I do feel like I was smug and insulting out of the gate for more or less no reason. But also, I feel like demanding that I have to come in super respectful and kind, so they can respond in their famous chosen fashion, is laughable. I’m just speaking to them in the language that they clearly are approving of, just from the other side. That’s fair, to me.

Basically, thinking someone is wrong, and telling them so and telling them why, is not “bad faith.” Not in any world. Again this is the Hexbear no-true-scotsman thing, where they’re super open and everyone is welcome except obvious awful horrible liberals who need to be attacked at every turn because they deserve it, and anyone who disagrees with them in any way is obviously that. This is why I tend to talk badly about Hexbear: Because they feel comfortable talking badly about everyone else, and hurling abuse and trolling at anyone and everyone, so fuck 'em. If they don’t want to be treated like that, they can open a conversation about the value of the social contract, and we can talk, but otherwise, oh well.

Edit: The person edited their response, abandoning the debate I guess being unhappy with the nature of it. Seems reasonable, they’re not obligated to talk if they don’t want to. Maybe if I’d sent them a picture of a pig ballsack, they would have been receptive and felt comfortable with how appropriate the whole conversation was.