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Mariam Gabaji
When someone pisses you off on Facebook, the logical, natural response is to lob over the nuke—block them, and you’ll never have to deal with anything they say on the social network ever again. It’s a refreshing feeling, but it’s also a wee extreme for minor infractions.
The best way to win an argument with an arsehole is to ignore them completely. But that’s not always possible. Sometimes you need to convince someone to stop arguing and physically move away, or you need to de-escalate an argument with someone you need to co-exist with. Sometimes you need…
“People are just as allowed to dislike things as they are permitted to enjoy them,” writes cultural critic Kate Wagner in The Baffler essay “Don’t Let People Enjoy Things”. Wagner (creator of the architectural critique blog McMansion Hell) shuts down one of the dumber memes going around right now, where…
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