Originally Posted by Frosstbyte

IL argues, like one Stephen Colbert's media personality, from the gut with, to be fair to him, a generally acceptable level (if sometimes of controversial origin) background knowledge to back up what he's saying. If you choose to engage him head on, you're basically going to be arguing for the sake of argument as he's not going to change his mind and he's unlikely to change yours.

It is was it is. If it bothers you to argue for the sake of argument, you might choose to not worry about it, as you see fit.