As someone who’s been watching this, I appreciate your willingness to grow.
TBH, it does come across a bit as gaslighting on your part:
Making reference to Christmas & Turkey’s, and making authoritative statements that “no, it’s not happening“ doesn’t seem to me like the approach of someone who is genuinely open and curious to learn.
The so-called posturing is probably defensiveness on the part of a person whose views are being actively invalidated and shot down.
Please reread your original comment and take some time to reflect
(I say this as someone w/ a long history of putting foot in mouth, and will probably continue doing so inadvertently…)
Why did you put “no its not happening” in quotes as though I said that when I said no such thing?
My first comment was made without the benefit of knowing anything at all about the idea that the election was stolen. I am far from unique in that opinion as it seems even some US citizens were unaware of it. Simply posting assertions which, on the face of it, seem improbable, without any kind of source to provide context to those claims isn’t going to inspire trust. If those links had been posted immediately I and others could’ve read them and had a more informed response.
From the moment I was told about this, my response changed to asking for more information - I said that I was clearly ignorant on the subject and asked to be educated on it.
There is a world of difference between someones views being shot down and someone being totally unaware and asking for sources to learn more.
Its a sad truth that there are a substantial amount of US citizens who seem to think that the entire world must know every intricate detail of the US political and legal system because America is the centre of the world. And then, when the rest of us admit we actually don’t, accusations of gaslighting and invalidation. No ones being gaslit or invalidated - we’re just not exposed or familiar with the same level of detail as you because we don’t live there. If you’re going to make a post essentially asking for the outside world to intervene, a good pace to start is by putting all the information there from the start, not going into a massive sulk because we’re not aware of the details.
As someone who’s been watching this, I appreciate your willingness to grow.
TBH, it does come across a bit as gaslighting on your part: Making reference to Christmas & Turkey’s, and making authoritative statements that “no, it’s not happening“ doesn’t seem to me like the approach of someone who is genuinely open and curious to learn.
The so-called posturing is probably defensiveness on the part of a person whose views are being actively invalidated and shot down.
Please reread your original comment and take some time to reflect (I say this as someone w/ a long history of putting foot in mouth, and will probably continue doing so inadvertently…)
Why did you put “no its not happening” in quotes as though I said that when I said no such thing?
My first comment was made without the benefit of knowing anything at all about the idea that the election was stolen. I am far from unique in that opinion as it seems even some US citizens were unaware of it. Simply posting assertions which, on the face of it, seem improbable, without any kind of source to provide context to those claims isn’t going to inspire trust. If those links had been posted immediately I and others could’ve read them and had a more informed response.
From the moment I was told about this, my response changed to asking for more information - I said that I was clearly ignorant on the subject and asked to be educated on it.
There is a world of difference between someones views being shot down and someone being totally unaware and asking for sources to learn more.
Its a sad truth that there are a substantial amount of US citizens who seem to think that the entire world must know every intricate detail of the US political and legal system because America is the centre of the world. And then, when the rest of us admit we actually don’t, accusations of gaslighting and invalidation. No ones being gaslit or invalidated - we’re just not exposed or familiar with the same level of detail as you because we don’t live there. If you’re going to make a post essentially asking for the outside world to intervene, a good pace to start is by putting all the information there from the start, not going into a massive sulk because we’re not aware of the details.