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I have similar feelings with people who put more importance on tone policing while fucking fascists are building concentration camps.
But here we are and that's what you're doing
So I usually put one last hail mary comment, because you understanding this is more important than how nice you think someone is:
If you think the message would be better received another way, fucking try that
Don't try and insist that every spreads the message the same way, because that's a recipe for it not reaching large parts of the population.
But there's going to be a lot of less than a week old accounts with single digit comments trying to waste people's time and stop doing what's effective.
And how do I know which you are?
And here it is. Of course a person like you isn't gonna reread the thread and go "oh boy i kinda went overboard on this one and went straight for the jugular, i guess i was in a foul mood".
Nah. Of course you're gonna write a whole fanfic about how you're actually trying to maximize good by... telling someone whose point you barely understand that they are "a recent example of the American education system" and "imitating our president someday".
And you do that, not because you have poor impulse control and emotion management, but because really you are fighting the good fight and trying to spread a positive message to the masses.
What a fucking useless way to spend calories.