• Alchemy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When you encounter a bully in life you naturally learn to ignore them or avoid them to lessen your psychological harm from their tactics. So ignore the bully.

    Hard disagree.

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      1 year ago

      Interesting, care to elaborate on your approach?

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        1 year ago

        Bullies don’t learn by having free reign, they learn by having their nose fixed.

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          That is one way they learn. But you can’t go around punching people in the adult world where often the bullies are your boss or some authority figure like a cop. In those cases you have to minimize how much you interact with physical and emotional boundaries. Trump essentially is a bully in the context of the news headlines and politics. He likes to belittle others.