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There are certain topics that destroy otherwise rational discussions. You know this. We all know this. So why bring it up in an unrelated thread? All it does

• killjoywashere 9y ago
  OP here. In response to your question, I was seizing on a well-known phenomenon (voters responding to a hollow jobs promise) to make an illustrative comparison to my thesis, another situation that evokes similar behavior. To me, it was like being in a thread about trees and saying "Trees are green, you know, like money." The "like money" part, was just a comparison.