OptiMoose@lemmy.cafetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•When did you (literally or figuratively) dodge a bullet?English
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3 months agoYou have some impressive storytelling skill. Have you considered writing a book?
You have some impressive storytelling skill. Have you considered writing a book?
Anyone who is afraid of bears has absolutely no experience in the wild. It might do you some good to actually get that experience in the wild. A hike is much better for your brain than writing a post about how outraged you are that someone “made a ridiculous exercise meant to rile people up”
I think it’s less about insulting them, and more a out no longer treating them with the utmost respect. We (and by we I don’t just mean lefties) should have called them weird when they called themselves the the tea party, but we handled absolutely insane rhetoric by trying to meet it from a place of thoughtful and respectful academic discussion. It was always the wrong strategy.
That said it could very easily backfire. Going to far would look really childish. I think weird really hits home with how most reasonable people feel about these guys.