• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    27 days ago

    So many people, businesses, and countries have given Trump BJs to stay in his favour and all it does it show him he can come back and bully them again for more.

    But I’m sure it’ll work out this time.

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      27 days ago

      I did most of my growing up in the 1970s, where the universal parental advice to every single child who was bullied was, “The only way to stop a bully is to stand up to him.”

      Like so many other things Gen-X was taught in our childhood, I now believe it was just a hollow lie. Maybe my parents repeated it without realizing it was one, like so many others.

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        27 days ago

        That is the only way to deal with them. Problem is all the “both sides” bullshit in schools now where both the bully and the kid trying to stop his lunch getting stolen get punished equally. It’s changed how people think you’re supposed to deal with an aggressor.

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      27 days ago

      We also learned that Nazism doesn’t go well, but apparently we can only maintain these lessons for one or two generations.

  • Solumbran@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Yeah let’s not listen to this piece of shit, or this piece of shit government, okay?