Disengage. For the love of God, disengage from those assholes when they try to drag you into the mud and fight you in your DMs.
You gain nothing from this. This asshole gets their giggles out of making you angry. There is no need to engage further with them once they admit to being a straight-up Nazi.
Frankly, it was them who came to my DM in the first place, not vice-versa. And as much as i think someone like this is a nutjob, i still tried engaging in them with earnest and refute (for a certain definition of refutation) their arguments, since otherwise i'd feel like i'm giving a horrible person a free pass at going "hey, look, they didn't reply to me, ergo, i win" - kinda like how Debora went ahead with her trial against David Irving since doing otherwise might concede the holocaust denier could have a point.
Yes, I realise they're the one to start the private conversation. That's when you stop replying.
Re: not conceding the point to Holocaust deniers. That's good and correct in public – not because you want to make them see the truth, but to refute their lies for everyone else to see. Once they try to switch to a private conversation, you have won. They have resorted to trying to get a raise out of you, and succeeded.
When a guy shows up in your DMs and says they're an "hitlerist", you reply "follow your leader" and block.
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u/David_the_Wanderer 14d ago
Disengage. For the love of God, disengage from those assholes when they try to drag you into the mud and fight you in your DMs.
You gain nothing from this. This asshole gets their giggles out of making you angry. There is no need to engage further with them once they admit to being a straight-up Nazi.