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Just no stopping this M'fer? I am just so disgusted I want to scream!!

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So something occurred to me last night. The MAGA and GOP republicans are getting all their jollies simply saying they don't believe our evidence and facts. Not just news links and data, but many have told me that they don't use google because it's (proven to be) liberal biased. As if a library could be biased.

Now nothing new here to anyone who's had "discussions" with MAGAs online. They pivot from Biden to Hunters laptop to Obama to trans athletes without skipping a beat. Meanwhile open Trump family corruption, media censorship and monopolization, unqualified and inept heads of government departments, the blocking of the Epstein Files release, the litany of broken promises, the endless grifting for every dollar, etc etc etc... it’s a long list, get called "fake" despite overwhelming evidence.

Now having been in these conversations for 14+ months I have long ago learned to just say my piece, with links to evidence, get called a few 4th grade school yard insults in return and wave bye 👋 , Block, and move on.

What occurred to me is why don't we just block from the start. Like as soon as they ask a baited question, or not even that, as soon as we become aware that they're republicans, block them immediately - without discussion of any kind. After all, they're not listening anyway and if they're still in the cult after all that has happened already - they're not leaving no matter what we say.

Let them stew in their limited doctored media soup and leave them to repeat their BS to each other over and over. Do not feed the animal.

Now I started my own subreddit in January which I won't mention here because some subs have rules about self promotion. Part of the reason for starting it was that I was always stepping on some rule or another which was confusing because my sole goal was FDT and the boat he came in on, but I digress. The one rule I have that is added to the reddit-wide rules is that there is a zero tolerance policy for MAGAs. As soon as they show up - banned and muted from my sub -forever. They are, after all, insulting and destructive and bring absolutely nothing to any debate - ever. My subreddit, I'm happy to say is a pleasant and informative space, despite the grim nature of current politics.

So last night I posted a video of someone passionately arguing against the blatant racially motivated redistricting in his state. It went over well on reddit, I also posted it on Facebook (I know, I know, but I have my reasons for still being there) But I got a long list of republicans with all the usual what-about-isms, denials, false information, and straight up racism. I was going through them in my usual fashion, commenting back with facts and links to evidence and copy and pasting 5 second google search answers because they're obviously incapable, when I thought - Why?

So I just went through the whole list of ignorant bigots and blocked every one of them. They will never see any of my posts again. **Then I thought - What if we all do this immediately and - every time?** No comments, no arguments, just cut them off from this posts information and all further information. Leave them in silence.

TL;DR - What if we block and ban and cut off every MAGA, GOP dimwit as soon as they make their presence known across social media? Not just from our personal social media, but if moderators of all political subs, pages and sites did the same. They would be starved of talking points and information not spoon fed by their own one dimensional media. Hell, you can't even directly quote or describe half the things Trump says or does in a pro-Trump group without being banned.

Cut off their oxygen!