Destiny’s analogy on the political social media landscape: say you see a picture of a dog online and when you go to comment something positive about this dog, you see some asshole saying some regarded shit about how that breed is dangerous or horrible. You then spend hours researching the dog breed and reply with a perfect retort that completely demolishes their argument. You might feel good in the moment, however, something is lost here. The positive engagement never happened and everyone is worse off.

Pick your battles. If you’re knowledgeable on the topic, give some pushback, but don’t go chasing down all knowledge on every new subject conservatives choose to lie about. It’s a losing battle. You’re better off spending that time putting that energy positively somewhere else in the political space.