I can tell that this is what they want to happen, me to engage with the ad hominem. This guy from last night posts with glee people who have blocked him, and others have a meltdown because he has triggered them. I also post screenshots of those who block me, but more of showing that this is their main mode of dealing with disagreement. First, if that doesn't deflect or dismantle it, then they block.
Another guy, who I speculate got frustrated that I would not engage in his behavior of insults and personal attacks, simply went to the next level and was doxxing me, posting pictures of my friends and family and threatening to contact clients. Clients who would read the shocking, horrible thing I said to people that "masks don't work." He is the first person I have reported on X since I joined in 2007.
I suppose I could feel embarrassed about my twenty minutes a day of going through my feed and responding to myriad posts that want the salad days of mask mandates back. The only legitimate criticism I can think they might have is "why waste your time." I simply point to 2020 and the ridiculous mask mandates instituted in the summer of that year.
Well, it would seem to me you're adhering to a Thomas Paine dictum: " It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error." Thomas Paine The encounters you describe, in my opinion, prove Eric's point: "The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity."
I think "stupidity" is a pet peeve of mine. I say this while recognizing I do stupid things, often due to a lack of forethought.
If you can log in to Twitter, you're not stupid. So the fact that they are on Twitter calling me stupid is oxymoronic in the interaction itself.
I know people define stupidity differently than I do. I think stupid means a lack of capacity to understand something or a lack of intelligence. Lack of common sense (another definition of stupid) is something else.
I think Bonhoeffer saying "made stupid" is a better approach. It's not an individual thing but a collective thing. Many were "made stupid" by the COVID narrative and did things based on it that just didn't make any sense. Like a stampede, they all did things as a collective.
This does not mean they should not be held to account. They should inasmuch as their actions were meant to force or coerce others to do the same.
The Covid Hysteria was an example of a great many forces being brought to bear on people to make them comply! Myself, I refused and did what I could to advise others to avoid the mRNA Concoction and all the other SILLINESS that was raging. Sadly, some that I cared about chose to get the Warp Speed Vaxx and are now gone or injured. "When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it."
Kudos! You have a good understanding of how to defeat this tactic. Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine
I can tell that this is what they want to happen, me to engage with the ad hominem. This guy from last night posts with glee people who have blocked him, and others have a meltdown because he has triggered them. I also post screenshots of those who block me, but more of showing that this is their main mode of dealing with disagreement. First, if that doesn't deflect or dismantle it, then they block.
Another guy, who I speculate got frustrated that I would not engage in his behavior of insults and personal attacks, simply went to the next level and was doxxing me, posting pictures of my friends and family and threatening to contact clients. Clients who would read the shocking, horrible thing I said to people that "masks don't work." He is the first person I have reported on X since I joined in 2007.
I suppose I could feel embarrassed about my twenty minutes a day of going through my feed and responding to myriad posts that want the salad days of mask mandates back. The only legitimate criticism I can think they might have is "why waste your time." I simply point to 2020 and the ridiculous mask mandates instituted in the summer of that year.
Well, it would seem to me you're adhering to a Thomas Paine dictum: " It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error." Thomas Paine The encounters you describe, in my opinion, prove Eric's point: "The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity."
Eric Hoffer
I think "stupidity" is a pet peeve of mine. I say this while recognizing I do stupid things, often due to a lack of forethought.
If you can log in to Twitter, you're not stupid. So the fact that they are on Twitter calling me stupid is oxymoronic in the interaction itself.
I know people define stupidity differently than I do. I think stupid means a lack of capacity to understand something or a lack of intelligence. Lack of common sense (another definition of stupid) is something else.
I think Bonhoeffer saying "made stupid" is a better approach. It's not an individual thing but a collective thing. Many were "made stupid" by the COVID narrative and did things based on it that just didn't make any sense. Like a stampede, they all did things as a collective.
This does not mean they should not be held to account. They should inasmuch as their actions were meant to force or coerce others to do the same.
The Covid Hysteria was an example of a great many forces being brought to bear on people to make them comply! Myself, I refused and did what I could to advise others to avoid the mRNA Concoction and all the other SILLINESS that was raging. Sadly, some that I cared about chose to get the Warp Speed Vaxx and are now gone or injured. "When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it."
Thucydides
Yeah that was unbelievable