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It’s not all one country doing it either, although they are one of the largest players. Intelligence networks and private citizens from multiple countries and backgrounds have bot farms and have bad actors sowing division online. I’ve noticed that IRL is nowhere near as polarizing as online is framed, even with the most staunch people on the extremes that I know.
What sucks is that all of what some of these bots and bad actors do all day every day is post their same tired points, in different threads and communities. It’s like playing whack-a-mole trying to respond to all of the misinformation. They want to exhaust the people trying to refute them and control the narrative by parroting the same debunked misinformation over and over again. They won’t even defend their points, but move onto some other thing for you to have to debunk.
I think the answer is to be a poster that sets the message from the start, not get caught in the weeds of their bad faith discussions, and pressing them for a change on failures of their argument rather than just defending your own points. They appear to have a stronger frame of view since they are always on the attack in arguments, flipping the script makes their arguments crumble since they can’t defend them.
It can feel overwhelming once you realize the scope. No wonder humanity seems to be struggling more and more with mental health.
Once I start feeling tired or exasperated with someone like that, I know it's time to block. Speaking of, does this site have unlimited blocks?
It definitely does, I tried my best for months, but it didn’t make enough of a difference unfortunately. It does makes sense that so many are struggling. If it was just online problems then that would be one thing, but people are trying to have their basic needs met which further causes problems.
I think blocking is important, if you’ve responded to their misinformation and they move the goalposts, I would call them out on it and then block them right then. That’s a great question, I haven’t been here long enough to personally, there might not be a cap though since I couldn’t find a reference to one upon my searches.