As opposed to the ‘official uniform’ all the others are wearing?

I’m going to be honest, I have no idea what you’re on about now. You said something happens, I offered a potential theory, you can take it or leave it. Based on this thread alone, I’ve seen you responding aggressively to people entirely unprompted, and accusing them of saying things they haven’t. I’m not sure how much more productive conversation we could have, I’m willing to try, but I think the best shout might be to just draw a line under things there.

For you, the day free buses graced your village was the most important day in your life, but for me? It was Tuesday.

I think it’s probably contextual, the single word insults might fit better with the thread they’re in. But here, you’ve waded into a thread on a specific subject to insult and berate people for (supposedly) not being excited enough about a different subject. And then respond to anyone trying to give you feedback by accusing them of not being excited enough about that other subject despite them saying nothing about it.

I’ve heard that ‘lots of people’ are saying it.

Hard disagree, I’ve not seen a single person disagreeing with your points, only with the way you’ve raised them. Nor have I seen anyone express displeasure about the VA results, despite you talking about how ‘they’ are downplaying it.

In the interest of not stoking more argument, I would urge you to take a moment to read and parse the responses you’ve got here, and see if they natch up with what you think people are saying to you.

I’ll just reply to both your replies, and original edit here, rather than separately. And just for reference, I haven’t voted on any of your comments.

For me, it came off as disingenuous because you threw out an unrelated comment, seemingly to paint Muslim charter schools in a negative light, with no source, which came across in a similar vein to those who tell people to ‘do your own research’, or indeed who are ‘just asking questions’.

I appreciate that you went back to look into it further, and maybe my response was overly combative; if so I apologise. But for future reference, the burden of proof is generally on those making a claim, not those trying to refute it, so that is likely where some of the negativity you’ve received is coming from.

I might hazard to guess that some of the down votes are because of the aggressive tone you took, it doesn’t exactly invite a friendly discussion. I appreciate that politics are a charged subject at the best of times, but I think the anger needs to be channelled more effectively, maybe now more than ever. Which is to say that I fully agree with your statement about needing to avoid division.

The unfortunate trouble with written communication, where you can’t pick up on tone as easily. I’m not a fan of using /s, as I think it takes away from the comment, but I can see how it can be helpful to avoid misunderstandings.

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No, the comment I replied to suggested acknowledging and addressing voters’ concerns, I sarcastically suggested the opposite.

Feel like your response to my, admittedly facetious, comment is overly aggressive. Obviously tactics need to be geared towards the voters in a given area/election, but the original joke I responded to is that this seems like an obvious tactic that is not utilised nearly enough, and I agree with and was building on that.

So you’re saying Democrats need to move politically to the right and promote the status quo, to appeal more to centrist voters?

Firstly, what does that have to do with the topic at hand?

Secondly, you went from a series of Muslim schools to one over the course of a couple of sentences. Is this a supposed widespread issue or isolated incident?

Thirdly, any sources for any of this at all? Or are you ‘just asking questions’?

So basically the same as in other areas, investment in getting things right will be better for everyone in the long run, but might make it a bit harder right now, so no politician will commit to it because voters are incredibly shortsighted. So instead we get more and more cuts, very rarely in the right areas, and things end up worse for everyone but the elite in the end.

VPNs for me, not for thee.

Reasonable gun control measures to reduce gun violence, especially in schools vs. blocking any possible dissenters of a fascist regime from defending themselves. I’d say that the latter sounds like a bad idea.

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Racist.

So safe. This time it was a kid, but next time he might not be so lucky. It could be a delivery driver! The mailman! Someone getting the wrong address! Scary scary times we live in.