How to deal with someone who feels like they have to be right about everything?

[TsundereMatrix]

I had an internet friend who had to be right about everything. I won’t bore you with the detail but I caught her in many lies. When I prove her wrong she would say I’m too stubborn to admit I’m wrong. On occasion she would tell me I’m right about something but probably 95% I’m wrong in some sense.

Ultimately we had a falling out over something really stupid. I proved her wrong and I am apparently toxic in her eyes. I not happy with myself that I let this go on for too long.

What would you do or what do you do with people like this?

[OneViewpoint]

I gut them. I use their insecurities to dismember their self image and self respect. And then I walk away. Sound brutal? How else do you force people like that to learn? And then there's the fact that I don't care about them. They are useless. Expendable.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I would do what you seem to be doing, as in follow the argumentative route to its absurd end, to the saturation point needed for me to realize what I have to realize. This saturation point is personal, how long it takes to hit it, is personal as well.

[TsundereMatrix]

You’re definitely right. I didn’t realize this behavior until later

[Orion84]

I don't deal with people like that.

It's not worth the headache. I'd just cut them off completely. It won't be your fault; it's their attitude that's costing them friends.

[aaron13547]

Don't feed the pigeons. Sounds to me this person feeds off your energy being right or wrong doesn't matter as long as they have your attention. Stop feeding the birds, and the bird go away.

[ProbablyClueless]

I've found that laughing at them helps a great deal.

[Still-alive]

yeah i'd probably stop talking to her if i were you. don't have time for that nonsense

[glennos89]

I would separate myself from them

[WonderingManII]

I just walk away.

[SuperZonicGUY1992]

Another Maga Karen get out!

[TsundereMatrix]

She isn’t Maga as I’m from a conservative region and she would claim I’m a bigot if I didn’t believe her

[jahaims]

I wouldn't interact with someone like that

[slatyb]

It's best not to.