Transphobes would have a lot less reach on here if everyone stopped arguing with them and quoting their posts to dunk on them, they don't give a rat's ass about your arguments and enjoy wasting your time.
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I say this about every YouTuber or podcaster who puts the whole fox news clip or Trump skree in their video and let’s it play unchallenged. One, nobody wants to see or here that, and two, You are helping these fascists get their word out.
sep 1, 2025, 3:36 am • 6 0 • view
Read the quote, interject and break it down as you go if you REALLY have too. I've turned off YouTube videos for showing his face for too long though. I hate that man that much.
sep 1, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
any time I'm about to open the reply box on someone like that, I picture the squad commander in my head ordering tactical retreat
sep 1, 2025, 3:40 pm • 7 0 • view
it drives me fkn insane these people are awful on purpose because being awful gets attention. they all forget how many awful people came here and left after a week because they got mass blocked instead of getting engagement
sep 1, 2025, 2:53 am • 128 8 • view
It's also largely how those short video ppl make money, anger drives interaction, which drives advertising profits.
sep 1, 2025, 3:19 am • 44 1 • view
What happened to don't engage, don't (quote) dunk, just report, block and move on? That strategy seemed to work in keeping these ghouls out.
sep 1, 2025, 5:54 am • 38 4 • view
New people joining probably. Quote dunking is a thing on every other social media site, including similarly small sites like Tumblr. People LOVE it, it feels GOOD to dogpile, especially when you feel like it's morally justified. And sometimes it is! But it feeds the troll...
sep 1, 2025, 1:54 pm • 9 0 • view
"Don't feed the trolls" remains universal. Dunk culture has actively emboldened and made trolling SO much better [As in the trolls are more evil.] Just ignore, block or mute, let them starve themselves of oxegyn. Trolling is less fun when you don't have any audience.
sep 1, 2025, 1:56 pm • 4 0 • view
Might have to go back to sharing block lists
sep 1, 2025, 2:47 am • 9 0 • view
If you're mean enough i guess they put you on lists i hardly even see them anymore Presumably im already blocked lol
sep 1, 2025, 3:20 am • 3 0 • view
2025 was a year that Bluesky lost it's way, time to correct it. credit to @lyndonhood for these
sep 1, 2025, 3:02 am • 83 32 • view
I block the fuckers
sep 1, 2025, 3:06 am • 2 0 • view
I'll admit, sometimes I like to play with my food, but you're right, they need to be blocked and ignored, sad that it's happening on here, nowhere is safe from MAGA
sep 1, 2025, 3:08 am • 3 0 • view
we all need to get better at getting under their skin. the strategy is get blocked, not block. siloing them off from us doesn't fix the problem, running them out of town does.
sep 1, 2025, 3:14 am • 8 1 • view
Bingo
sep 1, 2025, 3:19 am • 3 1 • view
Incorrect. There's no amount of abuse that will make you 'win' here. People tried that for years on Twitter and it only made the transphobia spread more. You're just giving them a platform.
sep 1, 2025, 3:53 am • 32 0 • view
They'll run themselves out of town once they realize 90% of the accounts on here have blocked them.
sep 1, 2025, 3:53 am • 29 0 • view
You can't just ignore a problem into non-existence. Ignorance must be answered too.
sep 1, 2025, 3:19 am • 7 4 • view
Other people see arguments too, people on the fence; the genuinely ignorant. Leaving them in an unanswered vacuum just gives opportunity for people to fall into the transphobic pipeline. As they see no counter arguments from our side when we do that.
sep 1, 2025, 3:23 am • 11 2 • view
Peoole who are insterested will come and read trans people's account directly. The others can even see the difference between victims pleading for they lives and the murderers. Discourse won't do shit to them. Just don't give the murderers a platform.
sep 1, 2025, 5:04 am • 8 0 • view
Conservative think tanks literally train and task trolls for that specific reason. On top of that they're use of dog whistles and such will almost always guarantee to the uninitiated we look like the irrational ones.
sep 1, 2025, 6:16 am • 13 0 • view
Here's the thing. The hateful one-off from some random bigot can't grow legs and hurt more people, and grow their network if it never leaves their echo chamber. There's nothing gained from arguing with nobody bigots. All you've done is signal boosted their hate and sacrificed your own valuable time
sep 1, 2025, 6:12 am • 6 0 • view
Ignoring these people on a social media site is not the same as ignoring the real world problem of it though. Most people on he internet are not truly trying to engage, this has been seen over and over. On the internet the majority of the time you are wasting your time with these people.
