What we're up against/The Art of the Link Bomb

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As Rachel Maddow so brilliantly describes in this video clip, trying to have an intelligent two-way, factual conversation with someone who gets all of his information from within the right-wing echo chamber is a serious challenge. You get to the point where s/he will consider any perceived challenge to the illusion in which s/he is a willing participant will cause that person to either shut down or launch into a general ad hominem attack on you. What can you do when you are dealing with somebody unwilling to take facts for an answer? You link bomb their posts.

Link bombing simply means you take rebuttal source links and post them after the article/post in question. You don't discuss the links or continue any conversation you were having with the other person. Let the links do the talking. Even if that person does not read the information, anybody else who reads the post and comments later will read them. By appearing calm and reasonable while the other person rants and attacks, you have created credibility for those new readers.

Our job should be to plant seeds in the minds of the reader. We can't change their minds for them.