Published on 12, July, 2020
Just wondered if people on here are happy or unhappy at the general election result last week? I stayed up most of the night to watch the results come in.
It would be wonderful if we could have a calm, logical, reasoned political discussion on here that doesn't result in anger, name calling and the mods locking the thread
Come on guys lets prove we can do it!
Am I hallucinating or have posts in this thread been 'disappeared' in a 'Stalinesque' manner?
Funny you should say that.....I was wondering the same thing.....but I think that there were 3 or 4 threads that were all covering the same basic "arguments" at the same time....so some of the stuff you might expect/remember seeing here is possibly in the "constitutional reform" thread or Ann Other.
Honestly Martin, I couldn't be arssed to keep up....it has been all so predictable....in terms of the ultimate outcomes ie 1. Nobody's mind is changed 2. People who might have been interested simply left due to the heat 3. People who come here for more "support and exploration" socialisation simply buggger off 4. The trenchant folk become ever more trenchant and focused on their own "rightness."
I'm a different breed apparently. No surprises there then!
All good points. I for one have learned that a defining characteristic of Autism is "needlessly taking offence".
I can see clear instances of it in myself and in most, if not all others here, based on what I read.
The question for me, is, "how do we fix this?"
SMI = severe mental illness or serious mental illness
It's when it happens unwittingly, and someone just blows up in my face out of the blue without even asking "Did you really say that?" then I can get close to despair...
What's SMI? I bet it isn't alng the lines of what just popped into my head as soon as I tried a guess.
(Runs off stage to perfom purification ritual)
I can do both too. Even if I'd stayed free of SMI there's no way I could've joined the Foreign office,like my late father did.
I Sperg said:I do both!
you are ambi-insulterous!
Impressive
I do both!
No....thank you. Your ability to clearly express balance, here, is a comfort to me.
Thank you.
I see calm and measured wisdom in your words sir, and not for the first time.
I Sperg said:"needlessly taking offence".
" unwittingly causing offence'