I wasn't fishing for a contradiction, I actually think it's healthy to have an opinion or two that don't fit the consensus of a person's particular political group as it shows they're critically thinking about each individual topic, rather than just subscribing wholesale to the stance of whatever 'tribe' they see themselves as part of.

I'm not saying this applies to you btw, I'm just explaining that I wasn't trying to catch you out in any way.

I believe you also used 'selfish', but fair play, maybe 'hurling insults' is a bit on the hyperbolic side.

I think you're conflating 'bad faith' with what what you would perceive as 'uninformed'. If you think Chrkeller's stance is wrong then why not just provide evidence to the contrary or a counter argument, without the aspersions?

Anyway, I don't see much road left in this particular convo. As you can see from my post history, I'm not going around tut-tut'ing everyone for being mean or 'tone policing'. If someone is using unconstructive language in a debate about what process node the Switch 2 GPU will be manufactured on I don't really care.

However, I see politics as much more important & it truly terrifies me that the US could feasibly elect Trump again. I obviously don't live in the US but the UK is very much down-stream from a lot of what happens in the States. I'd love to see the left trying in general to be a bit more charitable/tolerant of divergent views (within reason of course) and bring people over, rather than condescend & risk driving people to MAGA.

i feel like this is just a debate forum lol. (or rather, an argument forum…nobody’s debating in good faith, otherwise they’d be willing to concede that yes, you’re vote holds no power in the USA, because at the end of the day, there’ll always be a genocide in Gaza, meatgrinders in Ukraine and likely Taiwan, our infrastructure will continue to decay, and no lasting progress will truly be made to lift people from impoverished communities.)

All I want is for schools to be funded a little bit better, is this too much to ask for? But no! Let’s talk about the Hunter Biden, or let’s talk about how bad the other side is!…instead of enforcing policy. :)

Yep, nobody’s debating in good faith…….says the guy who claims our votes don’t matter and both sides are the same.

dinosaur man looking for a reason to care: … (he can’t find a reason so he just acts like there’s stuff to actually care about).

You tell me when me voting changes the Ukrainian, Israeli, Taiwanese situation. ;)

dinosaur man looking for a reason to care: … (he can’t find a reason so he just acts like there’s stuff to actually care about).

You tell me when me voting changes the Ukrainian, Israeli, Taiwanese situation. ;)

Seeing how aid packages for these regions probably would have been passed a long time ago if Dems controlled the House, yeah, I'd say voting matters.

(…Aid packages? Why not just leave the regions?)