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Why Destiny should value civility.

Lone Candle
5 min readJul 17, 2024

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Destiny has decided that he’s done with civility with Trump supporters. His argument is that Trump supporters support a man who abused his power as president, attempted to end U.S. democracy, and is running for president again while apparently open to future authoritarian actions. Trump supporters are either aware of this and don’t care, meaning they are willfully risking the destruction of U.S. democracy, or, they are willfully ignorant. Why the Hell should he be civil with people who are supporting a man who tried to end U.S. democracy? Why should he be civil with people so biased that they are ignorant of, or in denial of, what Trump tried to do as president? There’s no reasoning with such people.

When arguing with someone who is not Elon Musk and a guy who challenged him to a metaphorical duel, Not Elon simply ignored Destiny’s argument and seemed unaware of what Trump was trying to do at the end of his term in office. The faux dueler ranted and made a variety of bad arguments and claims, showing that while he has taken the time to educate himself, he only did so with falsity and bullshit. One guy ignores Destiny’s actual argument while being ignorant of what the man he supports for president actually tried to do, while the other has fooled himself into believing a series of nonsense. Nothing Destiny could possibly say would shock these guys out of their stupors. Why should he be civil with such assholes?

Destiny is right that it is amazingly outrageous how almost half the country doesn’t realize that the man who is…

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