I need this pandemic to be over with soon. I'm stuck home & getting into FB fights w/ libertarians

[Bucky]

I'm afraid I might be accused of child abuse. They honestly make fun of me for using facts in arguments. When I point out they're using their opinions to argue against facts I'm providing links to, they (yes, there's more than one of them, tho thankfully the one who does Tarot Card readings for a living just deleted all my arguments and may've unfriended me) they accuse me of being a sucker for the "corporate press".

If I had a bar to go to or a group art project to get involved with my life would be more fruitful. But I just can't ignore people posting memes and calling them facts.

[SheltieLover]

1. Ignore them

They are uneducable.

Facts are inconvenient for them, so they ignore & deny.

Fk em.

[True Blue American]

2. Not too sure even bars

Are safe today. The lunatics who believe anything are getting worse. Scary. Breaking up families, friends.

I mentioned some good news I heard the other day, heard,” It must have been a Democrat station!” Shocked me.

[gibraltar72]

3. I just tell them they long for a system that has never been and never will be.

[roamer65]

6. ...and what they want to open is a Pandora's box that they will not survive.

Yugoslavia II.

[634-5789]

4. It's FB. Ignore their stupidity. Let the snake eat it's own tail.

[Mabel]

5. Pats on the back for fighting the good fight....

I can't do social media anymore, as their are too many asshats out there.

[JuJuChen]

7. someone forcing you to be on Facebook?

[Downtown Hound]

8. I just laugh at those people right back and call them deluded

And if you really want to get under their skin, call them Trump ass lickers. I've found they really hate that one, since they like to fancy themselves such free thinkers. They really hate to be that they're just brain dead cult followers. And never forget to remind them that you base your opinions on facts and science, and that they should try it sometime.

[Downtown Hound]

9. Self delete dupe

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[lagomorph777]

10. Get off Fascistbook. It's a shithole.

[Celerity]

22. +10000000000000000

[No Vested Interest]

11. Go to Youtube and click on Sing A Longs

Great fun singing the old and the new.
Or click on Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett and join in.

Arguing with dumbheads is not worth the breath it takes.

[Hassler]

12. Get off FB, and your life will immediately improve.

[Celerity]

23. +10000000000000000

[Yonnie3]

13. Things could be a lot worse

A least you've got a hobby that occupies you.

[Hoyt]

14. All sides blame the press. So, in the aggregate, they must be doing a good job.

[blm]

15. Lololol. I feel ya, buddy.

[GoneOffShore]

16. It's like playing Whack-A-Mole.

[haele]

17. Libertarians - selfish a-holes. Why argue with them?

They don't care what you think, they live in their own world where they are the noble hero makers and everyone else who disagrees with them are either unenlightened or takers.

They can be clever, hard working, and cultivate "virtues" that allows their patronage to garner them social brownie points, but ultimately, they are selfish and shallow. They won't admit they may be wrong unless faced with overwhelming and totally engulfing proof of wrongness, and even then, they will come up with a lame excuse to justify their original flawed premise.

Sorry, Libertarianism is the viewpoint of the perpetual teenager.

Haele

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. It is not worth arguing with anyone on FB.

I've adopted the "If you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all" thing my mother taught me. Honestly, about three quarters of what people post I find incredibly annoying, which probably says a whole lot more about me than about them or their posts.

I have unfriended the very few right-wingers I used to be friends with. I have extremely high privacy settings, which also helps. I also finally learned that if some acquaintance from my past sends me a friend request, to take a look at their page. That has saved me a lot of grief.

[Initech]

21. Yeah exactly, you cannot reason with trolls.

Just block, report, and move on. That's what I do. And every time I accidentally might respond to one, I just block instead.

[ismnotwasm]

20. My completely useless, and may I reiterate useless, ex SIL

Is a libertarian. If dumb was peanut butter you could spread him on bread. He’s an abusive loser asshole with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

On the other hand I also have a bright, articulate friend who is also a libertarian and we agree to disagree, and find points of commonality regarding things like war and women’s bodily autonomy.

In general, I find libertarians to usually be more like the former than the latter.