When Rush Limbaugh was the target of boycotts and online mobs, during the Sandra Fluke controversy, he hired people to track down the people behind it. It was a couple dozen people guided by Media Matters.
Rush didn't go after Media Matters.
He went after the individuals who were blue collar workers, retired grandmothers, a couple professors, public school teachers, etc. On his website, he published their names, addressed, and telephone numbers, setting up a situation to where they were incessantly harassed and run out of their towns. Most ended up being fired from their jobs. Others Rush was able to successfully bankrupt because he brought hell down on them via tortuous interference suits.
Something to keep in mind about "Muh Principles" and "Don't hit them back".
If you don't hit them back when you're in power, but they hit you with impunity when they are in power, they'll just hit you when they're in power again and again, until the lopsided advantage gives them power forever.
As your kids have the jackboot of authoritarian stamp on their face forever, they'll thank you for demonstrating restraint and principles to posterity.
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Rush didn't go after Media Matters.
He went after the individuals who were blue collar workers, retired grandmothers, a couple professors, public school teachers, etc. On his website, he published their names, addressed, and telephone numbers, setting up a situation to where they were incessantly harassed and run out of their towns. Most ended up being fired from their jobs. Others Rush was able to successfully bankrupt because he brought hell down on them via tortuous interference suits.
He sowed the fields with salt and NEVER again did the Left whip up an online mob against him targeting his advertisers.
https://x.com/GraduatedBen/status/1813586406171660433
Something to keep in mind about "Muh Principles" and "Don't hit them back".
If you don't hit them back when you're in power, but they hit you with impunity when they are in power, they'll just hit you when they're in power again and again, until the lopsided advantage gives them power forever.
As your kids have the jackboot of authoritarian stamp on their face forever, they'll thank you for demonstrating restraint and principles to posterity.