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Influential enough for you to spend a half an hour barfing up a bunch mostly irrelevant bullshit.
All you have is hatred. Now you've resorted to insulting me. Your hatred has made you incapable of having a conversation. You've removed yourself from political discourse because of an inability to have conversations without being overpowered by hatred.
Try harder to think about what you want to accomplish and how to best go about accomplishing it. You're not being effective right now. Consider what you can do to actually be effective. Refusing to vote, refusing to discuss anything, throwing around insults doesn't help anyone in Gaza.
What a rich imagination you have.
Just been my experience on this platform. Not sure how accusing everyone of genocide will help Palestinians, but I suspect a lot of these people don't actually care about Palestinians, they're just addicted to feeling self-righteous. Either way, they aren't accomplishing anything positive.
You're imagining me as some amalgamation of other users you've interacted with here, and probably a good measure of whole-cloth assumptions besides. You wrote a huge post addressed to these assumptions instead of me, yet you accused me of a disinterest in conversation. You seem to have come down from your self-righteous indignation a bit, but you're still having a conversation with a phantom of your own creation. When I said 'listen more, and talk less', I didn't just mean listen to me. It's good, general advise. Take it or leave it.