It’s an aggressive mix of the gish gallop and motte and bailey fallacies.

They won’t even own their own viewpoints once you’ve gone through the effort of pulling apart the claim and addressing it. They’ll tell you that you’re reading too deep into it, misinterpreting it, all while putting out more nonsense for you to address.

There’s nothing you can do with the average person not being invested enough in politics to inquire further, and the lack of controls on public speakers. Except stoop to their level I suppose.

Someone actually gets it. Like every other sexual act it is an act of trust.

Thanks friend.

I try to laugh because it helps with how depressing life is, but sometimes I’m just overwhelmed by it all. Sometimes I need to close my eyes and ignore it.

You wouldn’t do this to your cat. Or your dog. Or any other pet. Why should they have to go through it?

Nah, I know what nice guys are. I just more so meant I didn’t understand these people.

I don’t know about others, but I tend to look at how someone treats others as insight on how they’ll treat me. If someone is openly malicious to other people for such petty reasons then they’ll treat you the same way.

I never understood this specific example. Why are people so obsessed with someone that’s already spoken for? It shows such a lack of respect for boundaries.

I’ve run into the type of guy that thinks it’s alright to harass someone because they’re in a relationship with someone they’re interested in, and what makes me sad is how so many see nothing wrong with it.

Therapy exhausts me, and I’d like to be uninvited to these sessions as I don’t have much to add, but seeing posts like this and reading other peoples stories makes me realize that it could absolutely be so much worse.