Yeah definitely, just saying I'm not sure polite is the right label for a response with that kind of subtext.
Is that polite though? I get that it isn't explicitly rude but I pretty much only use that phrase as short hand for "why are you talking about this you fucking weirdo?" I think it's subtly rude at best.
I've known this guy for a long time. He's grown up in rural America so he has all the same reasons for supporting Trump as those people typically do with the added oddity of being more impacted by the negative outcomes of those policies. Guns, immigration, general economic stuff. At least those are the reasons they'll state publicly.
It seems more like an in-group thing than anything else to me. I would have expected some sort of expression of disagreement with Trump on this particular issue but he says he thinks Democrats will do the same thing despite all evidence to the contrary. That is how he's chosen to rationalize the situation.
I know a Ukrainan born US citizen with a significant amount of family still living in Ukraine who is also a Trump supporter. He hates Russia and wants Ukraine to maintain independence. I asked him a couple of weeks ago what he thought would happen to Ukraine if Trump was reelected and he said Ukraine would probably be left to fend for themselves. This statement did not come with remorse or condemnation, it was delivered in the same way you would describe the winner of a sporting event. A simple statement of fact.
I don't know how to respond to that kind of thinking. If the understanding that your vote might lead to the death of your family members doesn't break through the political polarization in this country and make you reconsider then I don't think anything will.
$600 million / 55,000 claims = ~$10,000
Not a great deal imo but not exactly $3 either
I'm completely confident that people 150 years from now will say very similar things about us and our contemporaries. Maybe that knowledge will help you chill the fuck out, even just a bit.
He is a serial rapist so that is about as on-brand as it gets.
I think I'm fine with the phrasing as is
That's a retarded description of the fall of Rome.
I'm not saying it's not possible that the Sims franchise has gotten worse. I'm just saying that lots of people would have described every Sims game in the same terms OP did. I'm also saying that your tastes and preferences can change over time. It's possible, but certainly not the only option, that these two things are more true than it is that Sims is getting worse.
There's nothing fun about the game, and you see people streaming it, it's just building. That's all they are ever doing. Just building crap.
To be fair, that's always been a reasonable description of games like Sims, Minecraft, and most other simulation style games, depending on personal preference. Maybe the fact that you're choosing to use it now means you aren't as interested in that style of game, or even video games in general, as you used to be. Maybe not, but I think it's worth considering at least.
You're assuming they give a shit what you think about their actions. I don't think that's true at all. We've been in the "what are you going to do about it" phase of authoritarianism for a while now.