Hot tip for dealing with tankies:
If you're hearing Putinist trash, maybe conspiracies about the Moscow attack serving US interests too well not to be a secret Western op...
🙃 Don't get mad.
They want you to, but don't.
Just laugh at them for falling for Western psy-ops. Double down on how this is how the West keeps you hooked on its so-called supremacy: by tricking you into thinking no global action happens outside its purview.
Out-hate the West-hater!
It'll confuse the heck out them. 🙂
@MLClark: I just smile at them and ask "How?" and watch them get all lathered up, and then the fun part is walking them around to where they're arguing against their own initial, vigorously presented "facts" and beliefs. When they realize it's happened, that's when I tell them that's why I can't take them seriously. And I am on my merry way.
Been a hobby of mine since college. I do that to libertarians and religious zealots of all kinds, too. And not unoften to Republicans and Democrats. 👽 🛸
Oh, I knew you were good people, TDA. :)
As Kipling wrote in "If--", it is a mark of great maturity "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs".
But there's also nothing in Kipling against getting a little chuckle out of the exercise!