• pelican476@discuss.online
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      8 days ago

      Yeah, it certainly can be. It is possible to tactfully and gracefully disagree with someone without making them look or feel stupid, and without causing them to lose face. This is something our grandparents used to do for each other.

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          7 days ago

          I don’t understand why you need to use your grandparents as an example. In what world is a single comment on the internet the same as an abusive domestic relationship?

          Some of you are replying for the sake of piling on without really contributing anything of value. This is the kind of toxicity of this site that I’m taking about.

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            4 days ago

            In what world is a single comment on the internet the same as an abusive domestic relationship?

            What the fuck are you talking about?

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                  4 days ago

                  You just said your grandparents treated each other horribly. Are you gonna gaslight me about something you wrote? I guess the fruit didn’t fall far from the tree, huh.

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                    3 days ago

                    I said our grandparents used to treat each other and their peers well, by disagreeing with each other gracefully. There was no mention of abuse in my post at all. I wasn’t talking about my grandparents specifically, I was talking about “our” grandparents, collectively.