• DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Oh dear, that’s probably it for now, this lib has reached the point that they will simply regurgitate the same circular statements again and again. A well-coordinated team of comrades can keep them going like this for hours, but it will just be repeats of their previous statements over and over again, so there’s nothing new to learn here.

    I am not following their preferred script and it upsets them, they want me to play their games, and have run out of new ways to try to get me back on their preferred track. Here we see the real tragedy of liberal brainworms. They simply believe that insisting upon something enough will make it so, that just repeating the same things over and over give them more weight, make them more correct, as if simply stating something enough will make it true.

    Remember these important lessons when dealing with a lib online:

    #1: Determine if they are acting in good faith. Libs with fewer brainworms than this one can be quite agreeable and willing to listen and learn. While dunking on libs is fun, it’s important to make sure they choose to reject information first. Always prioritise education and knowledge initially, even if they are being rude.

    #2: Don’t follow their script or play their games. Once it has been established they aren’t interested in learning, a lib is only interested in one thing: stroking their ego. By playing their games and agreeing to their rules, even passively, it shows the lib that they are in control, that the “tankies” will bend over backwards to give them attention. Do not treat them with the respect they demand to be treated by, it will never be shown in kind. Give them the respect their smug attitude deserves.

    #3: Hypocrisy is the beating heart of the liberal. The reason we should not play their games is because they will insist upon rules for us, that they will then ignore. Like a child obsessed with winning a board game no matter what, they will make up “rules” as they go along to ensure they win. Even if you follow their rules at first, they will inevitably change them at some point so they can still “win.”

    #4: Related to the previous point, the primary function of a liberal’s online “debates” is ego stroking. All they care about is “winning.” Not discussion, not learning, not information, not understanding, simply “winning” and if we abide by their rules, they will invariably change them so they can declare victory. Even good faith liberals will do this, which is why we need to make it clear to them that this is unacceptable behaviour if they show it. If they are interested in learning, that includes learning etiquette beyond the liberal faux civility.

    #5: Don’t expect them to change their minds. This may seem obvious, but this goes even for those in point 1, even good faith liberals will still need time to digest information that unbalances and confronts their worldview, we all do. While these rules apply to all liberals, we should be patient with those genuinely interested in learning.

    #6: I forgot one, an important one! PROJECTION. Libs, when dealing with someone not playing by their rules, will simply assert that their own issues and hypocrisy are actually a trait of whomever is dealing with them, in order to protect their own ego. In the worst cases, they will essentially just regurgitate their opponent’s accusations against them, with a “no u” or “actually you do this not me.” sort of attitude.

    BONUS: As I mentioned before this list, a group of dedicated comrades can keep them ranting impotently for hours, this is because libs always have to get last word in. I’ve never seen one who can just hit the block button and let someone else finish the interaction. So as a small kindness to this one, I’ll not be responding to their final comment below (which they made before this edit, which includes both this point and #6, which slipped my mind when I was originally writing this, but the lib reminded me to put it here, thank you lib).

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      9 months ago

      I’m going to stop now because you’ve also been chasing your tail, not engaging with my arguments, but rather calling me a lib because I disagree with you. You would call Marx a lib if he were alive today. Also, why do you treat libs as people below you, have you not thought of the idea that this could be why they disagree with you?

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        Did you read anything anyone has been saying? Cause they’re absolutely correct in their analysis of you. Everything up till now you’ve just refused to listen, you continue to act smug like you know what you’re talking about and don’t even make an attempt to understand any of the concepts being explained to you.

        Talk about being unprepared to critically examine your own worldview.