• Alchemy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    When you encounter a bully in life you naturally learn to ignore them or avoid them to lessen your psychological harm from their tactics. So ignore the bully.

    Hard disagree.

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        9 months ago

        Bullies don’t learn by having free reign, they learn by having their nose fixed.

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          9 months ago

          That is one way they learn. But you can’t go around punching people in the adult world where often the bullies are your boss or some authority figure like a cop. In those cases you have to minimize how much you interact with physical and emotional boundaries. Trump essentially is a bully in the context of the news headlines and politics. He likes to belittle others.