It emboldens the mean-spirited and offers them a huge audience for spewing hatred and libel.
Jokes become nasty, profane and mean-spirited, while tempers begin to flare as shouting becomes more acceptable.
Psy gives us all the enjoyment of a more mean-spirited YouTube phenom with none of the downside.
Rather than immediately defending him or her, or dismissing the feedback as wrong or mean-spirited, really stop and consider it.
So rather than hurling accusations about big-government liberals or mean-spirited conservatives, we're going to have to answer those tough questions.
He said the MoD's court action was "probably the most mean-spirited penny pinching way you can treat these incredible people".
Hence the undignified competition between Mr Straw and Ann Widdecombe, his Tory shadow, to appear more mean-spirited than the other.
That can only be done by changing perceptions of the party's motives above all, the belief that Tories are mean-spirited and selfish.
The party's opposition to gay marriage not only makes them look mean-spirited.
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Mirror-gazing, sex-obsessed, rivalrous, mean-spirited children who are driving civility into the gutter?
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Like millions of other people, she had a stalker who had been harassing her by repeatedly calling and sending her offensive and mean-spirited texts.
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The international response, in comparison with the tsunami, has been mean-spirited.
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Despite the attempt at authenticity through the use of real and recognizable New York locations, the gleefully mean-spirited humor quickly ramps up to a ludicrous implausibility.
And because, like Ian Fleming's antihero, James Bond (the mean-spirited book version, not the amusing movie one), Gillette engages us with his enviable panache and awesome courage.
Among some, there was a mean-spirited celebration of his failed championship predictions and related baggage that disguised the truly good season he had in reaching the championship precipice.
And his mean-spirited comments certainly seem like bad business.
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You can add a wireless camera to use it for remote spy tactics or strap on a laser pointer to burn enemies' corneas play mean-spirited red dot target jokes on your friends.
"It's not negative, its not mean-spirited to be out there and bringing to light the other candidate's record and the other candidate's associations, which are very, very, very troubling for America, " Palin said.
And he was a figure of wild romance compared to my dinner partner, who just happened to be a single man, presumably the last one on earth oh Lord, how miserably mean-spirited I sound!
How can the Republicans, who need to find an agenda for next year's elections, be critical without seeming either mean-spirited or ideologically reckless or, if they blunt the attack on the tobacco companies, corrupt?
So I just want to show a little sympathy here for those who are trying to enforce the law -- they're not mean-spirited, they're just trying to -- they're working with the system that was set up.
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Nimbyist tendencies are not just mean-spirited, though.
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In Tampa the GOP presented a rational, benevolent and constructive case for governance, while in Charlotte the Democrats were mainly emotional, mean-spirited, and vindictive, presenting a case for still more wealth envy, class warfare, business-bashing, and statism.
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And finally, we have mean-spirited people.
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Rich Armitage's mean-spirited partisanship is especially evident in the fact that neither he, nor Mr. Powell nor their lawyer, then-State Department Legal Advisor William Taft IV, saw fit to inform the White House that Armitage was the source of the Novak leak.
When the House of Representatives passed the most mean-spirited provision that said, if you were to give any help whatsoever to someone here illegally, you would commit a crime, I stood up and said that would have criminalized the Good Samaritan and Jesus Christ himself.
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