Brandolini Nails It

Why I don’t engage in debate or, more accurately, dick measuring, dominance displays conducted in a metaphorical turd infused mud pit (AKA Twitter or other, similar platforms).

Brandolini’s law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage which describes the difficulty of debunking false, facetious, or otherwise misleading information.
 
The law postulates that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than required to produce it.

“Liars prosper” is an equally effective way of expressing this.

AND

Dicks Law: When liars prosper, truth dies. In the absence of truth, monsters rise. (source)

This brain-free, posturing, charade of discussion has always been with us. Some folks, and I’ve known more than a few, just like to argue. Possibly this is their form of therapy. Raging, throwing verbal rotten vegetables they’ve heard on FOX, OAN or from their fellow Berniebros, gives them wood—they feel alive.

We must admit that our opponents in this argument have a marked advantage over us. They need only a few words to set forth a half-truth; whereas, in order to show that it is a half-truth, we have to resort to long and arid dissertations.
~ Frédéric Bastiat

Pertness and ignorance may ask a question in three lines, which it will cost learning and ingenuity thirty pages to answer. When this is done, the same question shall be triumphantly asked again the next year, as if nothing had ever been written upon the subject.
~ George Horne

The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance… How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!
~ Mark Twain 

Or, as has been widely paraphrased:

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

Then there’s the Gish Gallop

a rhetorical technique that involves overwhelming your opponent with as many arguments as possible, with no regard for the accuracy, validity, or relevance of those arguments. For example, a person using the Gish gallop might attempt to support their stance by bringing up, in rapid succession, a large number of vague claims, anecdotal statements, misinterpreted facts, and irrelevant comments. (source)

Related, when a semi-sentient Argue Addict senses he’s losing, he will often switch to another topic, beginning another supposedly related, doomed battle. Spare me.

My way of coping, when I absolutely can’t manage to keep my yap shut, is to mock. Confronting these disingenuous twats (or sincerely believing stone suckers) with reality, with facts is pointless, a waste of time.

They’ll believe what they need to in order to survive in their incredibly insecure skin.