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   Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 05:52:48 JST Another Angry Woman

   genuinely enjoyable evening in the beer garden talking to a public school educated conspiracy theorist who I wound up to incandescence by politely asking questions such as "who do you mean by *they*" and letting him get progressively more flustered

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 06:11:31 JST Another Angry Woman

     • goatsarah

     @goatsarah oh god yeah, especially as that coincided with their era of flirting with weird military aesthetic

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     Mirrors And Stuff (mirrorsandstuff@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 06:15:06 JST Mirrors And Stuff

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     • goatsarah

     @stavvers @goatsarah weren't they weirdly pro-brexit too?

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 06:22:05 JST Another Angry Woman

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     • Dan Q

     @dan yeah, that's exactly the way to play it, "no, no, I'm interested in why you think that, because you clearly know more than me"

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     Dan Q (dan@m.danq.me)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 06:22:06 JST Dan Q

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     @stavvers I approve of the effort, but in my experience they just try to fob me off with a reading list (or more often nowadays, a list of videos I "should look up on Rumble"). Maybe I should push harder at trying to get THEIR answers.

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 06:22:07 JST Another Angry Woman

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     imo one of the most fun way of dealing with dickheads is to just keep asking them very polite questions to supply more detail and they get so distraught when the dog whistles aren't landing but you also aren't arguing with them

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 06:32:44 JST Another Angry Woman

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     one of the most fun ones I ever pulled was asking transphobes, very sincerely and with tons of clarifying questions, to explain to me, a humble bimbo, how they'd make sure only ~biological females~ could use the ladies toilet. ultimately, most of them gave up told me I should use my words and say I was "a female" then blocked me when I told them they'd just described self id