I hear what you’re trying to say, but honestly no. Not when I’ve been hearing that American literacy has been going down and most college kids nowadays can’t even read a whole book; and not when I mention several times that Trump is worse for Americans - and I even made an explicit mention of Trump censoring scientists, which is a case where he banned words such as “LGBTQ+” from scientific papers - and then someone replied lecturing me about how much worse Trump would be for Trans people and Americans. Like, yeah, no shit, I said that.
I think people just saw I disagreed with whatever stance they had and got angry, got even angrier when they saw how much of an ass I was being (in my defence, I wasn’t an ass first, and I was sick of reading the same fucking comment under every Palestine thread) and just skimmed most of what I said and proceed to try to argue with me without even trying to understand what I said.
Which frankly makes these conversations exhausting for me, because I’m actually trying to read what people are saying and replying, but most replies I get seem to not put any effort in turn.
Well, I got lambasted for not being American and having an opinion on the topic, and the person who did it got quite highly upvoted. What conclusion would you draw? Plus I also recognize your username and (while I’m not 100% sure) I’m pretty confident you are American too. And to my knowledge Americans made up the bulk of Lemmy. Seems like a safe assumption to make 🤷♂️
But I think that you have shown that you care much more about being right than you do about being understood,
Why do people always love to project so much 🙄
I made it explicitly clear I thought Trump was worse several times. I could not have been more clear if I had made a drawing. And I know that you realized that, because at one point your tone completely changed, and you got a lot less condescending and confrontational than you had been before. But you still can’t just say “my bad, sorry, I just had a knee-jerk reaction when you criticized the Dems”.
I hear what you’re trying to say, but honestly no. Not when I’ve been hearing that American literacy has been going down and most college kids nowadays can’t even read a whole book; and not when I mention several times that Trump is worse for Americans - and I even made an explicit mention of Trump censoring scientists, which is a case where he banned words such as “LGBTQ+” from scientific papers - and then someone replied lecturing me about how much worse Trump would be for Trans people and Americans. Like, yeah, no shit, I said that.
I think people just saw I disagreed with whatever stance they had and got angry, got even angrier when they saw how much of an ass I was being (in my defence, I wasn’t an ass first, and I was sick of reading the same fucking comment under every Palestine thread) and just skimmed most of what I said and proceed to try to argue with me without even trying to understand what I said.
Which frankly makes these conversations exhausting for me, because I’m actually trying to read what people are saying and replying, but most replies I get seem to not put any effort in turn.
Assuming everyone here is American really makes me think you’re blaming the wrong party.
Well, I got lambasted for not being American and having an opinion on the topic, and the person who did it got quite highly upvoted. What conclusion would you draw? Plus I also recognize your username and (while I’m not 100% sure) I’m pretty confident you are American too. And to my knowledge Americans made up the bulk of Lemmy. Seems like a safe assumption to make 🤷♂️
I am a dual national and I am currently in Blackburn, Lancashire, UK.
But I think that you have shown that you care much more about being right than you do about being understood, so I think I can move on.
Why do people always love to project so much 🙄
I made it explicitly clear I thought Trump was worse several times. I could not have been more clear if I had made a drawing. And I know that you realized that, because at one point your tone completely changed, and you got a lot less condescending and confrontational than you had been before. But you still can’t just say “my bad, sorry, I just had a knee-jerk reaction when you criticized the Dems”.