Yeah they're exactly right that it's a whackamole game, but that doesn't mean that doing it is pointless or ineffective.
The number one enemy of fascism is vigilance. Can't get a foothold when everyone's got the spray gun to shoo you off.
It's that Nazi Bar story at scale, you're always gonna need to be ready to get the bat and "I mean it." out, but the second you slip, they'll become a rooted infestation that grows and grows until they feel comfortable bringing out the real bad folks and stuff in your face.
Lol as much as this is a fun larp, and reddit did take too long to ban them, I'm not partial to taking random twitter/mastodon/ discourse as gospel. I think it's goofy when conservatives do it, and I think it's goofy here.
I can confirm this story because I was the boat.
Can also confirm. I was the boat.
Then who was boat?
Explain Bot: "Can Confirm" boat at anchor off the coast of Panama reputed to have the tightest pussy of any boat stationed south of Caracas.
A was flying over the boat at the time, as I am wont to do.
Then everyone clapped. I know because that boat was Albert Einstein.
You wouldn't know him, he goes to a different school in Canada.
Can't speak for the boat story, but after fatpeoplehate was banned, there was a study that showed that many shitters left/changed their behavior
https://www.vice.com/en/article/zm3ez3/study-finds-that-banning-trolls-works-to-some-degree
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.07354
Yeah I'm not arguing that deplatforming doesn't work, I just think the highly improbable boat story is silly to even address.