This article analyzes online comments responding to viral sociopolitical events in different languages, across
different social media platforms. We use discourse analytic methods to inspect how quotation marks are systematically deployed to
intensify denigrations of opposing political identities and positions in the context of political disagreements. We show how
quotation marks are used in situated online interactions to convey a skeptical, derisive stance toward quoted content while
positioning one’s reasonable perspective against an unreasonable, illegitimate other. This online discursive practice provides
insights into how ordinary politics are engaged (or rather, not seriously engaged) when people participate in
mockery in disputative online discourse.