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Re:US Border Patrol says they can create central repository ... by mlthoughts2018 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @01:22PM (#24253490)
What part of my response was cynical?
Re:US Border Patrol says they can create central repository ... by techbio on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:36PM (#24255084)
For the uncertain:

cyn·i·cal

/ˈsinək(ə)l/

1. believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.

"her cynical attitude"

2.concerned only with one's own interests and typically disregarding accepted or appropriate standards in order to achieve them.

"a cynical manipulation of public opinion"

Re:US Border Patrol says they can create central repository ... by mlthoughts2018 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @06:26PM (#24255826)
I’m still not understanding. How is my comment distrustful? It’s just a factual description of a decision making and PR process.

The tone I imagine when I say something like “legislators only consider the desires of plutocrats” is like saying “plants survive by photosynthesis” or “the Efficient Markets hypothesis is only useful as an occasional approximation” or something - neutral observations of factual descriptions of how systems work.

“Cynical” implies a normative judgment, or some extended assumption as if my comment has anything to do with presumed self-interest or distrust of sincerity.

Re:US Border Patrol says they can create central repository ... by techbio on Sunday August 23, 2020 @09:44PM (#24256868)
Cynical doesn't mean "wrong".

While I'm playing the reference material card:

Cynical

Antonyms of CYNICAL

positivist, cheerful, trusting, optimistic, positivistic, sentimental, impractical, undoubting, idealistic, naive, believing, hopeful, positive, trustful, rose-colored, romantic.

The worldview you describe isn't any of those.