ajax18 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 10:36 pm
Oh no. Now you are just being totally dishonest. You've expressed a number of reasons that you feel contempt for me. Among them, after decades of working my ass off, I don't work. After decades of living below my means, the only thing I'm in hock for is the food on my table, the utilities, insurance, etc. And as I've stated many times on the previous board, I still live below my means.
All of this is commendable and I have no reason to resent any of this. I never have.
Now you're attempting to twist the conversation to what you would like it to be. I'm not giving away crap to anyone and if it doesn't belong to me, then it doesn't belong to you to "fight for" in the imaginary war you're having in your head. Now I'm giving away an entire country. Such reasoning skills are not to be believed.
That's exactly what Democrats and Brackite like Republicans have done.
The land we inherited? You mean the land we slaughtered and forced relocated indigenous tribes for? That land? We inherited exactly nothing. We STOLE it and not only that, we forced human beings into slavery to develop it. You know what, bury my heart at Wounded Knee, let freedom ring, and take every opportunity to go screw yourself as you see fit for as long as you feel a need to.
Then give your own land and inheritance away if you think it was obtained immorally. That still gives you no right to give mine away.
Okay, here it is ajax. Cards totally on the table. When I attempt to engage you, I feel like you are shape shifting right before my very eyes. I don't know if you are even aware that you're changing the subject of what you previously wrote.
I credit myself with being able to connect and communicate with most anyone. I credit myself with being able to connect and with communicate with young humans who have very few words with which to express themselves and so I read their behavior and I'm very, very, good at that.
I'm interested in people. I want to know what they think, believe, and why they make the choices and take the positions that they do. I don't look at people as a faceless group with a label on it as if the label accurately identified everything each one of the persons in the group thinks, believes, or how they behave. From my earliest beginnings in life (and I am not embellishing here)I saw people as individuals that think and behave differently and for differing reasons. And that is how I view every single person I encounter be it in real life or in unreal life on a board like this.
I look at you the same exact way.
But this is what I can't do. I can't make repeated attempts to communicate with and give someone an honest ride around here, when they aren't willing to do the same. I think Cam calls it a good faith argument. That's something you don't do, ajax. Either you don't know what it is, don't know how to do it or don't know that it's even an expectation.
Or maybe you are just in denial and when someone homes in on what you've said, you deflect because you can't see your way clear to acknowledging that the other guy might be right and I don't think you see challenge as something positive when challenge is at the very heart of learning something new.
In any case, life is too short for this crap. It just is. If there are folks here who want to keep trying to engage you they are free to do that. If there are folks here who play with you like you're a cat toy and if you are willing to play, feel free to do that.
But just know this. I was never playing.