You will argue with concrete-objective facts and they will reply with generalities and feelings.
Its a pattern -> learn to recognise it.
That might be because the "antagonists" are motivated by something more complex than whatever bulletpoint you're focused on... like the concept of free software. Try to think of an elevator pitch for it, now imagine how that would hold up in an adversarial debate where your interlocutor likens you to a "conspiracy theorist" or "the religious".
> Its a pattern -> learn to recognise it.
Yes, you've perfectly demonstrated the association fallacy, learn to recognize it.
You will rarely be able to dimmish that persons passion and feeling for that team or convince them that the other team isn't as bad as they feel it is.
:)
\2 Also this thread is not about FreeBSD preference, neither is the topic > the topic is about Microsoft supporting FreeBSD in the cloud.
I think you have below average reading comprehension. Adjacent sentences aren't necessarily conflated concepts.
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Not football?