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Beverly Hebert's avatar

Yes, I have also encountered the cut off response, but more often they tell me to go away, or they tell me that I am suffering from TDS - that's one of their favorite comebacks. If you are always able to remain polite, you're a finer person than me Mike! I began with all good intentions to be always civil, polite, and kind - and as Michelle Obama once said, "to go high when they go low." Alas, I am also not so fine or disciplined a person as MO either - and I had no idea how really low so many of them will go. There came a point when I began to be so frustrated and disgusted with their smug condescension and insults coupled with of willful ignorance, bigotry, racism and even viciousness that too often now I do become rude in return. I think those of us who try to interact with them on any regular basis probably could use a support group to help us deal with the feelings they provoke.

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Mike S's avatar

I too have been regularly diagnosed with TDS. LOL, sign me up for that support group.

I’ll confess that for every one of my polite interactions, there’s at least a couple that aren’t so polite. Most of the social media MAGAs and trolls are not worth the effort of civility.

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