Arguing with a MAGAt

[Takket]

I have a rule with MAGAts.... don't engage, you only waste your time, and they enjoy "owning libs".

And yet I'm ashamed to say every once in a while I break my own rule.

Tonight I was told, after tweeting support to AOC for her efforts to move to eliminate the electoral college, that I "needed to take a civics class".

So I broke my own rule and replied asking him to "enlighten us!"

Now I'm mad at MYSELF.

It is just... these people are so DUMB but also so WRETCHED and it just drives me up the wall.

Anyone else have this problem????

[pangaia]

1. Nope,

I just don't hang with people like that.

[lunatica]

2. You only told him to back his claim

That hardly counts as engaging. You’re doing just fine.

[RazBerryBeret]

3. yes.

it is hard for me to scroll past republican talking points on facebook. especially when they are just lies. I sometimes have to reply.... like somethings are just too much to go undisputed...

[Newest Reality]

7. I know.

Just keep in mind that rarely do you ever change a person's confirmation bias, especially in short exchanges. In fact, you might even be reinforcing their fortress of ignorance because each opportunity they get to react to a challenge fires up their emotional circuits and evokes whatever ideas they have that they think are plausible. Then, they come away with a self-inflicted reward response.

Or, just have a lot of fun with it, be resilient and enjoy the sport of improving your ability to befuddle them using cunning lingual devices like many master debaters.

"Do not argue with a fool. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." - That's attributed to Mark Twain, but I am not so sure.

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubt, while the stupid people are full of confidence.”

—Charles Bukowski

[Meadowoak]

4. Why can't we 'own' them? Most of them know next to nothing.

It's easy to give it right back to them and make them look stupid, not to mention quite enjoyable!

[Maru Kitteh]

6. Right? We need to start laughing at cons for getting "emotional" and being snowflakes.

[sharedvalues]

5. In real life or on Twitter?

Many/most tweets from the right are bots or artificially amplified.

[Takket]

8. Twitter

And yeah I usually remind myself that MAGAts are Putin trolls or bots too

[sharedvalues]

9. Yeah just block

Block on twitter
Talk in real life