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Offline: Elizabeth Bruenig on Forgiving Trolls and Strangers · Pod Save America

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  Speaker 1: I started thinking, okay, the person who's saying something nasty
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  Speaker 1: or being nasty, maybe they're just, you know, they just
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  Speaker 1: popped off a bad tweet. So why am I going
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  Speaker 1: to respond to that? Right. And then keep this whole
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  Speaker 1: cycle going. Right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and oftentimes I'll tell myself like, maybe they
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  Speaker 2: probably have a point. I probably am annoying on some level.
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  Speaker 1: I try to do that too.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I was an asshole.
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  Speaker 2: Lena Dunham had a great quote where she said, I
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  Speaker 2: guess I'm not for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But, I now think about that myself when people have
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  Speaker 2: valid dunks. I'm like, yeah, well, I guess I'm not
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  Speaker 2: for everyone.
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