Every once and a while you have to spill your thoughts onto a pixelated screen and when you do so, you are bound to get a contrary opinion. This has happened to me a lot in the recent past (mostly because I’m an argumentative twit). Let me share with you a few tips in order to make arguing through a textual medium a little easier.
1. Type fast. You almost always have to get something out before someone else or you sound like a dumbass. Sometimes you put something out there that needs obvious clarification and it is just fodder for your foes.
2. Ask questions about their position. Often you can easily expose their obvious house of cards by just poking at it a little. Who needs to build castles when everyone else has cardboard boxes?
3. Smilies can soften the blow. Just take this interesting phrase: “Your idea is the stupidest piece of crap ever.” vs. “Your idea is the stupidest piece of crap ever 
”. How is this possible? I actually am incapable of being offended by any phrase that has a after it. WTF? A smiley could make Hitler almost seem nice.
4. You can’t win!! Ha, I forgot to tell you. You can’t win. And if you say you can, you are wrong. Care to argue that?
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