I fell super hard into this in 2020. I would try so hard to gently explain to people that, yes, COVID is real and that, yes, Donald Trump lied about election interference. There was some post about more people in some county voting than were registered. I literally found the county's records and showed them that no, there were more people registered than voted and that the post was a lie. You know what they said? "You found that with Google, which is a liberal source."

It's not worth it. I don't engage. I'm a much more stable and happy person because of it.

[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Incorrect! You have 2 more guesses for which search engine I used."

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago

I think it was because I told them something like "you can just Google the county's election information" and gave them the official link with the information.

[–] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah, i had someone dictating my position to me and then debating that made up belief last night. It was surreal.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 points 4 days ago

The best? They proceed to call you a troll and then block you before you're able to tell them to get off from your back and fuck off