There were times when it ended up like this on Twitter. I now just mute people when I see where it's heading. Three tweets and then the mute button. I once fought the climate change deniers for two weeks, and that's when I discovered how the conspiracy theory mind works, which forced me to rethink my own conspiracy theories. The deniers would get personal and be insulting. I was surprised at how low they would go.Another bad time is when I agreed with a science article about overpopulation. Then all hell broke out when the Agenda 21 crowd went for me, but I wiped them out singlehandedly, although the debate lasted on all day. The Covid skeptics and the antivaxers were next. The people who scared me the most were the Zionists, who I felt would kill me if they could. To them it's warfare.I
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There were times when it ended up like this on Twitter. I now just mute people when I see where it's heading. Three tweets and then the mute button.
I once fought the climate change deniers for two weeks, and that's when I discovered how the conspiracy theory mind works, which forced me to rethink my own conspiracy theories.
The deniers would get personal and be insulting. I was surprised at how low they would go.
Another bad time is when I agreed with a science article about overpopulation. Then all hell broke out when the Agenda 21 crowd went for me, but I wiped them out singlehandedly, although the debate lasted on all day.
The Covid skeptics and the antivaxers were next.
The people who scared me the most were the Zionists, who I felt would kill me if they could. To them it's warfare.
I don't get into heavy debates now, I just press the mute button, otherwise I reply.