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Roy Rolling

(7,514 posts)
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 01:34 AM Sep 2024

Indifferent your enemies

Indifferent* your enemies more than they hate you. When confronting hardheaded cultists at least have the satisfaction that comes from doing the right thing. The opposite of love isn’t hate it’s indiffernce.

Ignore unreasonable people, they’re a waste of time. Do not hate them, that’s what they want. Indifferent them, the silence is deadly to cult minions. Because you don’t oppose them they have no reference to measure if they’re MAGA enough. They depend on objections and attention to validate their MAGA credentials.

Don’t give it to them, leave them hanging.

Indifferent them more than they hate us.

*yeah, I know the word “indifferent” is an adjective and not a verb.

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BWdem4life

(2,948 posts)
1. I have been known to use the "indifferent" function on DU occasionally
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 02:42 AM
Sep 2024

but I don't consider those I have indifferented to be my enemies.

wnylib

(25,355 posts)
2. This technique is advocated by a psychologist, Dr. Romani, for dealing with narcissists.
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 03:05 AM
Sep 2024

She calls it "gray rocking." It means being detached, neutral, and superficially polite to avoid engaging with narcissists, which is her area of expertise. But I think that the technique could work with cultists and other people who aggressively try to engage people to push their agenda.

Here is a 5 minute video by Dr. Romani to explain what gray rocking is and isn't.

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3. could be called also "benign neglect". good for all negatives that don't require attending to. in favor of the positives
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 03:57 AM
Sep 2024

that surround us and are inside of us.

BaronChocula

(4,180 posts)
4. I just indifferented a maga friend
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 04:17 AM
Sep 2024

We went to high school together. She was a fun-loving bundle of energy, kind of tomboyish. The most contact we've had since high school has been on FB where we never discussed politics. I do recall a post of hers on election night 2012 saying "I think I'm going to be sick." I met her husband once back in the early 2000s and immediately heard some RW BS that night.

The majority of what I post on FB is political. I don't care. Most of those friends I don't really need. I know she sees my posts, but she never responds to the political ones. Then on Sunday night I got a DM from her simply saying "at least no one in my party is trying to kill presidential candidates." In my typical fashion I just let it linger into the next day. I thought of what I could say to convince her simple maga mind that just because two different beings attempted to take out the rapist, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're from "my party." But I figured that was useless and just responded with a simple "?"

Her response was totally apologetic and regretful. I didn't respond. I just hope she's safe with her maganut husband. And I hope she feels sick on election night like she was in 2012. Or better still, I hope she found the light by then and will be happy with President Harris.

Martin Eden

(15,440 posts)
5. They want to trigger us. Don't comply.
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 08:21 AM
Sep 2024

What's the worst thing that can happen to Trump besides losing the election and being incarcerated?

Being ignored.

Not sucking up the oxygen with his face and voice confronting us every day.

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