Whenever you dissent from what someone said, make sure your dissension is based on...what they actually said. Not your projections, bad assumptions, ignoring qualifiers or context, your personal dislike of them, resentment of retweet count, or anything else absolutely ridiculous.

Now re: projections and bad assumptions? Everyone has done this before. Including me. But there’s a difference between making a mistake and showing up in certain demographics of folks’ mentions, repeatedly doing this, as your base level form of communication and engagement.

As far as “ignoring qualifiers or context, your personal dislike of them, resentment of retweet count etc” there’s no excuse for those as source and people usually hide these in their dissent. As in, it’s not actually about the topic at all. It’s them not admitting dislike.

And as far as disliking someone goes? You can dislike someone & still: 1) NOT bother them 2) NOT demand others dislike them 3) NOT lie on them endlessly and use said lies to bond with others 4) NOT make demands to be part of their lives yet threaten them with 1-3 if they say no.