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ProudMNDemocrat

(20,636 posts)
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 07:47 AM Oct 2025

How to SHUT UP a MAGA on Social Media...

While scanning Facebook yesterday and seeing the bots come out slamming the Patriotic Americans who participated in the NO KING rallies, I said this in several responses...

"What parts of Democracy and the US Constitution do you NOT like?"

CRICKETS are all I get. NO comebacks at all.

This could be a useful tactic going forward. Do not be afraid to use this on MAGAs when responding on Social Media.

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How to SHUT UP a MAGA on Social Media... (Original Post) ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2025 OP
Another one... NCDem47 Oct 2025 #1
Another good one. ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2025 #2
This is what happens when you allow generations of inbreeding in a high arsenic environment Gum Logger Oct 2025 #3
understanding poozwah Oct 2025 #9
Good one! Joinfortmill Oct 2025 #4
Which is why I just call them Profa mdbl Oct 2025 #29
I recently shut one down after explaining Veterans were included in DEI programming on college campuses Iris Oct 2025 #5
Not just college campuses- also housing and any number of other veteran-preference programs. NBachers Oct 2025 #18
And a lot of federal jobs from the postal service... Trueblue Texan Oct 2025 #33
Anything that shuts them up (OR down) is a good thing. calimary Oct 2025 #6
The idiots will retort with "we're not a Democracy" BS Freddie Oct 2025 #7
Another comeback..."Nor are we a DICTATORSHIP like North Korea!" ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2025 #8
Yup, they like to say America is a republic, not a democracy. SunSeeker Oct 2025 #20
Good reply and explanation! liberalla Oct 2025 #21
I add the FF chose a republic form of government and chose democracy blm Oct 2025 #35
MAGA will be forced to retreat to private messaging apps so they can openly voice their hatred. sop Oct 2025 #10
Saw another comment. Old Crank Oct 2025 #11
I tweaked yours a little KS Toronado Oct 2025 #12
Engaging MAGA on Facebook of all places. flvegan Oct 2025 #13
Very good. I saw a car with 2 bumper stickers the other day. paleotn Oct 2025 #14
I post Matthew 5:1-10. The Beatitudes. yardwork Oct 2025 #15
Thank You WiVoter Oct 2025 #16
For most Magas, it's not about policy, so much as who they like and who they don't. They don't like liberals, democrats Fil1957 Oct 2025 #17
It is racism Wifes husband Oct 2025 #19
"What parts of Democracy and the US Constitution do you NOT like?" Ray Bruns Oct 2025 #22
Not Maga angrychair Oct 2025 #23
I, for one, prefer to block EnergizedLib Oct 2025 #24
It'll shut 'em up in that subthread Oeditpus Rex Oct 2025 #25
Simple question. Are they pro-Democracy? OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2025 #26
I often see the statement: "We are not a democracy, we are a Republic". thought crime Oct 2025 #27
I once shut one down with this: lastlib Oct 2025 #28
THEY NEVER homegirl Oct 2025 #30
That's just it ... they are bots and they only post trolling anti-liberal comments FakeNoose Oct 2025 #31
He promised to release the Epstein files. What changed? usonian Oct 2025 #32
What parts of Democracy and the US Constitution do you NOT like?" alimbalt Oct 2025 #34
You're brave ReRe Oct 2025 #36

NCDem47

(3,345 posts)
1. Another one...
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 07:57 AM
Oct 2025

If you're against ANTIFA, does that mean you're pro-fascist? ANTIFA means anti-fascist...it was the whole point of WW2 and why the Allies, including America, won.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,636 posts)
2. Another good one.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 08:04 AM
Oct 2025

MAGAts today lack the ability to comprehend so many words because of having limited intelligence.

I found keeping it simple causes MAGAts to actually think about what I said.

poozwah

(397 posts)
9. understanding
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 09:28 AM
Oct 2025

we must remember, however, that everyone of these scholars has done their research. i am so sick of hearing this from these people.

Iris

(16,853 posts)
5. I recently shut one down after explaining Veterans were included in DEI programming on college campuses
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 08:19 AM
Oct 2025

Up until then, he thought the term meant hiring quotas and was only for Black people.

NBachers

(19,228 posts)
18. Not just college campuses- also housing and any number of other veteran-preference programs.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 10:20 AM
Oct 2025

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,636 posts)
8. Another comeback..."Nor are we a DICTATORSHIP like North Korea!"
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 08:42 AM
Oct 2025

Another word MAGAts have to look up for the definition of.

