(02-03-2022 11:22 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(02-02-2022 03:21 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  I could care less if you liked me - that wasn't part of the equation. It has nothing to do with me being a great guy - again, not part of the equation.

It's that you think you know me and how I act at all times. You let this opinion color almost every interaction you have with me, and biases them extremely. Be it taking comments in the worst light possible or, explicitly in this instance, thinking I don't push back on friends of mine who are "on my side" when they won't let common ground be found.

I'm not trying to project or portray myself as St Lad, and I've never tried to do that.

I just find it funny that once again, you focus on the meaningless... miss entirely the point of the comments and then 'blame me' for you doing so.

My comments weren't about you actually being a saint or me potentially liking you... they were simply about your claim that my view of you isn't accurate... when it is EXACTLY whom you've portrayed yourself to be. Those were just the polar opposites of the reality.

I think you don't push back because I've never seen you do it. If that isn't true (as you imply) then how is that in ANY way my fault, or based on what logic in human history am I supposed to assume that you are not exactly whom you represent yourself to be?

Funny though, I never said a word about how you act in real life or how you speak to your friends. Pretty obviously I can only speak to what you've done on here. So why do you even bring all that drivel up? Even more interesting... You imply that if I DID know you, I'd think differently about you... but rather than actually tell me something different about you... like an example where a 'friend' did something and you pushed back (which is what you imply happens for you, even though I said nothing about your friends)... you simply continue with your persona of deflection.

In all seriousness lad... I don't give a rats ass what you and your friends talk about... what I care about is what you do publicly that might actually influence people on your side of the aisle to change... whom you vote for.... as that also influences them to change. If what you do with your friends makes them less polarizing, that's great. I haven't seen it and you missed a perfect opportunity to enlighten me in favor of being divisive... while complaining about me be unenlightened and divisive.

You haven’t seen me push back on people calling you a racist because I’ve never seen that happen on this board!

Seriously, you’re making an assumption about how I act based on no data set that is available. Seriously, it would be good for you to point to a discussion on this board I was involved in where someone called someone else on this board a racist - at least then I would get why you think this of me.

I bring up how I act in real life because you have brought it up - specially how I act to random people “on my side of the issue”:

“ I am very serious in my question and the issue at hand is how we generally agree on an issue, but we can't remotely come to any common ground because people 'on your side' of the issue (meaning not you... but way left of you... but far closer to you than me) won't let YOU find common ground with me, and you are in many ways complicit with this because you don't push back on it.”