Don’t engage online with people (or bots?) that hold extreme and overgeneralized positions like “The American West embodies fascism.” They aren’t interested in discussion, only promoting their parochial viewpoints.
everyone deserves a second chance, many less deserve a third. it's pretty clear that if one cannot answer a question regarding their viewpoint, then the subject isnt understood properly. repeated bad faith (eg dodging questions) is a loss condition, regardless as to whether one believes otherwise. i previously enjoyed identifying simple questions to elicit argumentative flaws, not worth it anymore.