You can't "fight them with facts". They don't want facts - WHAT THEY WANT IS TO SEE YOU GET UPSET AND RANT AND RAVE AT THEM. You see, the goal is to upset you - not discuss issues that you disagree about. The goal is to watch you explode! Sooooo, everytime you take the bait and start trying to give them "facts", they will change the subject and start attacking Bush on some other issue. Check it out for yourself.
The best way to fight them is to ignore them. I have written down a list of those who are the worst abusers of this little game - and everytime I see them gathering at a thread and starting their game - I just leave the thread.
Remember, these people do not want to discuss issues - they want to upset you - that is the whole goal they are after. Then they go other places and tell people how nasty FReepers are.
The ball's in your court - you just don't have to throw it back to them, and you can't have an argument if there is no one to argue with.
Excellence in posting. "A time to rend and a time to sew." A time to curb our cybertongues (disruptothreads) and a time to let them go (salt o' the earth threads).
"You can't "fight them with facts". They don't want facts - WHAT THEY WANT IS TO SEE YOU GET UPSET AND RANT AND RAVE AT THEM. You see, the goal is to upset you - not discuss issues that you disagree about. The goal is to watch you explode! Sooooo, everytime you take the bait and start trying to give them "facts", they will change the subject and start attacking Bush on some other issue. Check it out for yourself.Remember, these people do not want to discuss issues - they want to upset you - that is the whole goal they are after. Then they go other places and tell people how nasty FReepers are."
The Communists called that tactic "AgitProp".
Agitation. Propaganda.
The purpose of Agitprop is not to be right, honest, or accurate, but rather to upset the enemy's comfort zone. It's Machiavellan, and it's immoral.
Check out a daily thread on FR with pictures of Bush from that day, and you'll see the disruptors flock to post their AgitProp, sometimes with such flimsy excuses as "you Bushbots think that everything is just fine."
More professional societal disruptors seek to disrupt our comfort zones in far more insidious ways, such as telling us each day that some new food is dangerous to our health, telling us that gobs of welded junk are really statues of "Art", that it is our fault that Third World nations have poverty, that we owe Reparations for the acts of people centuries ago, etc.
Decades ago the Communist Party correctly identified that America's key strong point was its nuclear family. To attack this strong point divorce was promoted. Promiscuity was promoted. Drugs were promoted (no coincidence that drugs are most prevalent in Communist-leaning areas such as college campuses and inner-cities). Child support was promoted (serves to encourage divorces and out-of-wedlock procreations), etc. This is AgitProp on steroids.
And that's what we're up against today...