You proved it's what was happening by acknowledging with 20 claps that you kept dancing all around the topics, coming up with a new objections every time I met one of your metrics, not remembering what you'd even said, etc. That's not rational debate. It's what someone who is acting out of their id does.

That's a dynamic that I regularly assess as a part of my "day job" so I have a lot of understanding of it and experiencing in recognizing it when I see it.