Human nature
Imagine you have 2 cows
Totalitarianism/authoritarianism
Socialists are just utopian idealists who haven't received their first paycheck/don't know how the real world works
Explain the origin of money using the barter myth
Climate change related thought terminating cliches that could literally fill the character limit 3 times over
Call them a tankie
Say that tankies always claim real communism has never been tried because they keep moving the goalposts
Show them the reddit front page, /r/theleftcantmeme, etc whatever you can to make the brand of lib you're portraying look as uncool as possible

Then you show them your power level. Make them feel as frustrated as we feel when we speak with their cracker treatbrains. At the very least, from then on if you talk with that person ever again they'll have to think twice before they say some stupid thing you could easily dismiss as sounding like the character you cooked up.

Also, I guess this is just the standard-issue wrecker strategy that some trolls use against us here, ended up recreating that unintentionally trump-moist

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It will probably fail because we would reflexively tried to present a coherent argument instead of just wildly flapping their gums as libertarians usually do.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Well you can make it a gradual thing where you start out talking about the invisible hand of the free market, and as your conversation unveils more and more contradictions of capitalism you start talking to them about social and productive forces, the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, imperialism, etc. Then once it feels right you admit you were taking the piss initially.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

You could also do this with a libertarian but instead of an argument it would be a "discussion" where you outline the points and understand it better than them and then announce the ruse.