HighPeakFox

There you go - I just did not say that.

Here's why. Because you infer meaning from stuff I just haven't said, and you're very provocative and also excellent at avoiding the point I frequently make to you. It's telling I am afraid, and you're not the first person in my life (or indeed on this forum) with the ability to just do massive mental gymnastics or avoid salient points in conversation.

I don't think he is a politician, in any traditional understanding of the word. He is an over-inflated, sociopathic, vengeful, manipulative bully, and sadly too many people get their rocks off on it.

Forgive me, but I will pass. You just have to look at how people respond to you to tell you you might be doing something wrong.

I'm not here to discuss that - we can moan all we like about it. It's a known known that persistent diversionary entries will cause issues.

I suspect it's because you were persistently ignoring what was said to you, fairly obnoxiously too.

I could suggest something sinister, with my tinfoil hat cocked at a jaunty angle...

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/04/donald-trump-us-presidential-electionon-2024-analysis/

I suspect that what's left of their democracy will now be dismantled, or at the very least rigged to the point of impossibility.

I have no words.

I am not sure any of us in a position to explain what others might think - and I think one must take care not to take offence on that basis either.

It's a joke, fella. It's not intended to belittle or be exhaustively explanatory.

Is an online backlash actually a backlash?

I definitely have an idea

I'm not interested in falling out with you over this. You are absolutely entitled to your opinion.

Or........she didn't say it and this is actually the case. You know, just maybe.

"...the US election polls have been gamed by hundreds of partisan ‘red wave’ polls which, along with the betting markets, have tried to shift the whole perception of the election in the US. It’s a classic information operation." Not my words, but highly revealing.

You're entitled to your opinion, but you're not entitled to tell us what we all know. Because I can tell you for a fact, you only know what you think you know.

I think I know which one it is.

To lighten the mood slightly (and I hope nobody finds this to be inappropriate), the deadpan comedian Steve Wright has a great line on this subject. "Depression is merely anger without the enthusiasm'.

Unless I did something remedial, the timestamp appeared not to be there as promised. I blame @StriderHiryu.

Really?

It's nothing new - for me, it's as mind boggling as the people who used to smash up glass bus shelters, I could never see the gain. I guess people externalise their own unhappiness in different ways.

I wish to be kind, as an ability to shift belief position is unusual, in a good way. I would say you seem to have quite black or white views & I hope you remain open to the possibility that your current positions might not all be absolutely right - in fact, one of my great weaknesses has been absolutism, so for well-meant humane reasons, I hope you can find the light and shade to go with your firm beliefs. We are often polarised into 'so you vote x, therefore you believe y', and that is clearly preposterous. Some of my best friends vote differently to me and have different belief systems - so this is a message sent in peace.