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1. Trev, Gateway Bisexual (trev@containment.space)'s status on Friday, 24-Aug-2018 12:03:42 EDT Trev, Gateway Bisexual
   I generally favor kindness and non-contentious approaches. That said --
   
   If you want to stay popular, stop having opinions. If you wish to invite no criticism: say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. But if you're going to exist, and enact your will on some part of the world, be prepared to extend the middle finger once in a great while.
   
   It's good for you to say "fuck off" every now and then.
   1. Trev, Gateway Bisexual (trev@containment.space)'s status on Friday, 24-Aug-2018 12:08:11 EDT Trev, Gateway Bisexual

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      The reason for this is simple: an open mind is a good thing to have, but you have to draw a line inside of which the world ends and you begin. Otherwise people will blow right through it and you won't assert yourself in your own life at all. Tell people "no" every so often. Be rude if kind won't get it across.
   2. Frankie Saxx (frankiesaxx@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Friday, 24-Aug-2018 12:53:25 EDT Frankie Saxx

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      @Trev @moonman
      Yep yep yep. The nicest, kindest people I know are the people who do assert themselves and say no. In my experience, people who are "nice" because they're afraid saying no will make them unliked are often inwardly seething with resentment and it comes out in really toxic and passive aggressive ways.