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Let’s be civil to each other. Social media trolls are empowered by two things: anonymity and the instant gratification of evoking a response. We should endeavor to resist the temptation to engage. No one goes to social media to have their mind changed.

Being kind and responsible Americans is its own counter-protest and it will yield results. We need to have resolve and it should be buoyed by the knowledge that we are quiet but we are also numerous.

There is still a moral majority in the country and when mobilized it produces great things. One of them we’ll celebrate tomorrow.

1 posted on 07/03/2018 5:16:21 AM PDT by calvincaspian
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I pray that you are correct.


2 posted on 07/03/2018 5:17:42 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine. #FreeTommy)
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that kind of get along go along reach across the aisle attitude is right from the Establishment GOPE handbook. It worked wonders for the Bushies back in the day. The other side interpets “civility” as capitulation and will not stop until one is totally destroyed. Not. one. more. step. backwards.


3 posted on 07/03/2018 5:23:48 AM PDT by slapshot ( Speaker Ryan is a sober and less tan version of John Boehner)
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[Being kind and responsible Americans is its own counter-protest and it will yield results.]

Obeying the law and arresting those who disobey the law will also yield results.


4 posted on 07/03/2018 5:25:32 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 32:12)
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Boston herald is just NOW noticing this after 2 years? Geez


5 posted on 07/03/2018 5:27:50 AM PDT by pangaea6
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“Civility must hold sway”. That’s the problem right there.

Civility does not exist in a vacuum, nor does it spontaneously arise. Those are both gun control arguments. Civility only exists when there are penalties for being uncivil.

An adult person you do not know approaches you, screaming, cursing and threatening you. If you are passive to his abuse, what is his motive for civility? However, if you have a gun, you have the means, if he becomes violent, of *enforcing* civility. In most cases, without firing a shot.

If you look at situations of defensive gun use against an aggressor, a *common* theme is that the shooter told or showed the aggressor that he was armed and to stop approaching him, and the aggressor did not.

Civility requires fear of a penalty for being uncivil.

People who *are* civil require some means, individually or collectively to coerce those who are uncivil to at least limit their violent actions. Yes, they may legally scream, shout and curse you. But they may not threaten, and they may not attack.

If they do either of those things, civility must be enforced.


8 posted on 07/03/2018 5:50:26 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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Let’s be civil to each other. Social media trolls are empowered by two things: anonymity and the instant gratification of evoking a response. We should endeavor to resist the temptation to engage. No one goes to social media to have their mind changed.

This is wrong. The Bolsheviks - who have now successfully taken over the Democratic party - think that by bullying and shouldering folks into a ditch they can get folks to shut up and give them their way. That is what Bolsheviks do.

Being "civil" just shows, not only them, but everyone else who is on the sidelines, that they are winning and that you can't take on the bullies.

You don't respond to bullies by giving in.

10 posted on 07/03/2018 5:51:07 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Talk about going low....Mad Maxine Waters

Maxine Waters

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR8tHg_Wmy0

12 posted on 07/03/2018 5:59:31 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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Let’s be civil to each other

Truly a nice sentiment but impossible to apply when the opposition considers you not just wrong, but evil.

People on the Left -- individually and in a pack -- have demonstrated time and again their contempt for you, for what you stand for, for what you believe. They consider it their mission in life to bully you into silence and, if that doesn't work, to destroy your family, your livelihood and your peace of mind ... even if you haven't done anything to provoke such intolerance ... such personal hatred.

As for me I'm not agressively looking to push anyone's buttons -- especially when the "anyone" is emotionally charged beyond reason -- but neither will I back down from a challenge that threatens my liberty. No way. No more.

16 posted on 07/03/2018 6:56:39 AM PDT by glennaro
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Is it civil to jail or hang traitors? After all, all they have done is express a different point of view which we must respect even if we disagree with it.


17 posted on 07/03/2018 7:02:37 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Unfortunately when you are in a war, civility does NOT reign...in a Battle, you fight back. Todays wars are different...


18 posted on 07/03/2018 7:51:02 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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Civility has gone the way of the horse and buggy thanks to the commie, Leninist, socialist DemocRATS. The scum are non stop in tearing down their enemy....us, yes the USA.


19 posted on 07/03/2018 8:05:34 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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Civility = rubber knife at a gun fight.


20 posted on 07/03/2018 4:43:49 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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