I want to help them with their research, so chapos of the "post hog" and pigpoopballs poster variety, what are your thoughts on counter trolling the fash and the terf? What techniques do you use to identify the foe when they try insidious entry into a community (e.g. how norse mythos got stolen by nazis but witch aesthetic is repelling them)? What level of engagement do you use? Do you know of any other academic writing on the topic?
Yes. Absolutely refuse to engage with their arguments on the facts, just get personal and rude. Call their arguments boring, tell them they've all been tried before, heck, even predict what their next argument will be. The goal is to make them look silly and bully them out of the space, fighting the Gish Gallop is a losing battle. You want people to desire to avoid taking their side because they don't want to appear silly too.
I always roll down my window point and laugh furiously whenever i drive by trump sign people, it gets under their skin so much
I like to ask why they sound exactly like the last guy, and then needle them for repeating shit verbatim that they heard on the TV/radio. Their "hurr u hear that on CNN libral?" routine is projection just like everything else, and they hate it.