Can you help me to understand this post in the context of your goal not to be offensive or embarrass anyone?
You're a long time poster here. I'd hope you'd know me better than to think I'd try to embarrass anyone. Disagreeing isn't embarrassing someone.
I don't have time to say things I don't mean.
I'm not up on all the latest meanings of everything, but when I say "Yikes", that means I'm surprised by something and sometimes (it does in this case) it means I also disagree with it. To me, it's like saying "Wow".
You wrote: "All I ask is that you give these brave Republican states a chance. Let them secede so they can see what life could be like if they had full control for a while but give them a clear path back to becoming US states if they don't like it."
I'm very surprised by that and I very much disagree with that. So I wrote "Yikes".
I spend a good bit of time here, (some think wasted) urging people toward unity. Or at least just being more cool to each other. Embarrassing someone has no place in either.
I apologize if anything I've written here was seen as trying to embarrass anyone. That's the opposite of my intent. If I'm honest, it's kind of discouraging you'd think it was. But I also am a believer it's on the person writing or talking to be understood. So that's on me if that's how you read it.
Last thought on the seceding or leaving thing. It matters a ton who is saying something. If Clint Eastwood says "I'm moving to Canada if Joe Biden is elected", that's a dumb thing to say in my opinion. But he can say it. Whatever.
But if I say, "Clint, if you don't like it here, you're welcome to move to Canada", that's an entirely different thing.
Now obviously, states are different than people and I'm pretty sure we fought a war over that kind of thing. But from a general view, offering someone or state to leave their home and their country if they don't like it here is something I strongly disagree with.
On the bigger sense, I do think maybe we're just talking over each other.
For instance, I don't understand at all why you'd write "Maybe you'll alienate the people in the alcoholism thread i statted and you joined, maybe not"
I think that's a great thread and said so. Writing "Just seeing this. Thanks for starting and I love we can talk about it here."
I thought
@Mr. Ham and the other folks branching off with more accountability was great. I certainly have no desire or reason to alienate anyone in that thread and honestly, it seems odd to even suggest. But we must be talking about different things or something.
So bottom line for me is I strongly disagreed with your opening position. And I said so. With zero intent on embarrassing or disrespecting anyone.
oooooof.
