Murdered children are being eaten in the street by animals & they're concerned about whether you're nice and sweet enough while protesting it.

Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Don't waste your resources trying to educate random adult individuals who have no intention of ever learning, growing, or doing better. You're allowed to block and walk at the first sign of incivility rather than waiting for an increase in hostilities. 1:34 PM · Mar 9, 2024

I may maintain civility with those who choose to walk away, but to return? The door remains closed. I can still be polite, but don't expect more.

civility

they’ll evict you in your own language, they’ll gender you correctly as they cage you, they’ll look resigned as they infiltrate and bomb you, will say it’s for your own good, for the sake of your own freedom. liberalism is a polite knife.

— Daniel Sarah Karasik, from Plenitude

Our language, our music and our manners are increasingly raucous, self-centred, and offensive, as though beauty and good taste have no real place in our lives. One word is written large on all these ugly things, and that word is ‘me’.

- Sir Roger Scruton

*dumps a decaying head on a plate*

“The rise of the Independent bloc of voters is quite likely the logical outcome of a significant portion of our citizens desperately seeking moderate sanity in an extremist political environment.”

Go ahead. Create the things you wish existed. Our world needs civility, compassion, inclusion, kindness, hope, positivism, laughter, and visions of possibility.

Let it begin with me.

Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Adults incapable of conducting themselves with even a modicum of civility - especially adults within a socially privileged set - are not worthy of your time and efforts beyond the bare minimum required to get past them and move on with your much more important things to do. 4:00 PM · Nov 4, 2023

But checking himself, he added, in a gayer tone, "Is it in address that he improves? Has he deigned to add aught of civility to his ordinary style? – for I dare not hope," he continued in a lower and more serious tone, "that he is improved in his essentials."

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Here's a great example of how inappropriate #civility is in response to attacks on our humanity. This guy is the source of many invented right wing panics and the media still wants to hear what he has to say?

"The Guardian emailed Rufo with questions on his apparent endorsement of Aporia, and how he reconciled that with his professed “colorblindness”. He did not respond directly to any questions put to him but instead made a crude sexual insult to a Guardian reporter."

From the November 19, 2023 article:

Trump’s coarseness and cruelty have come to define the Republican Party since his rise to the presidency — and many GOP voters relish and emulate the approach, while others tolerate it....

Offered the chance to support other presidential hopefuls who champion similar agenda to Trump in a less abrasive package, Republicans are for now sticking with the former president — underscoring how his personality and shattering of behavioral norms have long been a major part of his appeal. Conservative evangelicals influential in Iowa — the first state in the GOP nominating calendar — have previously set aside some distaste for Trump’s personal behavior as he took up their causes, including appointing antiabortion judges to the Supreme Court, and next year’s caucuses will test whether anything has shifted.