Whoa. I just fact-corrected someone on DU and, instead of digging in deeper, they agreed with me.

[Bucky]

I'm a little taken back. I expect more hysterics and rhetorical theatrics from an internet discussion board.

Usually when I point out someone's inaccurate hyperbole, the response is to double down on their factlessness ("Well, I watch a LOT of PBS and I've seen incontrovertible evidence of alien influence on our Bill of Rights in dozens of documentaries--documentaries, might I add, with British-sounding narrators!&quot or they to try to justify their wild arguments with spurious lines of logic ("Oh really? And do you know just how many people have died of lung cancer since 1960? Far more than Hitler killed in the Holocaust, buddy-boy! And so, objectively speaking, second hand smoking is far worse than Naziism and Stalinism combined.&quot .

Instead, however, one logical DUer today defied all my predispositions and simply conceded the point when confronted with facts. Frankly, I don't know what to do with this moment.

Perhaps I'll cry.

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Change the world 1 person at a time. n/t

[AverageJoe90]

2. Glad to hear that! =)

Unfortunately, I haven't had the same luck, generally speaking. I don't know what it is about me, really, but, for some reason, it's always been a lot harder for me to win people over with objective facts & reasoned opinions, even with loads of evidence supporting them.

[11 Bravo]

3. PM exists for a reason. They might have enjoyed hearing from you privately.

[Bucky]

5. I couldn't find a way to phrase it w/o sounding sanctimonious or self-important

And I didn't want to spoil the moment.

[whathehell]

4. Are you sure Hell hasn't frozen over?

Enjoy the experience...It may not come again for awhile.

[cali]

6. that's hardly unique

yesterday someone called me on something I put in my OP and I, gasp, thanked them for calling me on it and changed it.

[Uncle Joe]

7. When I see that, this song plays in my head.

Thanks for t.he thread, Bucky

[cui bono]

8. I agree with whoever said a pm would have been appropriate.

I've both seen it and done it before. Glad you have seen it now as well.