To me, Jay sounds more like the Libertarians I know moreso than Republicans.
When you’re so far to the left that you can’t even see the center, everybody looks right-wing.
I see the center, I just don’t like it. Thanks for ignoring my post, by the way. I remember you doing that last time you quit the thread.
At some point, continuing a ceaseless, line-by-line back-and-forth covering four or five different subjects gets a bit tiresome, so rather than continue going in circles and getting so exhausted that I feel the need to step away, I let it drop. Is there some resolution you see on the horizon that I’ve missed?
No, it’s just that you usually suddenly abandon arguments immediately after I make a particularly good refutation of an incorrect assessment of my position. In this case it was a very cogent, though harsh, explanation for my hatred of Ben Shapiro that you totally ignored. You painted me as some guy who is so radical that he hates Ben Shapiro (who is himself as far to the right, if not farther, as I am to the left) for no rational reason. I provide you with that explanation and you ignore it. I think that’s rather disrespectful. If you’re not going to acknowledge my response to something you challenged me on in our conversation then can you at least in the future warn me so I won’t waste my time on composing the post you plan to ignore?
And since when is an explicit acknowledgment of every post required? Pretty sure I could go back through not just this thread, but any number of threads in which I’ve posted, and find instances where I haven’t received a direct reply to a comment and didn’t act entitled to a response. Sometimes, people just have nothing more to say on a particular subject.
It isn’t an entitlement but it’s a common courtesy to actually acknowledge something someone has said to you when you’re engaged in a conversation with them rather than just suddenly ignore it even though you’ve been an equal participant in that conversation up until that point, especially since you’re the one that actually started responding to me. Why even post in the thread if you’re just going to abandon conversations suddenly with no warning whatsoever?
Besides, when I walked away from the thread previously, that had less to do with our interaction and more to do with the general dynamic of the thread at the time. Participation and overall discussion quality have improved since then, so I thought I’d give it another shot.
Discussion quality is irrelevant if you just give up on it without any kind of closure. I actually thought our discussion was going pretty well. Apparently it wasn’t, though. I guess this is another instance of my senses lying to me.