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What does charitable mean in this context and why can't I simply ask what they meant if I'm not sure.
Sometimes people just say things that don't make sense. Example If it wasn't for my horses I wouldn't have gotten through college. Idk of the charitable interpretation is that they rode a horse through college campus or if horse motivated them to attend all their classes and get a degree
i don't know, why didn't you?
Lol dodged my question.
I'm pelting swine with pearls
i answered your question before you even asked it. the charitable read would be to not assume people want you dead because of a hypothetical scenario. you could absolutely have asked for clarification if you felt unsafe but you didn't. why?
and by the way, the opposite was also true: someone asked you what one of your posts meant because you used a nonexistent word, and you dismissed them.
I never said they wanted me dead. Try again