General Discussion

And it works against us because they know that our usual route is "sternly worded letter encouraging doing the right thing" and we give a whole lot of slack before actual claws come out that we don't know how to use completely because we rarely get to that point. Our primary weapon of choice is logical snark and sarcasm, hoping people will realize the error of their ways because we never want to feel like we're *forcing* someone to change their way of thinking.

So it is difficult to not engage in reactive schadenfreude and FAFO which is basically useless except for entertaining podcasts, but there's a point where people truly have learned a lesson and want to change and we should be judiciously welcoming.

I mean this in the context of private citizens, not politicians because they are employees who are paid to know better.