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[+] 234 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (35 children)
  • [–] 129 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That isn't even bullying! That is just pointing out how fucking wrong and hypocritical they are about every little thing.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Given your level of justified vitrol, I'm surprised you're associating with these people volunteerily at all. I've got family I'll never talk to again because I don't want to have any time to Nazis. Most of them are dead to me, so missing funerals won't even be a thing.

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    [–] 114 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    I’m old enough to remember when the advice people gave to deal with a bully was “Beat their ass and they’ll stop.”

    But bullies somehow changed the narrative to where fighting back was wrong. It’s not. Self defense is never wrong. The only people that argue this are bullies.

    Some people only speak the language of violence, and if you want them to understand your reply it must be delivered in a way they understand.

    Bullies do not self correct their behavior. They find it rewarding and it continues until they are stopped.

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  • [–] 91 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    But bullies somehow changed the narrative to where fighting back was wrong.

    I grew up in the age of zero tolerance policies in school which meant you would get suspended for fighting back no matter the circumstances. I blame those policies for the shift.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Same motherfucker policy was responsible for getting me suspended when I fought back against a bully he hit me from behind knocking me down.

    But I remember in middle school had a bully kept picking at me. My dad said the next time he did it to beat the shit out of him. So he was flicking my ear during study hall. So I threw his ass down the blenchers and then beat the fuck of him.

    He never messed with me, nor did any other bullies. And I am no fighter and wasn't strong. I found over the years most bullies are just weak ass pussies and that break down if you give any resistance.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    In the age of zero tolerance, my son discovered that the school security will respond to fights, but not punches.

    He had someone bullying him in high school, making fun of him for having a big nose. Told the guy he was done, and didn't want to hear it anymore, and said if he said one more thing, there'd be trouble.

    The guy opened his mouth again, my son stood up, punched him in the face, and sat back down. There was a security guard walking by at the time, and he saw it, and just kept walking.

    I've felt my son's punches in karate class, so my first reaction when he told me about it was to ask if I should prepare for a visit from the police, but he said he pulled the punch.

    No one ever said anything about his nose again.

    It amazed me that anyone would ever consider bullying him. 6'5" tall, solid muscle, about 12 years of Karate classes. It seemed like bullying him would be obviously suicidal, but he is a good kid who didn't want to hurt anyone, so bullies irrationally thought he was an easy target.

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    [–] 81 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    They never should have stopped calling them "weird."

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That was so mild too. Call them creepy shrimp dick loners. Make them look deeply unsettling and unhinged and inhumane and illogical little unlikeable creeps they are and isolate them. Use whatever sticks. Their top guy is a proven rapist and was best buds with pedophiles. Keep hammering that!

    Taking the higher moral stand doesn't work with these people; grab them by their fucking hair and drag them through the mud kicking and screaming. Do you wanna win and maybe slow this country's descent into full on fascism or do you want to "not stoop to their level" and "uphold decorum" with words? Because what's coming is going to be much more unkind than words.

    That is the only way to handle these types. Time to grow some ovaries and start calling these pieces of filth what they are.

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    [–] 51 points 1 year ago

    He's right. Only effective strategy against a bully is to fight back.

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  • [+] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I never cease to be amazed at the “if you don’t treat bullies with respect you are the baddie” discourse in the US. It’s been the MO in schools for about 80 years and has become the standard operating procedure for many adults. Protecting yourself and others from bullies is an ethical imperative. As is supporting others who have defended themselves or others are being further victimized as a result. Bullies (and the people/systems that support them) lack empathy, compassion, reason, and accountability and are only happy when they feel powerful, which they achieve by harming anyone they think they can get away with. The only language they understand is force and any other tactic is as useful as yelling at a brick wall.

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    [–] 41 points 1 year ago

    Dear libs, please listen to your people who know how to stand up to bullies.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    A prediction: Walz might be the George Washington of the Founding Parents for a Free States of America. Unlike most of our leftish politicians, he has some military experience and seems inclined to fisticuffs. Maybe Mark Kelly as well.

    We are going to need that sort of person, who is willing to lead and fight by example.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    We need people who do not care if they piss off the wealthy. People willing to forcefully and lawfully remove money from politics. People willing to challenge their own party members and even party leaders.

    Primary every federal office in every election until the comfy incumbent lives in fear.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've said this for a while now. You want to make a dent? You go after the ego.

    Picture this: an endless stream of totally “realistic” phone-recorded AI videos of Trump playing golf. He lines up the putt—misses. Tries again—air ball. It’s literally an inch away now—misses again. Doesn’t blink, just traps it in, smirks, walks off like he nailed it. Over and over.

    The key is subtlety. These can’t look staged or flashy—make them feel like someone’s nephew filmed it from the cart. Make it look like he’s genuinely terrible but thinks he’s crushing it.

    Then blast them everywhere. Flood the algorithm. Turn his “I’m the best at golf” schtick into a punchline.

    This is how you use AI to actually take Trump down—with a thousand tiny ego papercuts.

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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    If you don't fight from a losing position, what incentive does anyone have to put you to win a winning when it is voting time? Counting on the Trump admin being awful enough for people to vote Dem is way too risky. Fight and inspire. Build collation and prepare to rebuild a new vision. You can't just offer return to neoliberal politics is not the answer either. You'll just restart the cycle over again for the next Trump.

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    If one of them says, "Well Harris was/would be worse!", explain the concept of Schodinger's Cat to them; in a universe where Harris was never President, you can't say shit about what she would have done.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    If you become road kill you'll then have RFK after ya so take this warning seriously.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    DAMMIT! We WERE going to have Him RUN for President but now we need to Find Someone ELSE! Is Charlie Kirk's pal GAVIN NEWSOM around?

    -The DNC LITERALLY!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    I like how even mainstream politicians openly cuss now but we still censor their shit in online news articles... Whos fucking sensibilities are they worried about offending exactly if they dont censor words?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    And let me tell you, you do not want to be roadkill with this administration.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Attack attack attack! No mercy! Down with TACO Don, down with the MAGA fascists!

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