• MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Good faith isn’t just about being polite and sounding civil. It’s about actually engaging with other ideas presented. I don’t believe you’ve done that, as evidenced by simply restating the exact same point again and again - vote Biden because he’s better than Trump - across a dozen replies to me and more to others, despite the fact that they’ve articulated why they either don’t agree or reject that extremely narrow framework altogether.

    You seem to be caught in a trap that everything is about a message that would be accepted if only it was articulated correctly; whether that’s me ‘understanding you’ or politicians ‘hearing us’ despite having directly opposing material interests.

    I understand your meaning. I just don’t agree and reject it for the many reasons I’ve stated.

    The rest I’ve addressed elsewhere.

    So continuing in this circular arguement would be pointless at this point since you clearly have nothing new to add. Hence, PigPoopBalls.

    • notabot@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Good faith isn’t just about being polite and sounding civil. It’s about actually engaging with other ideas presented.

      I concur, and I have genuinely been trying to engage with the ideas people post. You’re right that I have been focused on an extremely narrow framework, because that is what I see before us. I’ve been asking what people suggest doing in that framework because I’m trying to understand people’s position and what actions they think would be appropriate at that scale. The wide points eloquently made by you and other posters involve seem extreme to me, and I accept you may see that as a failing on my part. That makes it hard to engage with them on more than a superficial level. I felt like the conversations continuously ended up with us talking at cross-purposes, which is why I kept trying to bring them back to the points I was trying to understand.

      I still struggle to see how people don’t see trump as a greater threat to their freedom (or whatever freedom they feel they have) than biden, but I’m not trying to change anyone’s mind either, just to comprehend their point of view.

      I thank you for actually continuing to discuss this with me, but I think I’ve tried your patience more than sufficiently, so I’m going to disengage from the various threads we have now.