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I assumed nothing. I actually put the Trump issue in there to avoid a political discussion, as I think everyone has had enough of the "Trump bad" crap from the
by downandout 10y ago
I assumed nothing. I actually put the Trump issue in there to avoid a political discussion, as I think everyone has had enough of the "Trump bad" crap from the Valley crowd. I was essentially saying "you needn't reply if this is the nonsense you have based your 'monster' comment on". It of course had the opposite effect because liberal heads explode when they see Trump's name written anywhere there is a comments section, but that wasn't the intent.
- kbenson 10y agoI think what we had is a failure of interpretation based on some ambiguity in the wording. To my eyes, it appeared not that you were trying to avoid that conversation, but starting it (see my other recent comment on this topic, in which I almost added the gist of this comment). This was, to use again an overused and currently debated term, me projecting. That said, I see this as a somewhat unavoidable part of communication, and I didn't necessarily meanit in a pejorative manner when I originally used it. My original comment could have been paraphrased as "hey, please don't bring that stuff up without real cause or evidence if it's not the current topic. It's makes things toxic fairly quickly."