(01-07-2020 04:29 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(01-07-2020 12:45 PM)mrbig Wrote:  

(01-07-2020 10:33 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(01-06-2020 05:48 PM)mrbig Wrote:  

(01-06-2020 05:14 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  I try to be nice but you take offense at imagined slurs.

Imagined slurs? You clearly believe I am "inadvertently" supporting terrorists. If it is inadvertent, then you are suggesting that I am just too stupid to realize what I am doing. If I am supporting terrorists on purpose and you are just trying to be PC by calling it inadvertent, then you are calling me a traitor. I don't understand how else to take your comment and follow-up explanations.

(01-06-2020 05:14 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  I did not mean you were supporting terrorists directly. That is where you are too literal. What I meant was that by opposing the person opposing them,y’all are siding with them. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The friend of my enemy is my enemy. When the Democrats and Iranians have common cause, these sayings are true.

I think your reading/description of the situation is way to black & white. Easy example - North Korea has good relationships with China, India, and Russia. Following your logic, all 3 of those countries should be our enemies. But I think our relationship with China is better described as competitors (rather than enemies) and we have a pretty good relationship with India that is being tested lately. I'm OK saying Russia is close to being an enemy at this point, though they are an enemy we need to talk to and work with, not fight.

This post is astonishing. In one part, you tell me that my statement means either you are stupid or a terrorist. No other explanations apply. Then, in the next breath, you tell me I am too black and white. Ever seen a mirror? On top of that, all the stuff about Siths, when you are saying there are absolutely only two, extreme, interpretations.

I would attribute it to being a lawyer, but we have two other lawyers here, and they generally make sense,

I think you are just so determined to be offended, you have to take these little detours.

Well, I must go, perhaps for the day.

Have a good one.

If you provide me an explanation for you calling me an inadvertent terrorist sympathizer that I should not be offended by, I am happy to hear it. I could only come up with a couple explanations and I found them all equally offensive, just for different reasons. It wasn't a situation of black/white sith thinking (by the way I didn't make any sith references, that was Lad). I brainstormed and provided the only options that made sense. I'm happy to listen to other explanations. Stupid and traitor aren't opposite sides of a spectrum with a lot in between, so your sith comment doesn't really make sense. If anything, they are two bad but different things on the same end of the spectrum.

I'm not determined to be offended. I have a 14-year-old son who has called me almost everything in the book, although he hasn't called me a terrorist sympathizer (yet). I have thick skin. I do counsel against being intentionally offensive and I believe calling someone a terrorist sympathizer was intentionally offensive and factually incorrect.

Thanks, I do plan to have a good one. The plumber fixed my downstairs toilet this morning, the kids were on time to school, work is a little slow today, the sun is shining brightly, and my wife is cooking steak tonight!

I hope you have a great day as well!

Maybe you are just determined to misinterpret what I said. I have explained it several times and see no use in doing it again. Tired of repeating myself to deaf ears. It’s all there in the record. Go back and read it again.

What if, hear me out, you're not explaining yourself as well as you think?

It seems like you think I'm misinterpreting you in another thread as well.