This is also what makes his obsession with debunking so maddening, because it’s not quite trolling, even if it has the same end result, so you almost want to try and fix it. He doesn’t want to say something to get a rise out of you, he wants to say something wrong enough to be correctable, so that when you correct him he can introduce a new bit of trivia to be even more wrong about.
Like, in this thread about taking trophies from your enemies, you are supposed to assume that’s an oversight resulting from limited coverage of the Eastern Front in American schools and explain: “it was called the Continuation War, and whether it was effective, necessary, or even justified continues to be an open question in Finnish history, particularly given Finland’s unique position in the Cold War that followed.”
Any other poster, up to and including Discobot, would say “oh, huh, okay.” I am quite sure that DrDeth—having seen a book called Did Finland invade the Soviet Union?: A new perspective on that time Finland definitely allied with Nazi Germany, declared war on, and invaded the Soviet Union, 1941–1944 but not yet gotten as far as the subtitle—is aching for you to utter the words “Continuation War.”
However, since nobody took the bait, I imagine we can look forward to a series of increasingly provocative claims over the next few years until at last “Finland allied with the Nazis” shows up as a marquee myth in one of his historical inaccuracies threads and someone finally gets irritated enough to shut it down.