i feel like counter-trolling is an essential skill that kids online aren’t learning and it’s kinda worrying
like back in my day, the day of online forums, learning how to trick someone in to getting themselves banned was an essential skill. if you could tell someone was a chud, you would ask them short, leading questions and watch them get frustrated and post longer and longer rants until they said something that would catch a mod’s attention and get them banned and/or at least publicly humiliated.
and guess what? that’s the exact same tactics the alt-right use now. these people are exclusively acting in bad faith. every interaction these people post online is done with the intention of getting someone to respond to them so they can screenshot the massive paragraphs of text and laugh
so, what’s the solution?
dare ‘em to post dick pics.
don’t acknowledge the content of the stuff they post. if you see someone trying to engage you in bad faith just dare them to post pictures of their penis until they either get frustrated and leave or get frustrated and do it. either way they lose.
this is the tactic used by the fans of a podcast (that i haven’t listened to) called the Chapo Trap House, and 4chan’s /pol/ users fucking HATE them. they hate Chapo Trap House and think they’re crazy because Chapo Trap House fans refuse to engage in meaningful debate and repeatedly demand dick pics. they get frustrated and leave. it works.
Chapo Trap House is full of Communists that deny Stalin did anything wrong and his famines were good for everyone
raiden, trying to break the silence and make some small talk: so….. vamp huh? i get it, cuz hes a vampire haha iroquois “not solid snake” pliskin: actually? its because hes bisexual, you fucking idiot. you clueless homophobe. raiden i thought i could feel safe around you i really did. really thought i could let my guard down around you and do this to me?
German tank Pz. Kpfw V “Panther”, k.o. by SAU SU-85 under the command of Lieutenant Kravtsev. Ukraine, 1944. The photo was taken from the driver’s hatch.