Your goal here isn't to listen to anything I have to say or trust that I have literal decades of experience arguing on the internet at this point, your goal is to defeat me and gain upvotes. I'm not real, I'm just something getting in your way.

That's a wild assumption. If I cared about upvotes, I have trouble imagining an approach more destined to fail than arguing for MAGA on Lemmy.

I also don't think everything has to be a debate. I love those and am always happy for it but really, just getting MAGA folks to interact with people whom they wouldn't otherwise is healthy. I think more good and possibly understanding our shared humanity comes of sharing memes or common interests.

Similarly, if we see the news or the things that are animating them, it's helpful. (A trivial example from years ago but that opened my eyes, I was pretty on the "cancel culture is a stupid made up complaint" and then while reading the National Review, they referenced "so you've been publicly shamed" which broke my heart when I read it. Then my opinion changed a bit.)

Yelling at people on the internet is rarely actually debating and even less often convincing.

Edit: ahhh, sorry, I'm on a phone and see I've got a note about you. I'll end this here.

Have a good day!