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Common wisdom is the worst, but it's easy to twist it around in your favor if you're reasonably well-informed. I used to always ask my friends "what is one of Trump's non-immigration-related policies that you disagree with?" and they never had an answer. Of course he had plenty of bad policies, but that question I think helped lay bare that a lot of the animus against him was driven by a sort of negative enevery field constantly emanating from the press.
The other useful tool was to bombastically deny certain claims. For example, "I'll bet you $100 to $1 that I can find 10 different news articles in left-leaning newspapers that say that that's not true." Most of the time the confidence was enough to make them rethink the claim, which was convenient because when they did call me on it I looked terribly argumentative finding the sources.
Due to the media's strong slant, there will always be plenty of real-world facts, that are easy to verify, that most normies are not aware of. Stick to those facts and you can be unassailably confident about things that damage your counterpart's narrative. I like to argue viciously about the facts of what happened, then be a lot more reasonable about their interpretation.
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