Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac...
by bananalychee on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @10:19AM
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Tangential comment, but I now see people adding disclaimers reiterating their political affiliation to their posts regularly and I want to say that you shouldn't have to justify bilateral criticism. It doesn't imply equal magnitude, and it's only taken that way by bullies in dogmatic bubbles.
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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac...
by justin66 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:04AM
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I don't mind getting some extra clarity on where someone is coming from.
Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac...
by Arkhadia on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @10:39AM
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Your rationality here will surely be flagged. Over apologizing is the new norm to avoid being canceled for dissenting opinions.
Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac...
by HelloMcFly on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:50AM
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The commenter is right that you shouldn't have to state those kinds of beliefs, but pragmatically this is a message board that invites all sorts of responses. Those additional notes are an attempt to head-off annoying and wrongly-based counter-responses built on assumptions that shouldn't have been made. But just because they shouldn't be doesn't mean they won't be.
Your comment evoking a victim complex on the other hand I find a far more annoying element of online discourse.
Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac...
by hn_throwaway_99 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @05:40PM
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Thank you, because this is exactly why I did it, and will continue to.
So often when I write a comment I find responses either missing the point, laser focusing on something offhand/tangential I wrote, or imbuing my post with a viewpoint I didn't make. Sometimes the fault is mine, sometimes the fault of the responder.
I state where I'm coming from not as some sort of "tribal identifier", but simply to add clarity, and to stave off misdirected responses that I can find annoying.