Was about to answer the billionaires one, realized there are better ways to spend this limited beautiful moment of life than being virtually shouted at.

How about you?

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[–] 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It happens all the time, but it's usually because I realize that either:

  • I'm not as invested or informed on the topic as I thought I was and just don't have anything meaningful to contribute
  • whatever joke I was writing up didn't sound as funny to me after I actually wrote it out
  • it took too long to write, did some basic research and realized I didn't know what I was talking about
  • it took too long to write, I got distracted by something, and by the time I got back to it I had stopped caring
  • something happens to the post I was responding to or my connection, page resets/refreshes and I've lost whatever the thing was midway through, I'm not typing all that again
  • realize I'm going to say something not very PC and I know the exact responses I'll get, "Nah, I don't care enough about this."
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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That last one I like to call "spotting the hill I don't wanna die on"

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago

    Really well put.

    I responded to a "why do Conservatives feel x" sort of of post as I have a few conservative friends and we'd talked about it.

    Ended up in a multi day back and forth where I was accused of being everything from Hitler to sociopathic and had one person follow my comments around for a while afterwards.

    And in the end? I feel no one was informed and none of it had any reward.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I didn't know people were allowed to research before commenting! /s

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, I try to limit it, but occasionally there will be some half-ass historical event or fact that I remember as part of my argument and I'll go to look it up and realize the actual facts of the matter contradict whatever point I was trying to make. So then I just delete the comment and move on, "Well... I guess I didn't have anything to say about that after all."

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