• GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        "People who disagree with me have an agenda. People who ask me to explain what the agenda is are tedious."

          • Zodiark [he/him]
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            8 months ago

            You're not explaining yourself to garbageshoot, you're explaining to the rest of us.

            Please consider putting more effort into your posts instead of asking us to Intuit and vibe our way to your viewpoint.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            8 months ago

            All this effort instead of just explaining what my agenda is doing

      • space_comrade [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        You're really being a baby about this. You don't get to be pissy because people aren't impressed by your puddle-deep analysis.

        • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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          8 months ago

          People shouldn't badger, and that was what I took exception with. I'm happy to engage in a good faith disagreement, but person was being a douche nozzle about it and it wasn't worth that level of drama, which is why I backed out.

          • space_comrade [he/him]
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            8 months ago

            but person was being a douche nozzle

            No he wasn't, he gave you a reasonable, if slightly rude response to your argument and you didn't respond back but instead just started bitching about "agendas". You're the douche nozzle tbh, if you can't handle people on an anonymous forum being slightly snarky at you maybe just log off.

            • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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              8 months ago

              Not really, though. Person took great exception to my opinion and was determined to make me accept defeat instead of just accepting that people can hold different beliefs. There is absolutely no point in engaging with someone like that any more than there is engaging with an angry person on Facebook. His agenda was the need to win the argument at all costs rather than assume that someone can have a different belief set.

              • space_comrade [he/him]
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                8 months ago

                His agenda was the need to win the argument at all costs rather than assume that someone can have a different belief set.

                Yeah that's how Internet discussions work genius, not every discussion needs to end with "ah man it's all so complicated it's ok to have different beliefs", you're allowed to have a strong opinion on things.

                Your agenda is to hide behind some vague concept of civility instead of actually engaging in the discussion. Literally nobody forced you to respond to his comment at all if you found it so grating, you consciously chose to be loudly pissy about it.

                • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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                  8 months ago

                  No, my agenda is that I am allowed my opinions and I don't have to explain myself if I don't want to. Your argument is that I am required at all times to fully explain everything I ever say. It doesn't work that way, I have a right to disengage. I disengaged with that person and I am disengaging with you. Neither of these conversations are worth the amount of effort I have been forced to expend on them, and that is time and energy that will be lost from me forever.

                  • space_comrade [he/him]
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                    8 months ago

                    I have a right to disengage.

                    You had that right also like 10 comments ago. You just have a bruised ego because people on the Internet dared to not just nod along to whatever bullshit you were saying.