"Overkill"? Hmmm, maybe.
Over(-the-top-)kill with inferior firepower?
Over(-the-top-)kill with inferior firepower?
Much too wordy, but this came to mind:
Firing 2 million camels' butts to avoid your argument looking like an empty tent.
[B said:medict [/B](n.) - Pronounced ME-dict. Any press release written about yourself in the third person, and uploaded to unselective conspiracy websites in hopes of convincing the world of your obvious greatness, often at the expense of your rivals. Example: "When Chris Bollyn bollyned himself, he wrote a lot of medicts about it."
I'm not thrilled with "medict", so if anyone can come up with a better word for that concept, feel free to suggest it.
I've been thinking under-the-carpet bombing might do for posting heaps of links in avoidance of proving a factual rebuttal.
And to add the massage-therapy angle, how about myofarcical melease?
Hehehe, even more good ones, Triterope. Your hard work does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.
I've been thinking we need a word for when CTists (and woos in general), when faced with facts disproving their assertions reply by posting a whole heap of links about their theory in general, without directly contradicting the rebuttal. I've seen people refer to it as 'the overwhelm the opposition with links (and text) phase', but one verb/noun would be very handy. I've toyed with 'virtual bombardment' but that doesn't allude to the logical fallaciousness of the act. 'Virtual bombardment of dodgic' is a bit wordy I think.
'Shock and aw' might apply if they did that and also whinged about being called on to debunk their debunkers, but I'm also looking for a word for posting links in lieu of a rebuttal.
Typically pithy contributions from delphi and gumboot.
Pithy?![]()
How dare you sir! How dare you!
* gumboot;2081481 looks up "pithy"
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As you were.
-Gumboot

It's a drug that CTists take that alters their reality so that they see the twoof.