I get it was against the comm rules, but I was pretty proud of this dunk and am dissappointed it was removed.

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    I’m going to block you now because I don’t exercise futility.

    I always imagine people like this dressed as Greek actors with giant masks and exaggerated hand gestures to explain the emotion of each sentence.

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    The “adult in the room” was being an elitist smug who only cared about civility. A textbook liberal basically.

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    Nah it’s bullshit that got removed. Calling an Amerikan a dog is honestly an insult to dogs, and far better than the settler ghouls deserve.

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    American partisan politics is tiresome and pointless, like a hamster treadmill. It’s just a way for people to burn off excess energy. But there are more productive ways of doing that, you could go outside and exercise instead.

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        Yeah you made a lot of serious and substantive points and they just ignored them all and chose to take issue with a word that you used. Very typical for how arguments with liberals usually go. You may as well be arguing with a wall.

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    I’m not here to police your language, but I’m honestly curious what, apart from assigning blame to a butthurt moderator or even the person you’ve talked to, what you’ve learned from this interaction. Are there ways we can change our tone and content to both better radicalize and stay well enough out of the aim of trigger happy speech zealots for our message to stay prominent longer and have a greater reach.

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      Are there ways we can change our tone and content to both better radicalize and stay well enough out of the aim of trigger happy speech zealots for our message to stay prominent longer and have a greater reach.

      If you’re actually interested in changing minds, do not dunk. Contrary to what the hexbears say, bullying never works and civility is always necessary. Never call your interlocutor a lib. Never put words in their mouths (e.g., the vast majority of Biden supporters do not support genocide, so don’t dismiss someone because they “support genocide”).

      Civility is essential if you’re ever to win people over in the free marketplace of ideas.