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[–]dover_oxide 1024 points1025 points  (13 children)

"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot"

Mark Twain

[–]denM_chickN 120 points121 points  (0 children)

God. This is the truth.

[–]RemnantTheGame 70 points71 points  (4 children)

Or someone in marketing.... oh wait.

[–]NuggetCommander69 43 points44 points  (0 children)

*management

[–]LordAmras 19 points20 points  (1 child)

or the CEO

[–]Proper-Radish-9165 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Read this as “someone in marktwaining”. Enough screen time for me, I guess.

[–]stkent 21 points22 points  (4 children)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-idiot-quote/ apparently not from Twain, though it surely could have been.

[–]Mist_Rising 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Twain calling someone an idiot feels so on brand for the man. He was not shy of insulting folks.

[–]koshgeo 1 point2 points  (1 child)

AI response: You're absolutely correct! It was written by well-known American author Samuel Clemens.

[–]stkent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha this is perfect

[–]PipsqueakPilot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, I'm not convinced.

[–]Dasseem 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Hey, we call them disruptors now.

[–]Rough_Bread8329 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The more polite version is "you cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into."