Quote (fender @ Feb 26 2020 10:44am)
you severely struggle with a very basic but crucial distinction there: addressing the obvious message behind the 'joke', doesn't mean someone simply must not have gotten it.
i mean, i'm well aware how dishonest people like to use that excuse to claim that 'technically' they haven't taken a concrete stance on any given issue, that they just made easily identifiable jokes, and therefore no one could possibly assume their actual position, but that's simply not how that works - at least not when you have a somewhat intelligent 'audience'. sometimes i wonder what kind of people (family, friends, co-workers, teammates...) you deal with in your daily life, if you assume that anyone would fall for such transparent and cheap tactics...
why do you, a german with no practical connection to the american education system, deserve to be engaged seriously?
if i was posting at thor, skinned, ink, or even any american right wingers i'd have formed my responses much differently.
i engage with people in real life with almost unanimous success. left, right, center, or uninterested. its the blessing of being a centrist, i can identify with anyone's perspective.
much like how i have a nuanced stance on bernie, healthcare, and education that ive demonstrated here and you have ignored to continue acting like im an alt right bernie hater. as ive said many times but apparently needs restating, im not against his general direction its the nuances in his pace and approach i disagree with. and anyways, 90% of my "dislike for bernie" is more dislike for his fervent supporters, not even the man himself. supporters i talk with on a weekly basis irl in long form, compared to your tangential internet connection to them.