No way, dude. The best way to deal with people like this is to say, “Yeah” and walk the fuck away. You won’t change anyone’s mind about anything and engaging will only make things worse.
You can be right, or you can be happy. Pick one.
Sometimes it isn’t for that person, but the other people around them. I’ll argue with racists and anti-LGBTQ people online, not as an expectation that those mouth breathing chuds will change, but rather so the targeted groups know they are not alone.
Oh, shit, I’ll argue online all GOD DAMN day.
No you won’t
You’re right.
Gasp
Maybe by ‘direct’ they mean ‘directed energy weapon straight through their skull’
Then they get pissed off and try to convince you that you’re manipulating them
Meanwhile OP is actually super wrong.
I can be a pretty passive aggressive person, mostly because I’m nicer that way. I can be direct, but prefer not to be because there’s zero filter.
for example, I had somebody attempting to get me fired at work because they didn’t like me. I attempted to get them reassigned to another project but they wouldn’t take the hint. so one evening I waited by their car and had a long discussion about how my job provides for my family and how important my family is to me. I asked them of they had family and if they would do anything to protect their family. they finally got the threats and decided to take the reassignment a few days later.
although it wasn’t completely direct, it was more of a hammer than a scalpel that I usually handle.
