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150 years ago, a philosopher showed why it’s pointless to start arguments on the internet – Wildly inaccurate facts and spurious arguments are unavoidable features of social media. Yet no matter how infuriatingly wrong someone is, or just how much counter-evidence John Stuart Mill explains, in 1869, why you can never win an argument on the internet. pic.twitter.com/pLCPvFgtLT Robert Saunders (@redhistorian) December 27, 2018 Mill …
