Depends, I guess.

If someone is a full on Nazi, dont waste your time, punch.

If someone is being a piece of shit in public dont even tell them their wrong or debate with em just tell them “Hey you’re being an asshole”, aim for their ego cause its rarely socially acceptable to be a piece of shit.

If someone is offhandedly bringing up righ-wing rhetoric, consider if you have the energy to show compassion and think you are able to have a calm conversation with them, break that loneliness and isolationism the right deploys. If you dont have that energy, hold on to it for the next time you see someone on the pipeline.

Also its gonna be hard, but try to not get too combatative. It might push them deeper down the pipeline.

I’m all for punching Nazis, and calling out assholes to make them face up to their actions. We’ve only got so much energy to use, and deprogramming is a long process for some people.

Also no conversation I’ve had online with the right or the left match tbe conversations you’d have in person. Like online people on the left wanna group up into their tiny little cliques and in person its always more about the nuance of each subgenres style. So i figure talking to the right in person is also more effective than online.

This is all anecdotal, I’ve had a couple of friends and people I know be taken off the pipeline. Its a process, you gotta pick your battles carefully.

One of the things I’ve seen is normalization of their “enemies”. Seeing trans people, muslims, jews, foreigners, feminists being just normal people.

In the right wing bubble all feminists are “crazy” so when they meet people that just are, then that can crack the worldview.

Also, this liberal clearly didn’t “convert” or he’d be taking personal accountability and asking for forgiveness instead of placing some of the blame on his victims

Blame them for being born into a cult and then demand that they tearfully flagellate themselves for not immediately seeing through the massive network of propaganda and social conditioning that’s been brainwashing their entire society for hundreds of years. After all, making a better society isn’t about teaching people to be better and work together to dismantle the unjust systems that chain us all down. It’s about making those who wronged you, intentionally or not, suffer eternally for their sins.