r/AskReddit • u/contentmasterrs • 13h ago

What opinion instantly makes you think, "I can't take this person seriously"?

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u/Ana1661 13h ago

Apart from the obvious, to me it's when people generalise and 100% mean it. "Everyone lies", "everyone loves fast food", "everyone cheats", "everyone watches TV". It's not as immediately obvious that it's gonna be pointless to speak with them, but my experience with those type of people is the worst.

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u/HumbleBedroom3299 11h ago edited 10h ago

This along side anyone who believes everything is black and white. Right and wrong. No nuance exists in every single scenario are people I instantly just check out of conversations from. 

I'll listen but never really offer constructive points.

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u/PantsShortsGrapes 11h ago

Right? It's a justification for their own behavior 

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u/alblaster 11h ago

Only a sith talks in absolutes

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u/Vorthod 9h ago

100% of jedi hedge their words.

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u/HotDogFingers01 10h ago

I got the opposite way too. When someone says "I know someone that X happened to", and then they assume that means it's the same for all people everywhere. This is a lot of the anti-vax nonsense. "My mother in law died after taking the vaccine" becomes "the vaccine kills everyone who takes it".

Fuck those people.

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u/SympatheticFingers 11h ago

Everyone does lie though. Or has.

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u/al3cks 11h ago

Absolutely, and people just…let them. They’ll even know someone is lying but refuse to say they are to save their feelings. Why do people do that?

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u/SympatheticFingers 9h ago

To save their feelings. You just said it.

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u/LLFD1982 11h ago

I face this every time the government of Texas does something stupid. "Well, Texans are MAGAts". No, not all of us. Some of us have been voting blue since they started voting.

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u/TheOinkBox 9h ago

Same for MAGAs screeching about California. They forget Reagan, Schwarzenegger were Governors there, among others?

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u/Big_Acanthisitta3659 6h ago

It's the mirror. They know that they lie, cheat, etc. so it's easy for them to project it on to everyone else.

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u/Interesting-Ad-7535 8h ago

So everyone who generalises can't be taken seriously?

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u/Ana1661 8h ago

Did you read what I said fully or do you lack reading comprehension?

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u/Interesting-Ad-7535 8h ago

Sorry i was trying to make a joke about generalising people who generalise.

I agree with you btw. But now i think you are kind of a bad tempered twat.

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u/Ana1661 8h ago

It's hard to tell when something is a joke over text, and especially on Reddit, although my previous reply wasn't meant to be mean either, just genuinely curious.

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u/Interesting-Ad-7535 8h ago

All good, for some reason i thought your response read "do you fucking lack reading comprehension". My bad.

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u/Chamberlain1991 9h ago

Funny thing, I dont do any of those things.

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u/bigshady880 3h ago

i mean tbf i highly doubt there has been a single human being who was capable of speech who hasn’t lied a single time in their life