Adi Explains it All: Dealing With Trolls

Lately I’ve been noticing something.  A lot of the humans I’m acquainted with are suddenly and unceremoniously being banned from Facebook for various amounts of time.  The funny thing is, it’s always the humans responding to other humans who deserve to be banned from both social media and, frankly, your entire planet.  I’ve always found this interesting because despite the fact that my human and I go after these same trolls, we’ve never once had to deal with any kind of banishment.  Frankly, the only time I was ever in Twitter jail was when I tried to get myself put in to see what would happen.  My human even tried to get a Facebook ban once, posting the exact same thing another human was banned for posting, and even after asking someone to report him, he couldn’t do it.  I couldn’t help but wonder why that is.

Not too long ago, I think I figured it out.  As much as humans might have their hearts in the right places dealing with assholes, your strategies are completely wrong.  You sink to their level, retaliating against their comments, insult for insult, and that’s not how it works.  The only thing that does is get you banned when the goal is to get them.  How do I know this?  Experience.  I can sit down and spend a weekend on twitter, responding to troll after troll, answering every single comment they post and face absolutely zero consequences for doing so.  Presumably you’d like to know how, so let me share a few things I’ve learned:

Adi Explains It All: The Capitol Riots

January 6, 2021.  Especially if you live in the States, it’ll be one of those dates that live on in infamy.  A bunch of Donald Trump supporters, spurred on by calls for “Trial by Combat,” and the fervent belief that the President of the United States supported them, did something that hadn’t happened since Canada burned down the Whitehouse in 1812 (Yeah yeah, Canada was still a British colony at the time, but I’m still not wrong).  They stormed the Capitol building where the Vice President was leading the House in affirming Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States.  Humans who had been conned into believing the election had been rigged (I ain’t gonna call them protestors, and if you do, just leave my site now), stormed the building and absolutely trashed the place in the fervent belief that they’d be able to overturn the fair and balanced democratic process.  The only ones there to stop them were a Capitol Police Force that was woefully unprepared for any kind of rioting and were denied assistance from the National Guard that they so desperately needed.  Granted it didn’t hurt that a bunch of the insurrectionists were current/former police and military who thought the idea of being legally racist was just great and didn’t want to give that up.