one of the worst traits of microblogging is the way that finding a succinct way to describe people you're opposing creates cycles in which discoursing "teams" only ever give narrative credence to their own team's abstracted description of their enemy (or the reason they're opposing their enemy)
@exiliaex Sometimes I find tunnels a more apt metaphor.
@exiliaex i am digging a big moat as we speak
@exiliaex Michel Serres has an answer (or non-answer) for everything:
Neither debate nor criticism makes any advances, except on the social chessboard and in the conquest of power.
don't be surprised when building defenses doesn't reach people; bridges reach people.