is to not care what people think and shitdisturb until you're told to drink hemlock. Winning the approval of others is pointless because people will choose who to agree with based on ape-like logic like who is prettier, taller, more popular, more successful, and so on. Being right and being successful are two entirely different things.