What prompted me to do this is right wingers and far right militias like the one who got sentenced yesterday in Belgium being able to seemingly say whatever they wanted in the comments. I’m talking about militias who posted Pinochet memes about throwing Belgian left wingers out of helicopters, militias who posted pictures of them flexing their biceps in front of a cup that said ‘left wing tears’ etc.

I was wondering: ‘why isn’t anyone calling them out on their LARPish behavior?’. They were getting too comfortable in posting shit without the backlash. The only thing I saw happening was left wing people debating these Nazi fucks. But the thing is, you’re not going to win a debate with a people like that. These are people who have no problem lying, spouting bullshit or outright insulting you the moment they may lose face. And why would you even want to convince a nazi shit in the first place?

I figured that if I wanted to talk to people like myself, as that’s my only real reference, I might need another approach next to these people. The two foot tackle is an illegal move in football (soccer) in which you charge into someone with two feet forward. It is banned because you can easily hurt your opponent. Under the premise of ‘Make racists afraid again’ I wanted to try out being a little shit myself in these comments. After all, if you are posing as a tough guy on the internet, be prepared to get a reaction.

So I started doing just that. Post a picture of Pinochet under a left wing page? Here’s a nice little picture of Barbara Pit you shit. A left wing page posts a screenshot of a politician saying something nasty on Twitter or Instagram? I’ll tag the person in the comment and call him a shit talking wanker. A right winger defending a convicted Nazi because of free speech? No, you’re living in a fantasy and you’re a loser. A famous Belgian Nazi gets sentenced to prison? I’ll comment that we are going hard on ‘right wing tears’. Etc.

I’m not debating right wingers/outright nazis with this. I don’t feel like doing that, because that’s usually not even the game they play. This is the game they play and it has worked for them so far. I also don’t always want to reach other left wingers with this. I feel like the guy with a hamsic pfp will probably agree with me regardless of what I say. With this, I hope to appeal to the people on the fence, lurking at these pages. I want to achieve that other people see my comments (which I probably stupidly enough post under my actual, real life account) and think: ‘yeah, I don’t have to be nice to a Nazi. I don’t have to debate them and I don’t need to be scared of them.’

And it works. People actually help me in the responses by just dunking on the Nazi’s that come out of the trash.