Fascists and wannabe authoritarians are being emboldened every day. It’s partially the fault of everyone else and their apathy and complacency surrounding them.

I’ve begun taking a new approach where I don’t even bother entertaining these authoritarian talking points as I’ve seen them for what they are “an attempt at a gotcha argument disguised as a reasonable debate.” Nowadays I just straight up point out that the person is arguing in bad faith and connecting their talking points to the methodology of authoritarian camp propaganda, trolls, and ultranationalist sentiment.