EEllis wrote:The Annoyed Man wrote:
THAT is the federal government that EEllis extolls. He can have it.
I didn't extoll crap. I explained where a phrase came from and why it wasn't true none of which you contradicted in your little rant. Isn't there a conspiracy theory site you can vomit your bile all over instead of making your messes here? Progressive? Sure don't dink the Koolaid and say how tasty it is then out come folks who insult and try to marginalize.
Ah, you added a sentence just before I hit the reply button. Touched a nerve, did we?
Edited to add: EEllis, you may not realize this about yourself, but your "explanations" (which term I think you might have deleted before I could quote it.....or, to be fair, I might have read it in one of your posts in another thread, but I think it applies here)
often come off as "justifications", not "explanations". And a lot of members here—by FAR not just me—react to your posts exactly the same way......that you are justifying, not explaining. So if you
sound like you are justifying something that just isn't right, well..... maybe you are not, but people can only react to what they see/hear/read.
And, I want to add one more thing here.... a LOT of people like me grow bone-weary reading posts (here and elsewhere) by people whose "explanations" are more than just a tad condescending. I can go to Huffpo, or Quora, or The Daily Kos, and be lectured to by people who
begin with the assumption that, if I do not agree with them, then I am probably not bright enough to have their advanced intuitions.....but that if they just say it slowly and clearly, with only just a
dab of snark (after all, lecturing me wouldn't be any fun if they didn't think they could sneak in some joke that they imagine went over my head), then
maybe they can enlighten me.
Here's the deal, I don't buy into that crap anymore than you claim not to, and a LOT of your posts—whether you do it intentionally or unconsciously—come off as justification, and condescension.
BELIEVE me when I say that I don't like getting toyed with anymore than you do......
especially at one of those other sites by some pimply-faced college sophomore who has just discovered Sartre and existentialism, and thinks that he has a lock on intellectual precision.
IF you are being misunderstood, you share in the blame if it blows up in your face.....maybe not all of it, but you do share in it. But if you want to make peace, I am willing to make peace. Just please don't condescend any longer.