I read a post and I disagree. Now I have a choice. I could respond and say, “I disagree and here’s why...” or I could preface my disagreement with personal insults. Many people here - and everywhere else on the internet - choose the insult route.
And then someone responds to me with insults! Of course I have to be cuttingly, sarcastically insulting back at them - showing off my wit and feeling the sweet satisfaction of revenge.
According to God there is an alternative. Check out my tagline and then read about the fruits of the spirit in Galatians 5.
I read the articles and sometimes comment, I have been called everything in the book and in multiple languages. I just don’t normally respond to insults.
There are threads I don’t bother with because so many people seem to have minds like concrete, all mixed up and firmly set.
However, that’s the nature of free speech.
I think the problem is this:
Since the advent of Trump Derangement Syndrome, the enemy has crossed too many lines and it really pisses me and a lot of others off.
So many FReepers seem to sympathize with anti-Trump nonsense and defend anti-Trump lies - which has led to an impasse where reason and debate only affords liars an equal platform with honest people. Why give liars a voice?
For example, the 2020 election was stolen. FReepers who say it wasn’t stolen are lying scum and don’t deserve to be heard. They should be called out as liars and scum.
There are lots of other examples I won’t go into - but the point is, the
time for debate and polite discourse is long past - now we are at war, and apparently people can’t handle it. Kind of like some people couldn’t handle Trump’s “mean tweets”.
Sorry - not sorry. Liars should be called liars, perverts should be called perverts, and trolls should be called trolls.