This is another pretty good one. You sound so confident when taking my detailed point-by-point response and categorizing it as “nothing of value” and airily dismissing it, that you can keep the conversation going without needing to make any kind of response. Someone who’s not reading critically will simply see it as “a disagreement” between two people who are being pretty disagreeable with each other.
Then, you’re recapturing a little psychological edge by telling me what to do. If I obey, and respond to your question, you’ve set a good precedent to be able to just do the same type of thing again: Announce that I have failed, and nothing I said had any value, and keep the conversation going, making some firmly insistent counterpoints and talking down to me. It’s easy for someone who reads your response to read the signals and come to the conclusion that I am the one that’s wrong. If I refuse, though, it makes me look like I don’t have a good response.
Excerpting only the part of my message where I was kind of a dick, and responding more or less in kind, is a really effective technique. You’re choosing what part of my message is the part that’s going to be featured in the ensuing conversation. And, if I call back to all the stuff I said that you didn’t respond to, I sort of sound like I’m whining about it and trying to control the conversation.
Fine. I will ignore the snarky elements of this message and simply ask you
If you want to add something of value to this discussion inform me on what Harris would have actually done to help Ukraine or give them anything substantively different than what Trump is offering.
Fine. I will ignore the blatant attempt to redirect the conversation ignoring everything I said, and simply ask you.
How are you trying to get away with saying that Ukraine can’t recapture any territory with the West’s help, when they did exactly that in 2022? Why are you ignoring Trump actively trying to sabotage Ukraine aid and risk the semi-stalemate turning into an outright loss, which is a pretty fuckin’ salient difference and what he got impeached for? And also, presumably, what he is teeing up to do again by offering unacceptable peace terms to Ukraine right now? Whose fault is it, solely and completely, that the Budapest Memorandum didn’t assure Ukraine’s security in this instance?
This is another pretty good one. You sound so confident when taking my detailed point-by-point response and categorizing it as “nothing of value” and airily dismissing it, that you can keep the conversation going without needing to make any kind of response. Someone who’s not reading critically will simply see it as “a disagreement” between two people who are being pretty disagreeable with each other.
Then, you’re recapturing a little psychological edge by telling me what to do. If I obey, and respond to your question, you’ve set a good precedent to be able to just do the same type of thing again: Announce that I have failed, and nothing I said had any value, and keep the conversation going, making some firmly insistent counterpoints and talking down to me. It’s easy for someone who reads your response to read the signals and come to the conclusion that I am the one that’s wrong. If I refuse, though, it makes me look like I don’t have a good response.
Excerpting only the part of my message where I was kind of a dick, and responding more or less in kind, is a really effective technique. You’re choosing what part of my message is the part that’s going to be featured in the ensuing conversation. And, if I call back to all the stuff I said that you didn’t respond to, I sort of sound like I’m whining about it and trying to control the conversation.
Like I say, pretty impressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmVkJvieaOA
Fine. I will ignore the snarky elements of this message and simply ask you
If you want to add something of value to this discussion inform me on what Harris would have actually done to help Ukraine or give them anything substantively different than what Trump is offering.
Fine. I will ignore the blatant attempt to redirect the conversation ignoring everything I said, and simply ask you.
How are you trying to get away with saying that Ukraine can’t recapture any territory with the West’s help, when they did exactly that in 2022? Why are you ignoring Trump actively trying to sabotage Ukraine aid and risk the semi-stalemate turning into an outright loss, which is a pretty fuckin’ salient difference and what he got impeached for? And also, presumably, what he is teeing up to do again by offering unacceptable peace terms to Ukraine right now? Whose fault is it, solely and completely, that the Budapest Memorandum didn’t assure Ukraine’s security in this instance?