sep 1, 2025, 9:04 am • 7 0 • view
Dude Those dickweeds rely on being seen to sustain themselves Unironically they'll shrivel up and die if they think they're screaming into the void.
sep 1, 2025, 9:12 am • 4 0 • view
Block early. Block often.
sep 1, 2025, 3:46 am • 17 1 • view
Exactly! I see one, I block one. Haven't had much of a problem here with that philosophy. Feed a cold, starve a troll.
sep 1, 2025, 3:38 pm • 4 0 • view
I Report and Block Transphobes on Sight and so should everybody else. Debating them is a fuckin' waste of time (Playing Chess with a Dove analogy applies).
sep 1, 2025, 8:03 am • 6 0 • view
I realised VERY quickly how good the block is on this site. I've used it liberally and often.
sep 1, 2025, 11:51 pm • 3 0 • view
I used to be like that. It's futile and I wish I'd never wasted so much time and energy. You can't dunk on someone who'll just say the equivilent of "I know you are but what am I?" but worse, no matter how good you may think your arguments are. It's not debate club, they're not gonna conceded lol
sep 1, 2025, 2:51 am • 42 1 • view
Do not dunk. Block and move on. It is the bluesky mantra.
sep 1, 2025, 3:52 am • 21 2 • view
I seem to remember the bullies at school also left everyone alone when no-one stood up to them. (Spoiler: they didn't) Or put another way - among the biggest reasons for "punch Nazis" are "so people see that being a Nazi gets you punched" and "people will defend you against Nazis".
sep 1, 2025, 3:53 am • 9 0 • view
You can't punch people over bluesky.
sep 1, 2025, 3:54 am • 27 0 • view
And you can't block people in real life. Although that would be a sight to see. People getting banished to the phantom zone in real time.
sep 1, 2025, 3:55 am • 27 0 • view
Which is all to say - they have unrestricted access to MSM and government. Reach is not an issue for transphobes. At least here we can tell them to f**k off. All that said, I'm in the business of block on sight. And I'm not going to complain about people who punch Nazis.
sep 1, 2025, 3:53 am • 2 0 • view
And most of the time they're bots intended to spread their hatred through you than anything else It's to instill chaos and frighten us
sep 1, 2025, 10:19 am • 4 0 • view
Isn't transphobia against this platform guidelines and community rules? REPORT and BLOCK
sep 1, 2025, 9:40 am • 6 0 • view
Thank goodness that most of these people soon end up on blocklists that I'm subscribed to, that's one good thing about Bluesky
sep 1, 2025, 10:41 am • 5 0 • view
I BEEN SAYING THIS Especially when its cis people doing it Its like hey buddy, instead of being performative how bout you not make it more likely I see this garbage?
sep 1, 2025, 3:26 am • 41 1 • view
Dunking seems to work well for making UK politicians delete posts but I otherwise agree.
sep 1, 2025, 4:10 am • 5 0 • view
Politicians and public figures are typically an exception. The media is their megaphone directly challenging authority is different than arguing with hateful randos
sep 1, 2025, 6:20 am • 15 1 • view
Glad I haven't seen them around these parts much. I used to joke that they had a 3-reply mask drop. 3 posts before the made it crystal clear that there's nothing but evil between their ears. But honestly they're so emboldened they never put the mask on anymore. It's obvious its a time-sink
sep 1, 2025, 8:46 am • 5 1 • view
like, can anyone honestly believe they're gonna get through to someone who's first 'argument' after you put down a fact is to flip through their rolodex for their favorite slur? But they can't override their own desire to yell at someone or feel 'right' so they do it anyway :/
sep 1, 2025, 8:49 am • 3 1 • view
And ESPEEEECIALLY with a good number of sea lions out there. If one is going back-and-forth with someone who seemingly is educated, has been on BS for a long time, and is “in-the-know” and yet curiously “doesn’t see/doesn’t know” a thing about blatant transphobia? After 30 mins of proof? BLOCK ‘EM
sep 1, 2025, 4:16 am • 22 0 • view
Repeat after me, folks: "DON'T ENGAGE, JUST BLOCK!" Starve these motherfuckers out.
sep 1, 2025, 2:57 am • 70 7 • view
"Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with their experience" - Jean Cocteau (not Mark Twain), I mean in some irl situations it's hard to avoid that but it's definitely not something to do of your own free will when you're scrolling
sep 1, 2025, 9:32 am • 5 0 • view
It's more rewarding to block them and move on without investing a shred of my energy in them.
sep 2, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view