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freddyvh

(276 posts)
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 03:25 PM Dec 2017

i hate arguing with trolls online

but sometimes it's fun

lets the stress out

having a "discussion" online with someone who claims Hitler and the Nazis were socialists....all due to the name of their political party.

he denies the nazi party was in favor of business over individuals.
he denies they got their ideals from the italians
he says racial superiority is a tenet of socialism
as well as expansion and armement

sometimes i do weep for the future of this nation if this is the extent of education the masses are receiving


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emulatorloo

(44,245 posts)
1. Dunno, what's fun about it? You give em facts, they deny them and move the goalposts
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 03:29 PM
Dec 2017

Then they put words in your mouth you didn't say, and act victimized when you call them out on it.

Then they baselessly accuse you of being a racist, sexist, etc.

Rinse and repeat

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
2. he says racial superiority is a tenet of socialism
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 03:30 PM
Dec 2017

Nazis were all about power and racial superiority.........is this person for or against socialism??

Siwsan

(26,308 posts)
3. I wear it as a badge of honor when they block me
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 03:30 PM
Dec 2017

I always find it skeevy that they are posting in a liberal FB group, anyway, so off come my gloves.

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
7. I know and they call us the snowflakes. Most of them on twitter I'd say 98% of them just block me
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 03:45 PM
Dec 2017

....they don't or can't reply. So you wanna call me a snowflake....that's fine you can, but just note that I'm the SNOWFLAKE FROM HELL.

brewens

(13,634 posts)
4. One I use is real American (preferably Illinois) Nazi's. Show him vids of what they say
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 03:37 PM
Dec 2017

they are about. No liberal messages there.

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
6. Oh yes it's a great stress reliever...but not everybody can do it. I have a 'gift' for this sort of
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 03:43 PM
Dec 2017

thing and shut them all down...one by one. I use a lot of humor and hypocrisy highlighting...I'll sometimes start out pretending to be one of them. I have not met an alt reich troll that I could not handle. I rue the day that happens because I really don't know what I'm gonna do.

 

freddyvh

(276 posts)
8. ha
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 03:51 PM
Dec 2017

when they start using gay slurs, i come back onto the topic of their mother.

that really sets them off

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
10. Contrary to popular and trendy urban myth, Hitler also expanded gun ownership
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 04:02 PM
Dec 2017

Contrary to popular and trendy urban myth (oddly enough, a myth authored by America's own Wayne Pierre of the NRA), the Weimar Republic (which preceded Hitler's Germany) was much more strict in its allowance of gun laws.

Hitler greatly expanded gun ownership via his adopted of the 1938 Gun Law which deregulated the buying and selling of rifles, shotguns and ammunition. It made handguns easier to own by allowing anyone with a hunting license to buy, sell or carry one at any time. (You didn’t need to be hunting.) It also extended the permit period from one year to three and gave local officials more discretion in letting people under 18 get a gun.

The also did a bang-up job in keeping guns out of the hands of criminals (which included the gay and Jewish communities, making them de-facto 'bad guys with guns,' the typical end-all argument for the slow-witted).

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