I think it would do a lot of people a lot of good to internalize a basic core principle of “if you tell someone to fuck off, you waive the right to be mad at them for fucking off, and personally accept responsibility for whatever comes of them fucking off”
This is a principle with a lot of applications: if you block somebody’s number, you’re not really allowed to be mad that they’ve stopped calling you. If you break up with somebody, you can’t really be upset with them for not dating you anymore. If you fire an employee, you relinquish all right to be pissed at them for not showing up to work. And, crucially, if you vote the Democrats out of power, then you don’t get to be upset that the Democrats didn’t have the votes to retain enough power to stop Republicans from speedrunning outright fascism. When you tell people to fuck off, you should first consider what would happen if that directive was actually enforced
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