I haven’t used sexual metaphors to insult others since I was 22.

My advice? Read more books. Or if you have to engage with these dullards, troll them with either falsely reassuring comments (‘That’s a good point. You really showed me how wrong I was.’) or by pretending that you can’t understand them at all (‘What do you mean?’, ‘What are you trying to say?’, ‘What are you talking about?’). They obviously don’t want to learn, so the most that you can do is have some fun with them. Taking them seriously, even for only a minute, isn’t going to get you anywhere. It simply isn’t worth the time.

I can safely say that you’ll learn more about fascism within five minutes of lurking !capitalismindecay@lemmygrad.ml than you will after spending five years in the company of ‘anti‐tankies’. Kindly remind me: who was the one who taught you about the Four‐Power Pact and its purpose? Who was the one who taught you about the Regio Esercito’s persecution of Libyan Jews? Who was the one who taught you about the riot at Christie Pits? Who was the one who taught you about the microstate that voted overwhelmingly to join the Third Reich?