They legitimately might respond better to being bullied and belittled because it is more in line with their worldview than compassion with ulterior motives.
these bastards work 80 hours a week churning put hellscape and i only have weekends to both fight them and do laundry
that'd be cool but the funniest answer would be if they also had been testing a secret reusable rocket
there should be a law in journalism that if a suspicious story is masturbation material it is probably not true
yeah that's a human problem