You can’t beat a troll in an argument.
They don’t care about being right. They don’t care about making sense. They don’t even care about winning arguments; all they care about is pissing you off. If you engage with the meat of their assertions, you lose.
You have now fed the troll.
The worst of them will do anything to cheese people off. Lie, cheat, steal, make shit up, “ironic” sexism/racism/homophobia that eventually turns into just actual sexism/racism/homophobia if they’re left to stew in it for too long. They don’t want to win the argument. They’re just like the people who use aimbots or invincibility hacks in multiplayer games; they’re after attention and an empty, weak sense of validation that they can no longer accurately gauge as weak and empty. That’s the win, to them. Their smug “detachment” is, in reality, a desperate grip on the only thing they think they can affect about the world beyond them.
I’d feel sorry for most of them if they weren’t such assholes.
Don’t feed the trolls, kids. It’s bad for them and it’s bad for you.