every time i see online discourse i feel either 1. the urge to just call the person involved and talk to them over the phone or 2. call all people involved over the phone in a conference call with DV and child abuse experts with 40+ years of experience listening in

i know, not think, that any engagement with online opinion is worthless and that the opinions of people online are so violently skewed from reality that they are either abuse itself or a byproduct of the abuse and that there is no exception to this. every time i see a piece of discourse i am struck by the obviousness of the textbook domestic violence tactics at play. literally all forms of politic are various ways to justify abuse both of ourselves and of the earth.