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@cypnk The tactic that your reference elucidates is a form of dismissal that does not engage the core argument, but discourages further participation by suggesting that it is fruitless or even counterproductive.

This is a well-established pattern that I have seen, in various forms, from various activists, on various ends of the political vector space, and only new arrivals would seem to be surprised by it. But telling them is worthwhile.