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@enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be Thank you for your response and insight. In general scope, I'm not saying to break down walls and build bridges and reach across the aisle and so on and so forth. The ability to do that is increasingly more difficult. I'm not saying kindness will win back the bootlickers. That's just not going to happen. They're going to have to have their own personal revelation that isn't going to happen within the realm of spirited debate. They have to fix their own hearts. I understand, and lament, the line of things that led to us getting to where we are now. My focus is into the microcosm of our lovely, diverse, fediverse, and our local offline communities of people of color and queer folks and people who want good for everyone, because there's still lots and lots and lots of those. Our local bubbles and those who adjoin it. We, and those before us, built spaces like these with the objective of creating inclusive and safe spaces, and I'm watching so many just throw those conventions away and forget "why" because they've determined the world is shitty enough that it's not worth extending that kindness anymore, even to people in the same boat as us, and I very much want to rebel against that sentiment. It's an "it's up to us to be the good we want to see in the world" kind of thing. Our own pockets of it. This is how we persist.