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    14 days ago

    In my opinion, he only seems to be respectful. It’s not sealioning, but it’s something akin to that. Maybe there’s a term for it, I don’t know.

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      14 days ago

      (She) Um. No, I’m actually being polite because I’m a polite person. It’s not a conspiracy, and it is again genuinely worrying that you can’t accept someone politely disagreeing with you, instead assuming that they have to be doing it manipulatively.

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        14 days ago

        A polite person would have just moved along instead of picking a flight over a perceived slight that doesn’t even exist given the context of the joke.

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          “If you were really polite, you’d have meekly let me insult you” No, uh… no I don’t think that’s how this works.

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            14 days ago

            You might want to remind yourself who responded to whom’s comment with a little insult first and reevaluate.

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              14 days ago

              Your initial joke was somewhat rude, which I pointed out. You have then gone on to spend a couple hours fairly viciously insulting me, lambasting my character, pulling a “fake-geek-girl-esque” purity test and framing my motivations as intentionally manipulative, all because I called your joke…
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              “lame”.

              How your ego will ever recover from such a crushing slight, we will perhaps never know.

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                14 days ago

                And how could you ever live with yourself if you didn’t point it out and give yourself an opportunity to whine?

                And there was no purity test, just a possible explanation that didn’t involve you being insufferable, but you successfully put that to rest.

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                  Again, I called your joke “lame”.

                  In response, you’ve spent hours viciously insulting me while trying to turn it around so that you were the aggrieved party. Even if I were just whining, which I wasn’t even doing, your response has been wildly disproportionate to the slight you’re attempting to manufacture.

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                    14 days ago

                    I don’t know how long you think it takes to bang out a couple sentences, but I assure you, it’s not hours.

                    However I do have a lot of time on my hands right now. I’m keeping someone company in a hospital overseas as close to 24/7 as I can manage. And because they are often napping, and I don’t speak the language so the T.V. is no good unless there is tennis or soccer on, and the hospital wifi blocks streaming, and if I streamed in cellular I’d use up my foreign data very quickly streaming; I’m left with going back and forth from reading to lemmy when they’re asleep. So I’ve got all the time I need for as long as you want to continue.