I like to take a two-pronged approach to trolls when we have the numbers: one person responds in exaggerated good faith for the benefit of the audience, while the rest swarm like pirannha. I try to fill whatever role is unfilled in the moment. If it’s already a shitfest, I become Communism Morpheus, explainer of worlds. If someone is already explaining worlds, I become another harpy in the swarm. For them, arguing becomes like trying to do a math test while 10 people take turns snapping rubberbands at you.

At that point I like to drill into the uncomfortable logistics of their maximalist opinions (are Russian people themselves evil? Why? How about their kids?) but yeah, it usually goes nowhere good

Depends on the subject and my mood. I generally like persuading and arguing though, a lifetime of experience has created a little diseased segment of my brain that’s always itching for a fight

Every conceivable social arrangement is slavery except actual slavery which is fine

There’s no such thing as marital rape because when you marry a person you have a martial obligation to give your spouse sex whenever they want it. It’s literally Catholic doctrine

Critical support to checks notes Nick Fuentes for publicly coming right out and saying that rape is Catholic doctrine

Top tier answer lmao

I have some bad news for you about the current condition and borders of Ukraine

Hexbear disabled downvotes and got way better, one case study

I also dont mind using the downvotes though

Probably because the Americans are fucking monsters that don’t give a fuck. Look at all the mass graves and murder pits in Iraq.

We’ll have bread for a while, true, but how bout the circuses?

These are the same people who will tell you to read 1984 to learn why communism bad

What exactly was Biden supposed to do?

He’s the fucking president!. Pack the courts, threaten to withold reelection support from party members who don’t get in line, do anyof the underhanded power moves that the republicans live and breathe. Play fucking hardball as if millions of lives are on the line because they are.

Of course, the real answer is that he doesn’t care because he’s a thousand year old catholic mummy who lowkey agrees with the killing of Dobbs. This is what vooting blue no matter who gets you.

Recently fired up Age of Empires 3 and wouldnt you know it, Frederick the Great showed up alone to fuck with my settlement. Then two dozen Inca villagers beat him to death

This is how you all act when confronted with your ignorance. Shut down and desperately try to project a facade of being above it all. Is it any wonder more and more people have stopped taking you status quo cultists seriously?

When I saw the upvote/downvote ratio I was bracing myself for some kind of poorly contstructed polemic, but it turns out nothing makes libs seethe like the exact opposite. Well written as fuck

They aint reckoning with shit lmao

I mean the authoritarian persecution was that everyone kept running them out for being hyper-reactionary religious weirdos, and tbh the genocidal settler state they would go on to build has kind of proven their persecutors right

You can tell China doesn’t care about its people by the fact that they did zero covid for months and delivered groceries to everybody, as opposed to the enlightened and humane west, which let that shit rip and killed everyone’s grandma to make line go up

You think the decaying capitalist military empire with a nuclear first-strike policy who’s upper military ranks are all Christian fundamentalist psychos is less worrying?

America is on the downswing, hard, and China is pulling further and further ahead as it is. Who do you think has more to gain by doing something crazy to distrupt such an arrangement? America, like all empires before it, has never taken well to humiliation, and is already halfway through going fash. I don’t think you give enough credit to just how ugly we get when the illusion of fineness becomes impossiboe to maintain.

We only know the fucked up abusive relationship we have with out own government, and our programmed sense of superiority makes us project it outward.