Good advice. I would add Don't be afraid to sleep on it if you need to. If you need 3 months to deal with a comment or person, so be it, that's your perogative. Deal with bad actors on your time table, not theirs. Plus, it drives them nuts. 😈

If add to not be afraid to poke the bear too. This is a bit different than just being inflammatory or hyperbolic.

I went back and forth for 3 days with pro-life nut, poking the bear. It took 3 days, but they finally admitted they don't care about children or women, who dies, the harm it causes, or anything other than "having it said that abortion is wrong".

And there we go.

Poking the bear requires a certain degree of stubbornness.