cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33433760
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Soviet_Union
99.4% of WORKERS agree that Soviet Democracy is the freest in the world!
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Cowbee is one of the few accounts I've blocked not for their backwards views but for being an absolute terrible person to talk to. I made the mistake of trying to take them seriously and have a discussion, and I received a barrage of guilt trips, insults, and recommendations to "inform" myself by linking to chinese government propaganda. I was called a liberal, a fascist asset, a homophobe (in my first comment I made a joke about sucking Mao's dick, which Cowbee took as confirmation that I am a fascist liberal).
On each of my comments they replied with two or more comments twice as long and then they got pissed I didn't read them all and respond to their arguments (as if there were any).
Honestly I don't think your strategy of posting smug gotchas will work any better. just block that asshat.
I mean, largely I wasn't trying to 'get through' but emphasize that his points were not the uncontested facts he was trying to portray them as to any onlookers.