MACS wrote:Hey Victor... serious question for you.
Can you have adversarial discourse without being condescending? I'll try if you will.
Frankie tripod and I have shown it can be done.
Been there done that, got the t-shirt.
If you bother looking at my old posts from when I first joined you'd see I attempted to sway people as best I could. I used logic, supporting facts, I tried to be understanding of their point of view.
What did it get me? nothing but acrimonious and idiotic responses. At best I would get the equivalent of "well that's just your opinion".... (side note, I was speaking with my step-aunt after years of not seeing her, funerals gathering family and all that crap, and I mentioned that trump doesn't speak in complete sentences... her response was "well that's your opinion." As if complete sentences is a matter of opinion....)
I'm done with that now. I've been done with it ever since Jpotts tried to back up rugrunner's complete inability to understand how an average works when providing statistics. Why should I bother spending effort trying to change someone's mind when they are unwilling to even agree with me about a mathematical concept.
So I'm not trying to have a "adversarial discourse without being condescending". I'm simply amusing myself pointing out things I find to be stupid. You know, like someone saying "they should just move to a different state if they don't like that they don't have the same rights others do in that state"... then in the next breath talking about how they can't currently leave the state they want to leave and how it's so hard because there's taxes....
Or the idea that someone is willing to purposely make life hard for a group of people... not because they think that group of people will do something wrong.... but because they're afraid straight pedophiles will pretend to be part of that group so they can leer at little girls....
Or the idea that you're an "alpha male"....