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Well, this has got to be one of the only things I've ever upvoted from you, but yea
I've certainly taken that approach with the tankies these days, I used to debate them, now I don't really because its pointless. I reply to them every time, but it's arguments for the audience more than anything.
When I was petitioning for !conservative@lemmy.world to turn it into a satire comm, one kind of comment I saw come up was "if they don't have a comm where we can argue with them, how can we get them to see the light?" (And before anyone brings it up, yes there are other Lemmy spaces (and a whole instance! (HilariousChaos) that are for "serious" conservative comms like !conservative@sh.itjust.works) and I still think it's pointless to try because of what I covered with the opening post, but I was really hoping for at least a rare case of it happening.
Responding once, twice at most, is the best way.
I think we can't convince anyone because if you're arguing with someone online, they're probably trolling you if you are saying something honestly. Internet spaces are so segregated that someone who comes here to argue, is probably not arguing in good faith.
Yeah, I have started to bait and be quite a jerk to people who are arguing in bad faith. But never in a drawn out way. I pop in, call them out for bad faith and jet.
Frankly, that’s how you should deal with argumentative people in real life, tell them you don’t want to play their game and then go find another one.