Welcome to the inside of my brain for the last 6 or 7 years. You gotta walk away from the internet for a while after seeing that shit, in my experience. Engaging with them or trying to introduce facts or empirical evidence only makes them REEEEE harder and you're left defending yourself against false allegations of every -ism there is, and on a long enough timeline you will lose access to all your social media accounts and lose friends and job opportunities even if you manage to take the high road and be civil yourself.
They intentionally create no-win scenarios because their end goals involve your total annihilation.
Bow down and give in? "Never enough."
Respectfully disagree? "Lying bigot."
Get rightfully angry after they do everything to fuck you over? "Look see, they were a nazi all along!!"
Its always been a narrative war, and the trick is not to play by their rules, but the hard part is teaching others not to play by them either. That's been their big great push throughout all these years, getting people to accept their terms and premises, because once enough people accept their framework, they win.
That's very rational. I got banned from Facebook and Twitter a few years ago and the rage from dealing with these people (many who I knew and turned on me once I wouldn't repeat the groupthink and would criticize when they were factually inaccurate) was a serious issue. I had IRL confrontations with some of these people, of course they backed down in person. Recently I had a new IP range, so I made a new Twitter for shitposting and was banned within 2 months for calling Michael Rappaport the original Shaun King IE a white trash dude pretending to be black. Social media was a mistake, and I'm convinced that the escalation that's been occurring in the US since the 1960s was brought to a critical mass by Twitter and Facebook. The biggest argument I ever had on Myspace was over some bad poetry I wrote LOL
Welcome to the inside of my brain for the last 6 or 7 years. You gotta walk away from the internet for a while after seeing that shit, in my experience. Engaging with them or trying to introduce facts or empirical evidence only makes them REEEEE harder and you're left defending yourself against false allegations of every -ism there is, and on a long enough timeline you will lose access to all your social media accounts and lose friends and job opportunities even if you manage to take the high road and be civil yourself.
They intentionally create no-win scenarios because their end goals involve your total annihilation.
Bow down and give in? "Never enough."
Respectfully disagree? "Lying bigot."
Get rightfully angry after they do everything to fuck you over? "Look see, they were a nazi all along!!"
Etc.
Its always been a narrative war, and the trick is not to play by their rules, but the hard part is teaching others not to play by them either. That's been their big great push throughout all these years, getting people to accept their terms and premises, because once enough people accept their framework, they win.
That's very rational. I got banned from Facebook and Twitter a few years ago and the rage from dealing with these people (many who I knew and turned on me once I wouldn't repeat the groupthink and would criticize when they were factually inaccurate) was a serious issue. I had IRL confrontations with some of these people, of course they backed down in person. Recently I had a new IP range, so I made a new Twitter for shitposting and was banned within 2 months for calling Michael Rappaport the original Shaun King IE a white trash dude pretending to be black. Social media was a mistake, and I'm convinced that the escalation that's been occurring in the US since the 1960s was brought to a critical mass by Twitter and Facebook. The biggest argument I ever had on Myspace was over some bad poetry I wrote LOL