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AZJonnie

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3. I've 'engaged' with wingnuts (e.g. arguing politics) regularly online for over a 1/4 century
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 02:53 AM
Mar 2025

though I've scaled back on how much I will do so a lot over that time.

And that is because no, there IS NO POINT. They absolutely do not respect the concept of 'intellectual integrity', they will not engage in critical thinking, and they WILL NOT debate politics in good faith, ever. They will never admit that you've proven them wrong about something they asserted. They'll move the goalposts, they'll tell you that didn't say something they obviously said, or claim you misunderstood them, they'll call ANY source you use that plainly contradicts their programming 'biased' and therefore unreliable, no matter WHAT it is. Oh, and they love to post laughing emoji's, as if doing stands on it's own as some great revelation of the correctness of the utter bullshit they buy into. Basically the only thing they care about is annoying the fuck out of you.

It's not worth it, unless you find their antics amusing. Even if you do though it gets old, because they are like The Borg, a wretched hive-mind of cult worship. And with what's going on in real life around us, it's hard to laugh about what idiots they are.

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