Everybody privately shit-talks everybody. The phone always listens to it and records it. A viral hack that turns all this shit-talking into texts. Everybody in the world suddenly gets a thousand shit-talking texts from their family, friends and associates. Society dissolves.

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    You do better. Return to discussing my point like you did ten replies back. Your shallow hackneyed handwaving just stinks up the thread.

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      In what way? Stop being one of the people who explains to someone why they’re being down-voted instead of piling on with insults?

      Why should I engage with your chosen subject? I’m not interested. The only reason I even opened the post was because of the downvotes, not the premise or title.

      And when I did, I found you, actively, either accidentally, or intentionally, pissing people off. You’re being abrasive and adversarial. You’re either trolling, or inadvertently turning everyone away from the thing you actually wanted to discuss.

      I don’t care whether it’s deliberate, the explanation for why you should stop is the same.

      Yet, you feel the need to continue to go “nu-uh, everyone else is the problem” even as the number of people telling you otherwise, and just the general disapproval, increases.

      “Ground yourself in the observable.” How people react when you say and do things, is part of the observable, my friend.

      If I succeed, I’ll have made you nicer to talk to. I’m a lot more invested in that.

      Even as you probably wont be nicer for me. You likely hate my guts about now, and wont admit it to me even if I do make you rethink things.

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        Remember way back when I suggested that you return to discussing my point?

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          This is a non-response.

          Read and reply to what is said, or don’t respond at all.

          Anything else is an attempt to feel like you got the last word.

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            To be clear, your extended tangent into clumsy self-stroking is no fun for me. I want no part of it. My point, otoh, interests me. Therefore…

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              Stop trying to dictate how people engage. And also, of the two of you, only you appear to be engaging in “self stroking”.

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                You guys need a dictator.

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                  What an asinine response. No, we don’t need any form of dictator, certainly not someone literally telling us what to say, when you started this thread ostensibly to have an actual discussion.

                  Well, you got one. Sorry it’s not the one you wanted, but it’s the one you deserve.

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                I’m just guiding to you a better conversation. For your own good.

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                  You’re either a troll or a genuine egomaniac sophist. You talk like you think you know more than everyone else, or operate on a higher level of thought.

                  I’m telling you, this isn’t the case. You like to play at philosophy but lack the introspection needed to actually gain any insight.

                  First, learn to question yourself and your assumptions. Then, and only then, can you gain any form of enlightenment.

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                  Buddy. You’re on a tantrum. You ain’t taking us anywhere except the verbal equivalent of slinging shit at each other.

                  But I’m not here for conversation. I’m here to show you this ain’t productive, and that you need to stop.

                  You’ve been set straight on an assumption about people, that might have called into question your own self worth.

                  If you genuinely thought everyone shit-talks, it follows that it is something you do.

                  If that’s the case, the fact that there are people who don’t, might have made you feel like a worse person in contrast.

                  That’s ok. But you need to start thinking about what you’re gonna do about it. And doubling down on the stuff that makes you difficult to like, aint it.

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                    Hmm. I thought I explained this 5 times but in case you missed it

                    It doesn’t matter if it’s 100%. Or 99%. Or even 90 or 30. It would still be quite the nuke.

                    That’s the point. That it would be a nuke.