Thread by @sunnshiiny

None of us have access to the POEC inquiry report that will be tabled in Parliament in February 2023.

Arguing with people who are living in an alternate universe when it comes to political beliefs and information is a waste of our time.

https://twitter.com/D1960Rebecca/status/1604510455476936707

Being rude about it is the height of arrogant hubris.

One of the pieces of information I learned was that the convoy was populated by far right and far left leaders and a lot of moderates who have bought the propaganda the extremists are gaslighting them with.

So unless you know whether the person asking is a radicalized extremist or a deluded moderate confused by disinformation, why stir up a hornet’s nest? Because that’s all people are accomplishing.

Who are these people using rude ad hominem and accusations of stupidity?

I’ll tell you who they are. They’re either extremists themselves or part of the operatives kicking a hornets nest before the report is tabled.

Get people so overwhelmed with negative emotions and they cannot hear what the judge finds. They just listen to their team’s leaders.

To prevent people from falling into that trap, one does not call the targeted audience how stupid they are. One informs the audience the facts laid bare and reminds people a non partisan judge is reviewing the matter.

There is no doubt mistakes were made at every level.

There will be confirmations of liberal decisions that were not helpful. There will be confirmations that conservatives decisions were not helpful. And there will be acknowledgement that far left is active in Canadian politics and radicalizing progressives.

But none of us knows what the Judge will determine until we read the report. Guessing what that information might be while disrespecting opposition with contemptible commentary is not helpful.

But it is exactly what radicalized extremists want.

I swear a little info is dangerous in the hands of people who have no clue how to assess and decide truth.

Don’t be the mark in the extremist’s grift. Be smarter than the average radicalized anarchist creating as much animosity as possible before the official report comes.

Please don’t get sucked in to spreading negativity in an ever expanding swamp.

Honestly, are people this gullible and foolish to play with fire and then believe they won’t get burned horrifically?

Do not engage with extremists. If people who attended the convoy don’t know why Trudeau didn’t meet with them, they don’t want to accept the rationale our PMJT made during his testimony. Nothing you say or do is going to change that.

Especially calling the questioner stupid, an extremist or a fool.

Regardless of your partisan bent, people generally tune out when you call them stupid, an irrational radical or politically unaware.

People shouldn’t have to remind people of this.

Where on earth is it helpful to call people names when you don’t agree with their politics? That would be nowhere.

Isn’t that what Elmo just did. Used his power to abuse others for disagreeing with his gaslighting excuses.

How is what the questioner doing any different?

It’s not. It’s the same qualitatively as Elmo’s choice.

Which smells like set up to me.

Hypocrites are vilified by people with principles.

Calling people who did not behave violently stupid, radical or foolish becomes a further attack on those participants who were extreme.

Stop giving them behaviour to complain about. This continues because extremes continue to kick hornets nests. Hornets bite everyone.

The negativity being generated is toxic. That’s the koolaid. If you add to the toxicity, you’re drinking their koolaid.

Stop drinking the damn radicalizing koolaid.

This is how it’s done. Radicalization, I mean.

When your brain stem is doing all the reacting to opposition commentary rather than your frontal lobe and critical thinking, you’ve been radicalized.

How does one tell if they’ve been radicalized?

Give a rational logical explanation for your personal intense feelings towards opposition. Unless you can articulate a specific rationale & how it impacts you directly, you can assume you’re radicalized and drunk on koolaid.

Radicalized people cannot describe their own rationale. Because the brain stem (where emotions are out of your control using rational thought) reside. If you can’t speak about opposition w/o sneering, contempt dripping from your lips & rage welling up within, you’re radicalized.

That’s the first clue. When you respond to people asking stupid questions by attacking them personally, you’ve been radicalized.

The alternative is you haven’t matured beyond raging teenager mentality. Which still makes you an extremist. Teens are known for their drama.

You can be 60 years old and still act like a teen. If you haven’t grown up and matured, you are a radical and extremist & really shouldn’t be included in adult conversations because you aren’t capable of critical thinking.

It’s basic adulting. We don’t call others nasty names.

Try not to head into Christmas dinner/seasonal visiting with the family while you’re frothing at the mouth in rage.

Typically the crazy uncles are the only radicalized extremists to avoid. Don’t take over their role. Be better than a crazy uncle.

Ignore the provocations of grifters.

Yosemite Sam rage is humour. We laughed at people that couldn’t control their emotions. We didn’t vote for them or aim to become them. God forbid!