3. Challenge them on outright lies.
As already described, my friend’s original statement was that she was frightened by the elections. Her other friends had chimed in with how terrified they were, and one said he wanted to move to Canada. (All this with no specific reason why – just that the elections were “scary”.) Shortly after the somewhat unhinged “what are we debating” post mentioned above, original friend posted this howler:
“It might be wise to re-read my original post. I never mentioned the ‘other side’ or being afraid of ‘enemies.’ Just frightened by election results…which, incidentally includes some low voter turnout and a number of other concerns that have nothing to do with a particular republican or democrat.”
Hahahahaha. This one’s too easy. Low voter turnout! It was making people want to move to Canada! Needless to say, I was forced to point out the painfully obvious disingenuousness of her statement.
Next: details, details…
