preface: you know what, writing this was still fun, don't take my outrage too seriously.

no wait, don't take the outrage too personally.

take the outrage seriously, but not personally.

"Activists are always trainwrecks personally."

objectively untrue. in fact, I'm an activist and I'm killing it.

Stop making these obviously incorrect absolute statements.

absolute statements are never correct (this is a joke. notice how I made an absolute statement about absolute statements being never correct).

some people are train wrecks. some people are not.

it took you so long to write this response and you get basic facts incorrect in the second sentence.

geez.

sorry, you interrupted me in the middle of macgruber and you start off from such an indefensible, inaccurate point right off the bat.

"I don't think I was ever like that exactly"

you don't think you were exactly like an activist train wreck analogy that you just made up that nobody accused you of being?

Great. super relevant stuff you got going.

I also don't think you were ever exactly a tap-dancing hippopotamus, another thing nobody was talking about.

"We don't change things for the better perceptibly."

If you really are a volunteer and not making a difference, that sucks.

maybe try firefighting? or americorps? something that you'll be able to perceive as directly helpful with each action.

"...I'm just ignoring that now."

Great, thanks for ignoring it so much. you wrote a bunch of paragraphs about it.

"Where we can maybe exchange useful information is on optimism."

noooo thank you, we are not on the same level to be able to exchange useful information.

you're a total negative Nelly.

If you want help or a different perspective, you can ask for it, I do not need anything from your side, thank you for the oblique offer.

We aren't working together.

I am proactively pointing out that global genocide is an unreasonable punitive device, you are arguing that hey, the eldritch God advocating for genocide makes some points.

look, you're in the negotiation phase where you're trying to find common ground, but you should probably give up because none of the other phases have worked for you.

you previously thought there were arguments to be made for genocide, now you're rethinking your position.

that's great!

that's literally all I was trying to do with my comment, remind everybody who's making cynical pro-genocide comments that as practical measures or even as a "joke", none of the arguments make sense and believing that they do just shifts you further toward the authoritarian powers trying to crush your spirit and sense of community.

you eventually responded correctly by critically re-examining your beliefs.

that's great.

I'm going back to magruber.