I briefly considered responding to him but then remembered my "don't argue with idiots" rule
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I try to imagine every possible way that conversation could continue and every single one of them was more depressing than getting myself to shut up then and now, which was also bad but like, least bad in context
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I usually avoid doing it with politics since it's pointless to argue about people's religious beliefs. I'm still easily drawn into long arguments with idiots though. The main reason is it bothers me that they're misleading other people. It doesn't happen in a private message.
The worst is trying to distinguish between stupidity and trolling, but it ends up not mattering since I'll want to stamp out the misinformation anyway. On the positive side, if I think it's trolling, sometimes I can just ban them or threaten to do it.
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Also not very fun is trying to figure out which of my followers are Nazis and what to do about that since I don't particularly want to piss them off. They recently came and posted some nasty images in a Matrix channel with aliases matrix.org admins took from them.
right. my view here is: changing minds of people in public (where many people may read what you're saying and be affected by it) is essentially propaganda, because none of us are driven purely by logical inference. so you essentially want to do counterpropaganda. /
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is arguing with an idiot in a public forum an *effective* way to do counterpropaganda? sometimes it actually is, so sure, why not. but usually it isn't, and your time would be more productively spent doing something else.
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