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[–] YoBuckStopsHere 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] YoBuckStopsHere 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Dick_Justice 1 points 1 year ago

Of course they do. They're competing mean girls in the 7th grade lunch room. The best they could have ever gotten to would be "frenemies". Hell, I'm surprised the altercation wasn't about one of them secretly luring the other one into a three way call to get them to talk shit about a mutual friend. They stopped emotionally maturing in middle school.

[–] Zerlyna 18 points 1 year ago
[–] halcyoncmdr 17 points 1 year ago
[–] MicroWave 17 points 1 year ago

Children in adult clothes.

[–] L3s 15 points 1 year ago

Well she's not wrong

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend," but in an endless feedback loop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except that time and time again, we've seen that the enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more and no less.

They are not a friend, you do not devote resources to them, you let them fight and then attack both when they're weak, otherwise the one you prop up will stick a metaphorical dagger in your back the second you look away.

[–] Crackhappy 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hopefully they'll keep tearing each other apart so they've got less energy to focus on damaging other things.

[–] Dick_Justice 5 points 1 year ago

Well even a broken clock is right two times a day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Should we just be ignoring them, or giving them the attention they are seeking by doing these stunts?

If we ignore them that's when they start doing really shady stuff. It's exhausting feigning giving a shit.

[–] Holyginz 4 points 1 year ago

It's so embarrassing what our government has come to. P.S. calling either of them a bitch is a massive insult to the original owners of that word.

[–] utopianfiat 2 points 1 year ago

spoilerWhere's the lie

[–] BendyLemmy 1 points 1 year ago

So defend the right to free speech, the right to be a loud mouthed Nazi, and the right to be as uncivilised as you like in the doghouse.