there's a lot of outrageous stuff out there, and Twitter gives you the ability to talk back directly to someone being outrageous. Takes a lot of discipline to not do it. Nobody is persuaded to change their evil ways by being ragged on in public. They just build the walls higher.
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feeding off of negative attention is very very toxic though. I can't imagine what the inner life of those people is like. How do they not just cry themselves to sleep every night? Maybe they do. We don't get to see them in private, when they have to take off the outrage mask.
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Imagine being the sister or daughter of a man famous for calling women "whores". Imagine being the father or brother of a woman famous for saying "all men are trash". This stuff has got to take a toll.
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If you mute or block the right people you don't have to worry about most of this
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They're outrage brokers. It's what they do best. And of course people have nothing better to do than to be outraged
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