• psvrh@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Don’t bother trying to refute the garbage coming from Trump’s campaign. That’s the mistake we made in 2016 and kept making until very recently.

    That just makes it seem like it’s worth refutation, plus it gives the original request more oxygen.

    The Democrats’ current strategy of just outright mocking Trump and his sycophants is the right one.

    • dactylotheca@suppo.fi
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      5 months ago

      Exactly. Treating conservatives like adults is a losing game; they lie about everything, and refuting every lie that comes out of a conservative’s mouth is wasted time. More often than not, everybody who’s not a conservative can tell they’re lying so fact-checking gives them no extra value, and conservatives will literally never read fact checks anyhow