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Ah yes, the party that wants you uneducated, that's the party that will save us all. How did I not see it before?
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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
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"Don't feed the trolls" sounds great in theory, and for your own personal sanity it makes sense. Unfortunately ignoring people like this doesn't make them go away though. Instead, the lack of any pushback to their vitriol and lies just pulls in even more people and makes their message stronger.
You can push back.
Just not on their turf.
If you were in Nazi Germany, would you push back in a forum personally set up by Hilter to make you look like provocateur then cut you off? No. That would be stupid, and even worse, validates the platform with your presence.
You go somewhere else. And bring people with you.
Also "don't feed the trolls" was killed by 4chan's networked harrasment campaigns, and said 4channers wanted to reinterpret that saying as "leave the internet", "don't do the thing we harrassed you over", etc.
exactly,