11 glorious times ignorant internet trolls were destroyed with facts

There’s nothing we like to see more than a good takedown, particularly if it corrects some of the ignorant nonsense that gets pushed on the internet. These 11 people tried to make unpleasant points and got seriously burnt by people who knew what they were talking about.

1. The illogicality of anti-vaxxers

2. Knocking transphobia into the long grass

3. Ask a silly question

4. Misremembering history to suit your agenda

Remember that period in American history when people were crushed by the government and marched off to camps? Neither do I.

That's because we have the Second Amendment.

— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) February 24, 2018

•Japanese concentration camps
•The Trail of Tears
•Slavery and slave catchers
•Private prisons

You literally forgot all of American history. What you meant to say is you don’t remember when white people were put in camps. Check your racism. https://t.co/sgStZCtWUC

— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) February 25, 2018

5. The US constitutional “scholar”

6. Blowing away a straw man argument

7. When the facts don’t support your bigoted propaganda

8. The old Obama golf lie

9. When someone at a political magazine doesn’t know the history behind its name …

Let me put this as bluntly as possible. People who express anonymous political opinions on Twitter are cowards. The founding fathers risked their lives for their beliefs. These people, for all their bluster, won’t risk their jobs.

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) September 4, 2018

A correspondent for The Federalist forgets that Hamilton, Madison, and Jay wrote the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym Publius. https://t.co/svVHFOSatE

— Lindsay Beyerstein (@Beyerstein) September 4, 2018

10. What has Puerto Rico ever done for US?

– Hundreds of thousands of soldiers to the US military
– Nat’l supply of hospital IV bags & medical supplies
– Historically, sugar, coffee, crops
– A strategic port in the Atlantic

& Importantly for the 1%, one of the biggest loophole tax havens for the super-rich. pic.twitter.com/aFglkE3nBA

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) September 21, 2018

11. Biblical homophobia

However satisfying these may be – and they are – they don’t quite reach the standard of John Oliver being thoroughly schooled by the late, great physicist Stephen Hawking.

H/T someecards