Shameless seems like a strange way of putting it. As a cursory read of my comment history shows I struggle with keeping my lips zippered when someone is aggress

Shameless seems like a strange way of putting it. As a cursory read of my comment history shows I struggle with keeping my lips zippered when someone is aggressively “wrong on the Internet”, which is immature and I work on it. With that said, I’m one of those heretics who believes that openly aggressive is dramatically less bad than passive aggression. It’s better to just not be an asshole ever, but if you’re going to slip up, own it. I post under my real name precisely because I know I lack sufficient discipline to be world-class polite and diplomatic, and if there were no consequences, I’d try way less hard to improve. Our community/society is beginning to develop “plausible” deniability around snark and condescension and sucking up to powerful people to an art form.