"Le Petit Pain"

sorry to tell you, but pard is not "the world", and again, it really reveals more about you than about me if you consider a simple disagreement as 'burning bridges'. i'm here to discuss politics, not to compromise my views for the sake of being e-buddies with some rand from across the globe. if you have good arguments, present them, i will happily read and think about them, but if they don't convince me i won't tip toe around your feelings, just to keep my fanclub of butthurt idiots small.

back to topic, i think there is a difference between someone who's genuinely passionate about something, and someone who has clearly just been indoctrinated by their parents / teachers, and you generally get a pretty good sense where they are coming from when you listen to them dealing with critical questions concerning their cause / passion. i generally agree that using kids as political props is gross, no matter if you support or reject the cause, but again, it's important to distinguish if that is actually the case, or just an excuse to dismiss something you simply don't like to be confronted with.

i could say that this kind of unreflected and arrogant dismissal of something that doesn't fit your narrative is typical of a biden supporter who thinks they are entitled to something they have no credibility on, but that would probably be to broad (and petty) of a statement...

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LMAO!

God I love my Senator. For someone who leans right, Feinstein is about as good as it gets for California. We could do SO much worse.

You can do whatever, there's just usually a sense of decorum among people. Perhaps a degree of "picking your battles". If the person who you argue with all the time posts something you basically agree with, you can nitpick the point of disagreement, or just focus on others. I get it though, you've shown yourself to be incapable of this sort of thing. That's fine with me.

And... the rest of your post just shows how silly and petty you are. At this point in my reply I'm wondering why I ever bothered to try to discuss issues with you in good faith. I thought all the regulars were just trolling you because you're abrasive and arrogant... now I'm thinking it's more than that.

Welcome to the "butthurt idiots." Fanclub +1

It's sort of amazing. The Republican party controls the White House and Senate... they call climate change a hoax. And progressives wonder why a Democratic senator isn't supporting a 50+ trillion dollar climate change bill.

Compromise is sacrilege among Trump and Bernie supporters... it would mean giving up the fight for a little while. Agreeing with the enemy is betrayal.

let me remind you that you were the one abandoning good faith, apparently based on the assumption that i wouldn't disagree with something just because i obviously agree with the other part of your post. again, it was entirely your choice to make this personal - my reply was entirely on topic, inquiring about the worldview underlying your assumptions.

it was also entirely your choice to completely ignore the actual issue (the question if greta thunberg is just a political pawn, as right wing propaganda suggests to dismiss her message, or if she fights for genuinely held and critically questioned beliefs) entirely, and exclusively focus on petty squabbling, acting entitled to having disagreements ignored for the sake of 'compromise', just so you won't join the circlejerk of butthurt idiots, who value their feelings over facts. sorry, but a fragile ego doesn't become a less pathetic reason to abandon debate just because others paved that way already...



and that post is the perfect example for my last point: the problem was never 'disagreeing for the sake of it' - that's a completely fabricated narrative that doesn't even remotely characterise the issue. as you yourself pointed out, we actually ARE in agreement about a significant portion of your post, so that whole statement you just made is pure ego protection.

stick on this stick babe