"<blank> or something" is an english idiom/phrase that is dismissive of the blank and of the something else. The reader probably jumped to conclusions about you

"<blank> or something" is an english idiom/phrase that is dismissive of the blank and of the something else. The reader probably jumped to conclusions about your meaning/intention from your unintentional use of a phrase which is often used in a dismissive and derisive manner. It would have been interesting to read the discussion of you two getting to the root of why you hold such different beliefs about unions.