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97. So true: "Harsh and insulting responses will not change minds. "

Tue Nov 11, 2025, 03:40 AM

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But remember--"get a life" is not enforceable in a court of law. It's all some people have. Being married to a career social worker for all these decades has taught me that, if nothing else.

Besides, if I made use of the "ignore" feature every time someone came at me like that, I'd have worn it out by now. Instead, I have never used it once. After all, you never know when that "complete waste of space" might come up with something inspiring, and then I would have missed it! I ignore posts, not posters. For that matter, there are plenty of Democratic politicians out there now for whom I have, to put it politely, less than "full admiration." But, OK, that's how I originally felt about David Souter, and he actually turned out to be a decent human. (yeah, yeah, I know, "who was David Souter?"--ancient history, he was a legal adviser to Hatshepsut).

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