Unacceptable irresponsible and negligent to lock serious feedback topic without a relevant response

#299 🤣 absolutely ciphoning though be the way to go!

🤣 and you claim you had nothing to do with it.....

.....not whatsoever part of that garbage bunch.... no, not you..... lol 😂 welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Time SHALL TELL

we shall see

Ahh yes, I had actually forgotten that you had decided I am a paid employee of some clandestine group that is meant to destabilize the world . Well, add that to the list of crazy.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 no......... not lil ol you... nah

Hey.... lol perhaps you and I could meet up one day for an armwrestle, you down? Dio?

🤣

You know my handlers would not allow that. They are very specific about it in the briefings. Am I going to risk my 7 figure salary for funsies? Project Chess Incursion is so close to final completion.

just lmfao

🤣 have them come along

We do not speak of the lizard people . Ever.

interesting debate going on here

This is what happens when you believe in lizard people:

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/13/1027133867/children-dead-father-claims-qanon-conspiracy-led-him-to-kill

Perhaps the best possible example of why crackpots tossing around conspiracy theories is *not* harmless.

That turned dark too soon. Dang dio, you're in a mood today.

Not particularly. But mentioning lizard people was a perfect lead-in to exactly why it's not good to let the crazy run too freely. It's too on-the-nose to let go by uncommented on. I'll be honest and say that WTFricken seems a lot more "Hale-Bopp comet and tasty applesauce" than "Q-Anon and spear guns". The latter is about externalizing hatred for something as a political tool/agenda, the former is about not being able to handle the world and needing a savior.

Not that I disagree but this reminds me of the carrot vs stick argument between sam and Brian

I have seen that video.

I subscribe to the notion that you cannot nicely convince everyone of everything. There's a threshold, and when you reach it, nice goes nowhere. This is especially true for people who grew up in an insular environment with a curated and narrow education.

Now, it's true that pointedly opposing those people who do not respond to nice arguments does nothing much...in the short term. But I have seen trolls I schooled here on other websites, years later, arguing for things I agree with using arguments I made against them when they held the opposite viewpoint. Not that I am one of those people, but in the interest of fairness and perspective, I have been party to this myself, here on the forums. TheGrobe convinced me of something and I changed my stance on it 180'.

It doesn't mean I just go around trashing people. You will never see me say anything along the lines of the video title above. What I will do , for example, is pointedly call out something and not let the poster slither away from it in retreat by getting vague and backing off their claims but still posting more new junk on the same subject. I won't let them off the hook the way most people will, and that bugs them. Over time, it bugs them more and more, until it's not fun for them to post nonsense anymore. They will learn to research and support opinions with real information, or, they will be 100% stubborn for a decade and finally give up posting entirely because it's just not fun anymore for them to toss out unsupported claims right and left when somebody is always quick to calmly and directly point out the lack of support, the past iterations of the same issue, etc.

Either way works.

In the case of trolls that promote religious or political subjects "on the sly", calling them out is more a matter of social pressure. The rules of the forum are generally clear enough, so there's zero chance they can "win" such arguments. It will always boil down to "even if what you are posting were to somehow be accurate/correct, you are still in the wrong for posting it here, and ethically you know that.". The belief that evangelizing to people who don't want you to do so is a good thing because you know better than they do what they need falls apart completely.

Hey, I have a dark story about that, too ...

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/01/747368557/the-story-behind-john-allen-chau-an-american-missionary-who-was-killed-while-wor#

I thought it was an interesting video to listen to. Does he have any more videos worth watching or listening to in the background?

You're hereby knighted tenacious dark dio