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It might be if the other side is allowed to insult.

• oblio 1y ago
  Are we talking about kids in a backyard here or about "powerful people", presumably engaged in a political struggle? Has insulting anyone ever stopped anything?
  • lostmsu 1y ago
    The answer is, unfortunately, yes. The problem is the court of public opinion can easily be swayed by insulting someone, and if that someone can not insult back, that's a political instrument that gives asymmetrical power to the current rulers.
    • oblio 1y ago
      I'm guess I'm too European for this discussion to make a lot of sense.
      • lostmsu 1y ago
        This shit was literally invented in Europe. > No one can say that your propaganda is too crude or low or brutal, or that it is not decent enough, for those are not the relevant criteria. Its purpose is not to be decent, or gentle, or weak, or modest; it is to be successful. From https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb54.htm https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb54...
        • oblio 1y ago
          This discussion has officially fallen off any reasonable rails.