RE: You don’t fight back by fighting back.
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A great post (so much so that I'm posting my first ever comment here :) ) !
I have also found that "kill 'em with kindness" works best, from a utilitarian perspective.
For example: some people have hysterically accused me of murder and threaten to call the cops on me on a public Telegram chat.
Rather than engage, I lightly trolled and brushed it off - it paid off two-fold:
1. My own mental health
I remained calm and didn't lose emotional energy in an argument. This is a crucial skill, because I spent many months of Corona in a self-induced brain fog by arguing with "idiots" by well, acting like an idiot.
2. Opens eyes and ears from the other side
The other side exposed themselves as loony, and me as just a guy trying to live his life. This in turn meant that I'd get PMs from 3rd parties (from the other side of the argument!) telling me that they understand my point of view and that the other guys were way out of line.
Wow, well I hope you didn't do anything like that and I hope they laid off eventually, or you found a way to block them.
Yeah, getting stuck at home with family or having to have the same conversations over and over again during corona was definitely a challenge. I was lucky to have few people bothering me about depressing or scary stories from the news.
Welcome to Hive :-D Thanks for stopping by!
I took some sardonic satisfaction in the fact that they made fools of themselves, and eventually wished them a good day (they blessed me by essentially saying that they refuse to keep up a conversation with someone like me)
Lucky you! I have a habit of poisoning myself with bad news (Corona specifically) and trying to make sense of the insanity. I've gotten better at blocking it out now and living life without being angry at the world for not "getting it".
Cheers!
Cutting out news was one of the best decisions I've ever made! I hope you find the same