I love assigning self-crit like homework, it's just abusing "leftist" parlance to say "I'm correct and you should be ashamed of yourself." "Honestly," fuck off with that.

You keep assigning arbitrary goalposts. No, you cannot infer from the original comment that substance abuse was profoundly destructive on his life*, I never said that and that was never my argument. When someone tells you they have had trouble with substance abuse and you don't know how bad it was you shouldn't respond under the assumption that it was borderline trivial and has no emotional valence. That's what I'm saying.

*Not that it was, I'm just giving an example of an extreme characterization.

[–] TheOtherwise@hexbear.net 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I love assigning self-crit like homework, it's just abusing "leftist" parlance to say "I'm correct and you should be ashamed of yourself." "Honestly," fuck off with that

You've objectively been unable to have a calm discussion about this.

When someone tells you they have had trouble with substance abuse and you don't know how bad it was you shouldn't respond under the assumption that it was borderline trivial and has no emotional valence. That's what I'm saying.

And what I am saying is that to expect this on Hexbear is misguided UNLESS one clarifies their seriousness.

Do people come here for seriousness? Sure. Do people come here to throw around emojis? Yes.

Both are forms of community. Someone got them mixed up in an ubderstandable way. Big whoop.

Edit:

you keep assigning arbitrary goalposts

Just because you jumped at me from the get go and failed to comprehend my very consistent point...that doesn't mean goalposts have been changed... wowee

It's like you're usage of quotes around "honestly" just now

you assumed i was using quotes in a similar deragatory way earlier around "abused". I had to clarify for you because you chose to jump on me without seeking to understand.