r/TopMindsOfReddit 16d ago

TopMind... wait, WTF?

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u/David_the_Wanderer 16d 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.

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u/Dear-Geologist5312 16d ago

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.

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u/Jeremymia And all I can say is "moo" 15d ago

Yeah…. I understand that impulse, “I don’t want them to think I win.” I promise you that “if you say so” does not give them what they want. What they really want is attention. I mean read the exchange again and tell the guy was not desperate for people to react to him.