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How dare he try to inform his friend of the largest terrorist attack on our capital since the civil war...
Oh people dont enjoy being spoke to shut the fuck up. When democracy is being attacked put your fucking ego aside and grow up.
Fucking Disney kids I swear
The exchange I posted was pretty typical of the information we shared. Nothing out of the ordinary for us.
They were once one of my best friends.
So, it was all the things, all the time.
We would talk about everything. All the crazy ideas. All the debates and meandering philosophizing.
She used to be ... someone else.
We grew up together. Made music, art, protested the machine Seattle style. Then, she went all libertarian. Rugged individual and all that. With the inheritance that paid for her house. And the YouTube algorithms ate her alive. And her open mind refused anything new that wasn't Jordan or Rorgan or Harris.
That exchange wasn't the end of our friendship.
It just got worse.
And 4 years after that I decided I can't talk to someone who can't be spoke with anymore and whose thoughts were essentially an echo of the tube.
You're welcome to your own interpretation of things. I'm no J6 sympathizer but I found OP to come off preachy and very condescending. If that's how you want people to view you then feel free to emulate this approach but I can promise you it's not an effective way to educate people. I don't think that's really the goal of communicating in this fashion though. That's just the rationalization certain types of people use to justify being a dick to others they view as beneath them in some way. You can be right and a dick at the same time as evidenced by your response to me here. There's nothing wrong with what you said from a logical perspective but you intentionally framed it the same way an asshole would. Whether or not being an asshole was your primary intent is largely irrelevant at that point.
Yeah, what we need is more tone-policing. That'll stop the fascists.
Being rude to your friends and family is not going to stop the fascists either. Communication style matters. If you don't know that to be true then it's guaranteed you're not good at it.