reminding myself yet again to remove hands from keyboard in any situation where I am at risk of reading people’s Takes that they are In Their Feelings About, so that I do not in my exasperation actually say anything.
there is no situation that “oh my god you are making insanely bad faith arguments, get fucked” will ever help.
it will inevitably be taken as expressing targeted capital-H hate toward them/ their personal stakes/ identity/ etc, and not as exasperation after having read two hours of poorly made bad faith arguments with no resolution and increasingly bad faith escalation.
