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Can you elaborate? What does trump have to do with allowing early denial of bad ORs

Reading between the lines a bit, but I think the point is that public ridicule and personal attacks as well a general lack professionalism is a page out of his book.

So I think OP is trying to insinuate POTUS' behavior inspires a general lack of decorum, a la trickle-down dickonomics. Which is a sentiment I can't in good faith disagree with entirely, but it seems like a stretch in this case.

is public ridiculing of somebody who intentionally submits garbage in order to potentially earn a few bucks a bad thing? it's like with patent trolls, dragging their shady actions to public and ridiculing them is best thing that can happen

I get your point, but regardless of how justified it may seem, I find behaving that way just isn't nearly as effective as kindness.

When I'm not being conscious, I tend to be pretty negative or sarcastic and even trend towards passive aggressive. I've found it to be rather damaging for a number of reasons.

I find when I choose kindness, not only is it more effective at accomplishing my goals, but I am happier and I set a better example for those around me. I find the kinder I respond ESPECIALLY in situations where it feels undeserved, the more positive impact it has.

To put it in more cliche terms, I want the world to be a kinder place, and I am trying to be the change I seek.

So yeah, personally I think it's a bad thing. Ban em, sure. But why take it any further? And FWIW, I'm sure the "threat" of ridicule is more tongue in cheek than anything, I was just trying to elaborate on what I suspected the other commenter was intimating.

Why bring politics into this discussion?

Edit: that person (or bot) has almost exclusively posted on this website about the current US president. I think it's a waste engaging and I already regret my comment here

This is clearly a bot or a troll.

Nothing to do with politics and everything to do with crappy AI slop. There was some list somewhere of some of those reports and it was painful to look at

Not Trump specifically but the various prevalent trends of online "cancel culture" experienced for the past decade or longer.

why are you linking this to politics? I have to deal with crap "security disclosures" every week. those, so called security experts, report security vulnerabilities for features I don't even have! They should be ridiculed in public!

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