Wierd, ain't it? I would add that everything eventually ends in an appeal to force or consensus of opinion. Difficult for a rational person to swallow, save at gunpoint.
But of course! Force and opinion are their two favorite arguments.
But it always starts out with a gratuitous assertion on their part which they presume to be true, valid, and substantiated simply by virtue of having been stated, of course, by them. They seem to think that burdens of proof do not apply where they are concerned and reply to any request of substantiation by acting as if doing so is below them. After this initial failure, it becomes timely for us to post contrary proof of their original claim anyway, to which they respond with absurd semantical games of denial and excuse making. The proper response there is to remove the cover of words under which they are hiding, and all of a sudden the tune changes. Now, they tell us, we are wrong ad baculum for losing the war and ad populum by way of the majority consensus of uneducated dupes like themselves and those that they fool.