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ProudMNDemocrat

(20,578 posts)
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 07:47 AM Oct 19

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

NCDem47

(3,322 posts)
1. Another one...
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 07:57 AM
Oct 19

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

(20,578 posts)
2. Another good one.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 08:04 AM
Oct 19

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

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

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

Iris

(16,835 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 19

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

NBachers

(19,158 posts)
18. Not just college campuses- also housing and any number of other veteran-preference programs.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 10:20 AM
Oct 19

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,578 posts)
8. Another comeback..."Nor are we a DICTATORSHIP like North Korea!"
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 08:42 AM
Oct 19

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

SunSeeker

(57,470 posts)
20. Yup, they like to say America is a republic, not a democracy.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 10:57 AM
Oct 19

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

(114,415 posts)
35. I add the FF chose a republic form of government and chose democracy
Mon Oct 20, 2025, 12:16 AM
Oct 20

to make it functionable.

Republic is the car frame. Democracy is the engine.

sop

(17,338 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 19

KS Toronado

(22,964 posts)
12. I tweaked yours a little
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 09:54 AM
Oct 19

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

flvegan

(65,713 posts)
13. Engaging MAGA on Facebook of all places.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 09:54 AM
Oct 19

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

Just my opinion, y'all have fun though.

paleotn

(21,457 posts)
14. Very good. I saw a car with 2 bumper stickers the other day.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 09:56 AM
Oct 19

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

(517 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 19

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

Ray Bruns

(5,938 posts)
22. "What parts of Democracy and the US Constitution do you NOT like?"
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 04:05 PM
Oct 19

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 19

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

(1,156 posts)
27. I often see the statement: "We are not a democracy, we are a Republic".
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 07:34 PM
Oct 19

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

lastlib

(27,492 posts)
28. I once shut one down with this:
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 07:44 PM
Oct 19

"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

(1,920 posts)
30. THEY NEVER
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 08:10 PM
Oct 19

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

(40,078 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 19

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

(23,400 posts)
32. He promised to release the Epstein files. What changed?
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 08:21 PM
Oct 19


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

alimbalt

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

I would have replied: the Second Amendment.

ReRe

(12,164 posts)
36. You're brave
Mon Oct 20, 2025, 12:55 AM
Oct 20

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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