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hockeybub89 posted...

You were dressed down over and over with regards to your ivermectin bullshit for like years and you just kept sticking your fingers in your ears and going "Oh when will anyone engage in logical debate with me and convince me with facts rather than emotional arguments just like the side they claim to be better then?" You can't even talk about LGBTQ issues without "both sidesing" it! You know what? I don't give a fuck what the other side thinks! They're wrong and I'm not debasing myself by justifying the truth or my existence to people that have no interest in learning, no matter how much enlightened centrists like you try to shame me for "being the same way".

You'd start a debate over whether vegetables are a food if you felt the "pro-vegetable" movement was getting too stubborn and religious-like in their "beliefs".

It's clear you simply fundamentally don't understand me. You are talking to somebody, but that somebody is a strawman who is not and has never been me.

I really can't help you if you are just going to have an argument against your strawman version of me, a version you get to attribute beliefs and motives to that are not mine.

Why even talk to me? You are basically talking to some creation in your head at that point.

I think there is a reasonable person in you, a person who could have a calm discussion about sensitive issues, I feel like some part of the internet bubble has worked you up into a very emotional state, and honestly I don't think it's helpful or constructive for your well being or even your goals. And I do feel bad about it. I don't want you to feel as much intense emotional distress as it seems you are feeling. But I'm not sure if there is anything I could say or do to even help you in that regard. Because I think the version of me that exists in your head is some empathyless monster.

And so I'm open to any suggestions to how I can better communicate with you. But if your only goal is to hate me or convince me to hate myself because you are so sure I am the monster you think I must be, I'm sorry I do that, because I'm not that monster. You and I are simply people who disagree over some political issues, neither of us are bad, neither of us should hate the other. IMO.