The nice thing about the trick used in this comment is that it basically allows the person making it to just decide to believe whatever they want—and you hardly

The nice thing about the trick used in this comment is that it basically allows the person making it to just decide to believe whatever they want—and you hardly even notice it doesn't contain anything substantive about the real topic at hand or that it carries a personal attack as its payload, right there in the open but under the radar.