By baiting, I mean posting deliberate dog whistles, often as crude proxies of what they fear and hate, and set off what is sometimes hours of chud barking in that area, whether it's a game's lobby chat or Discord or whatever.

Examples I've seen include old and exhausting shit like "did you just assume my gender" and "check your privilege, shitlord" 4chan greentext-tier staleness, but sometimes they can get slightly more cunning and insidious, such as portraying themselves as farcical LGBTQIA+ people then announcing an intent to do (conspiracies/crimes that chuds accuse LGBTQIA+ people of here) and keep up the whistling until every chud is barking across the site.

I do play some online games and calling out bait sometimes works, but it's still exhausting when a cooperative game shuts down because some chud starts a hate rally and effectively shuts down the game's cohesion for a while. joker-gaming

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    For extra points, if you are stuck in a small space with people like this, repeat the same joke over and over to run it into the ground and absolutely spoil it for them permanently, like a dad intentionally misusing terms like rizz so their kids will find it cringey and they'll immediately abandon using those words from that point on.

    Holy shit this is based. If people generally don't like leftists, we can take whatever they do and make it "uncool".