How to mess with a troll in ways they don’t expect, ways that are perfectly suited to your wits and potential repertoire — but that you haven’t let yourself use until now. The US is rapidly becoming just another Hypocracy, a state ruled by absolute hypocrites – no self-aggrandizing hypocrisy they won’t perpetuate. Hypocrisy tends to corrupt; absolute hypocrisy corrupts absolutely.We’re way better educated, smarter and more articulate than these absolute hypocrites, so why do they have us on the run?Because we’re way more conscientious than they are. We fight with our fighting hands tied behind our backs for out-of-touch moral reasons, reasons that did make sense out of civic loyalty but not anymore.

Source: Don’t Be Afraid to Go Low — And 12 Other New Strategies for Dealing with Right-Wing Trolls @alternet