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Don’t bother man. No matter what you say people will come up with excuse after excuse after excuse. “I love the car but…”

• dragontamer 5y ago
  Each discussion I have, my arguments grow stronger. I see what works and doesn't work, and prepare for the same discussion to happen say... 2 or 3 months from now. Everyone else forgets about the discussion, and I hold onto my strengthened arguments to hit them again. It takes a few years, but over the long term, my arguments evolve into a stronger form, and people start to listen. ------ I've learned that while the Internet's memory is long, people's individual memories are short. You have plenty of opportunities to improve your arguments over time. Its no different from what Elon is doing here: leveraging the shortness of the typical person's memory to make his marketing tricks work.