We’ve created a generation of chronically miserable shitweasles who feed on outrage and sustain themselves entirely through online conflict.
You know the type. You present them with factual information. Complete with sources, references, peer reviewed studies and they immediately refute it without even reading what you’ve shared.
They’re not interested in truth. They’re interested in the fight.
They sit there seething, chomping at the bit, refreshing their notifications every thirty seconds waiting for your reply to their bullshit so they can fire back with more bullshit.
It’s like watching someone play intellectual ping pong with themselves, except they’re losing and don’t realise it.
These chronically online creatures have turned disagreement into a full time hobby. They wake up looking for things to be wrong about. They scroll through comments sections like hunters tracking prey, seeking opportunities to be offended, corrected, or validated through combat.
You could provide them with a library of evidence, complete citations, expert testimonials, and video proof, and they’ll respond with “Yeah but what about…” or “That’s just your opinion” or some other intellectually lazy dismissal that proves they didn’t engage with a single thing you shared.
But the trick is to just not take the bait.
Don’t get me wrong, I love to stir the pot. I post some really wild memes or just shitpost myself into a new mood. I just don’t do things maliciously (Unless it’s needed)
Although these miserable cunts have nothing else better to do with their lives than deny factual evidence and demand your emotional energy.
They don’t want to learn. They don’t want to grow. They want to drag you down into their swamp where logic goes to die.
The most powerful thing you can do is not reply. Let them sit there refreshing, waiting for the validation of your attention. Starve them of the conflict they crave.
Save your energy for people who actually want to understand, not just argue.
Stephen Walker.