it’s arguing in bad faith. as in you aren’t actually arguing or debating, they are just seeing to beat you down for not agreeing with them.

lemmy full of these types, despite their claims of being educated and data-driven or whatever. i had someone the other week tell me my citation of data form the USA Labor Bureau about jobs numbers was ‘lies’ because apparently statistics don’t count if Trump is in office… pointed out the data was from Biden to now and they just told me I was an idiot.