Trying to argue with conservatives.
All that they’re great at is detouring, distancing, playing down, doubling-tripling down, disassociating, strawmen and more illogical fallacies. They can’t take up an honest debate unless there are rules in place that gives them any outs from being pressed when confronted with questions they can’t give truthful answers to.
Trying to clarify someone who misunderstood words, especially ones that are clear and concise. Either they have poor reading comprehension are responding to ‘what I really meant’ and in either case they will continue to do it over and over. I still try because of holding out hope that someone will realize they misread something as simple as ‘I like dogs’ to mean ‘I hate cats’ but I don’t think it has ever been successful.