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You keep doing this thing where you just casually state things I didn't say.
I didn't say: "online progressive can't handle my reality-based take"
i said
"online progressives dislike opinions that run contrary to their own"
maybe you all are right, maybe I'm right. Who can say
But this discontent many may feel about my manner of presentation or the content of the opinion, isn't a data point that refutes my claims.
and if I was acting the exact same way but it was in support of the consensus opinion, undoubtedly people would feel a lot differently about it.
-I have directly addressed your claims about defunding the police and the Dems election results. You seem to be ignoring that to focus on be saying you made an *** of yourself to act like that is the totality of my criticism of your arguments. When in reality, I am making multiple objections. Some objections are that some of your takes are bad and you don't have evidence to back them up, secondly, you made yourself look like an *** with how you acted during the discussion. So if you got an issue with me misrepresenting your position, the feeling is mutual
I am not using other people's opinions as a data point to refute your claims. I am using it as a data point that you made an *** of yourself by the way you acted, beyond your takes on defunding the police. I am not just talking about you holding an opinion that goes against most of the thread.
If you want to people to address exactly what you say when you say it, and not make inferences based on your other comments. Then do the same for others, because you rely on that rhetorical move a ton too. People were calling this out during your rant and you acted like people were just having problems with your take. You do that **** to me all the time as well
(BTW, if you are taking issue about supposedly misrepresenting what you said, it is kinda convenient you skip over the part of my post where I quote your words from a few months back saying you don't have any evidence to back up your point about defunding the police costing the Dems the election. But yeah, alternate reality.)
-Also Others can say if they agree with my assessment if you made an *** of yourself. If you claim that my post was not ground in reality, then other people can weigh in on whose take is more representative of what happened. The thing is, you know other people will disagree with your take, so you want to act like they have a grievance (the fact you said something they disagreed with) that will prevent them from giving an honest assessment.
I know being an internet a-hole is your schtick. Sometimes it is funny, sometimes not.
And Yes, maybe people agree with the a-hole, the a-hole will get less heat. The contrarian a-hole will get tons. That doesn't mean they are not *******s.
It wasn't just about people not liking your takes. Famb, you went full buffoon toward the end when you were getting pressed. Telling people they were just trying to punish the police and other flippant nonsense people wanted to defund the police to pay for M4A.
You can feel different about what happened, but I think reality is on my side.
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