I know that pointing out these people are not arguing in good faith is sort of shooting fish in a barrel. But anyway. To trim some very extensive conversation down:

The challenge:

The response:

The complaints about the response:

The revised response:

The coup de grace: Apparently, because I moved on from pointing out that yes obviously these people exist on Lemmy, to directly asking what this commenter believed and criticizing what they told me they believed (because it is the same absurd strategy), I am… moving the goalposts.