Bahhhh. These are people I know - this is me plenty of the time - so it's not terribly challenging to satirize :3
The ironic thing is, there are a couple of different people I had in mind when typing all that up, and at least two of them would absolutely loathe each other. Same fact-oriented mindset, completely different political/social views. They would have a long detailed argument full of logic and citations, and eventually decide that the other one would just clearly Never Understand and they were wasting their time trying to explain things to someone so unwilling to see reason.
And if l!Stephen were talking to either of them, he would bend over backwards trying to agree. Until you put all three of them in the same room. At which point the ability to take a deep breath and quietly step back without trying to get everyone on the same page (that need is one of the Geek Social Fallacies, isn't it?) is pretty much a necessity.
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The ironic thing is, there are a couple of different people I had in mind when typing all that up, and at least two of them would absolutely loathe each other. Same fact-oriented mindset, completely different political/social views. They would have a long detailed argument full of logic and citations, and eventually decide that the other one would just clearly Never Understand and they were wasting their time trying to explain things to someone so unwilling to see reason.
And if l!Stephen were talking to either of them, he would bend over backwards trying to agree. Until you put all three of them in the same room. At which point the ability to take a deep breath and quietly step back without trying to get everyone on the same page (that need is one of the Geek Social Fallacies, isn't it?) is pretty much a necessity.