Had some fun with this. Rules:
- When a tankie post comes up, post a legitimate, fair argument. Do not argue in bad faith. No matter how nasty the post may be. Legitimately combat the disinformation there by going into their bubble and posting a sane response.
- Watch the responses come in. Especially if the post is on the tankie triad.
- Don’t feed the trolls. Don’t respond to anything, unless there is actually a legitimate attempt to have a legitimate discussion. Otherwise, start a game of tankie bingo to help prevent yourself from responding to the madness.
Suggestions for expansion welcome.
EDIT: well, to the surprise of no one, it’s made its way to the slop community at Hexbear. Aaaand again, they totally miss the glaringly obvious point.
EDIT: since some can’t access the link: https://bingobaker.com/view/9956948
(Sorry for the double post, sometimes I’m too stupid to use the internet)
Other suggestions:
- Before we talk you have to watch this YouTube video
- You’re a transphobe!
- “already been debunked”
- You just hate leftism!
- “NATOpedia”
- Bad sourcing (in particular citing a source that says the opposite of what they say it says)
- Ignoring inconvenient questions
- Controlling the conversation (ex. insisting that a counterpoint is “not what we’re talking about” so refusing to address it)
- Changing the subject
Added some of them. What’s NATOpedia? Wasn’t able to find what that’s referring to.
If there can be a catchy way to make it happen, maybe “Uses a terrible source” could be paired with “Uses a source terribly.” The thing where they cite a real source while insisting it says the opposite of what it says is really notable when it happens.
Unfortunately no way to pair them, at least not on that site. But I’ve added uses a source terribly.
(By chance actually just had both)
https://lemmy.ml/search?q=natopedia&type=Comments&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=New&titleOnly=false
Having an objective source of truth undoes their way of doing things, so they have to dismiss anything from Wikipedia out of hand. As is tradition, their way of doing that is to assign it an insulting nickname so that anyone who brings it up is subject to bullying.
Ah, it’s a belittling name for Wikipedia, got it. Added!
Well that’s interesting, tankies call you a transphobe unprompted? For no reason?
That Slop post already has 172 comments, more than any other on that community’s front page. Must have hit them straight in the heart.
Holy shit lol. And one of the comments calls it rage bait, as if I had posted it in their community. WTF lol.
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