• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    It does, some styles of rhetoric basically require a context of contentious argument, especially if they revolve around mockery/bullying and contempt for reasoned debate, so depriving them of your actual and apparent attention is the best you can do because it leaves them without anything to work with.

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      17 hours ago

      Exactly. They aren’t interested in actual discussion, just trolling. Depriving them of the audience for which to do so is the only practical solution.