Just keep it one or two responses deep and move on if it's clear their only retort is insults, which are equivalent to white noise.
It's still important to rationally engage when you can, because sensible perspectives do go noticed and plant seeds in those who see them, even if the one you're conversing with is belligerent.
Just so long as you don't concern yourself with the last word, their static and noise is irrelevant.
People ARE aware of how fuck shit is, and are aware that in most cases they can't speak up, so the few of us that are make it all the more important to do so.
They want us all to feel like we are alone and cut off from each other. But we're not.
And if they take our sites, we'll do what Aldous Huxley said; decentralize and regroup, and continue to stay rational.
To my dying breath I will not let these authoritarians take my freedom to think.
Just keep it one or two responses deep and move on if it's clear their only retort is insults, which are equivalent to white noise.
It's still important to rationally engage when you can, because sensible perspectives do go noticed and plant seeds in those who see them, even if the one you're conversing with is belligerent.
Just so long as you don't concern yourself with the last word, their static and noise is irrelevant.
People ARE aware of how fuck shit is, and are aware that in most cases they can't speak up, so the few of us that are make it all the more important to do so.
They want us all to feel like we are alone and cut off from each other. But we're not.
And if they take our sites, we'll do what Aldous Huxley said; decentralize and regroup, and continue to stay rational.
To my dying breath I will not let these authoritarians take my freedom to think.