The "so" tell for cognitive dissonance.
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Have I taught you that when somebody starts their tweet response in debate "so, you're saying that..." - that is always a sign of cognitive dissonance, and that there are two things to look for.
First is the word "so" at the beginning of the sentence, but that's not 100 reliable - but ninety percent of the time in the context of a debate it is a signal that the next thing I'm going to say is nonsense.
What kind of nonsense? A special kind, right?
Absurd absolutes - that's one where they say "oh, so you're saying that 100 people out of 100 people die from a vaccination", for example. Right? That would be an absurd absolute.
The other is word salad, where you look at the sentence and you say - that doesn't even look like a person who knows how words go together. Right?
And then the other is, as was mentioned, is mind reading - where somebody says "oh, so you're thinking that gravity is really made of chocolate", and you think literally no one thinks gravity is made of chocolate - literally no one - and yet you've read my mind to think that's in there.
Right? That's just a clear sign of cognitive dissonance.