SunSeeker

(57,719 posts)
20. Yup, they like to say America is a republic, not a democracy.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 10:57 AM
Oct 2025

But what they don't understand is a republic is just a form of democracy -- a representative democracy where we elect, by a majority vote, representatives to represent us in government.

There are other forms of democracy, like direct democracy, which only works for very small populations, where the people literally vote on decisions themselves rather than have a representative do it.

But we are a democratic republic, as explicitly envisioned by our founding fathers -- or as Benjamin Franklin put it, "a republic, if you can keep it." The 7 million who showed up yesterday were trying to keep that republic from being destroyed by wannabe-dictator Trump.

The alternative to democracy is dictatorship. Ask them if that is what they want.

blm

(114,439 posts)
35. I add the FF chose a republic form of government and chose democracy
Mon Oct 20, 2025, 12:16 AM
Oct 2025

to make it functionable.

Republic is the car frame. Democracy is the engine.

sop

(17,690 posts)
10. MAGA will be forced to retreat to private messaging apps so they can openly voice their hatred.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 09:47 AM
Oct 2025

KS Toronado

(23,231 posts)
12. I tweaked yours a little
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 09:54 AM
Oct 2025

""What parts of Democracy and the US Constitution do you NOT UNDERSTAND ?"

flvegan

(65,869 posts)
13. Engaging MAGA on Facebook of all places.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 09:54 AM
Oct 2025

Life is too short to give those idiots breath on billionaire Zuck's data machine.

Just my opinion, y'all have fun though.

paleotn

(21,706 posts)
14. Very good. I saw a car with 2 bumper stickers the other day.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 09:56 AM
Oct 2025

A Trump sticker on the left. On the right, an "I believe in the Constitution" sticker. The cognitive dissonance is deafening.

NH tags of course, though we do have a smattering of overt magats on the west side of the Connecticut River.

Fil1957

(601 posts)
17. For most Magas, it's not about policy, so much as who they like and who they don't. They don't like liberals, democrats
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 10:09 AM
Oct 2025

and others on the left side of the political spectrum. They do like Trump. End of story.

Ray Bruns

(6,039 posts)
22. "What parts of Democracy and the US Constitution do you NOT like?"
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 04:05 PM
Oct 2025

Last edited Mon Oct 20, 2025, 05:31 AM - Edit history (1)

My guess would be all of it.

 

Oeditpus Rex

(43,094 posts)
25. It'll shut 'em up in that subthread
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 07:06 PM
Oct 2025

But they'l still spout their bumper stickers elsewhere in the forum, and in many other forums. And it certainly won't change their narrow minds or even get them to think, because they don't have the capacity for that, nor any interest in it.

thought crime

(1,311 posts)
27. I often see the statement: "We are not a democracy, we are a Republic".
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 07:34 PM
Oct 2025

At that point, I remember that it is impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.

lastlib

(27,672 posts)
28. I once shut one down with this:
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 07:44 PM
Oct 2025

"That's the kind of 'thinking' we'd expect from people who get their brains from a bumper sticker. Try again with actual thought."

Apparently he was too lazy for that, because he blocked me.

homegirl

(1,930 posts)
30. THEY NEVER
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 08:10 PM
Oct 2025

respond. I had a wake up moment earlier today and came to the conclusion that at max only 10% of the Trump/MAGA FAITHFUL ARE REAL PEOPLE. The remainder are AI and Russians working for their THIRTY RUBLES and a liter of Vodka every Friday night

FakeNoose

(40,421 posts)
31. That's just it ... they are bots and they only post trolling anti-liberal comments
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 08:14 PM
Oct 2025

Any time somebody challenges them, they can't respond. They've already moved on.

These bots have an archive of nasty anti-Dem things they post anywhere they can get in. I've seen the same things posted word-for-word identically in multiple places, right down to the same misspellings and incorrect grammar.

It's a simple program and it only has one goal: to aggravate liberal-thinking people. I guess the secondary goal is to discourage us into thinking they are everywhere when in fact, they aren't anywhere.

usonian

(23,802 posts)
32. He promised to release the Epstein files. What changed?
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 08:21 PM
Oct 2025


That's a wedge issue. They like to do it.

alimbalt

(39 posts)
34. What parts of Democracy and the US Constitution do you NOT like?"
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 11:59 PM
Oct 2025

I would have replied: the Second Amendment.

ReRe

(12,180 posts)
36. You're brave
Mon Oct 20, 2025, 12:55 AM
Oct 2025

I don't frequent places where they do because I have an aversion to arguing.
But I have a son who lives to get a rise out of them on FB.

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