Papa
Thank you for the @mention so that I was aware of this exchange.
He lied throughout the thread to have answered her question while at the same time calling the question bait. This behaviour, in a topic that is emotionally particularly charged for the user in question, is bullying behaviour from my perspective. The context is relevant and while it would just be a case of a shitposter in other threads, in a thread where the person in question feels threatened by political developments, such posting behaviour serves no other purpose than self-aggrandisement and riling up a vulnerable poster.
Actually, if you check my
original comment, I made a statement.
The other commenter ignored it entirely, using it as a launch-pad to steam-roll over the view I expressed and to aggressively coerce me to follow their derail of my own views.
And then they repeatedly attempted to shoehorn me into a baited and disengenuous question.
I responded to the question. I did not take the bait.
Not taking the bait bothered certain onlookers and they proceeded to misrepresent me over the course of the following pages of that topic.
This included attempting to hold me accountable for some aggressive, rude, insulting conduct by others - conduct by others that was directed at me.
I am not responsible for the voluntary actions of others.
I actually made a point of
not mentioning the fact they my original view and comment had been utterly trampled over.
If you go back to the thread you'll see how I continually told you to read what I said. That was me being diplomatic.
I have remained completely civil throughout.
I simply refused to be pressured and coerced into compromising my position. This bothers some people, it seems.
I'm dismayed that, this far after these events, after I've explained my position so abundantly and so clearly - and so evidently that others are compelled to comment on it to you - that it is still apparent that what I write is/was not read.
I've said everything I need to say on this episiode here and in the thread. There is no ambiguity on my part. All questions have been answered.
I ended the exchange in the topic in question. I have no intention of starting a new futile cycle of writing and not being read in this thread too.
I'll thank you not to misrepresent me.
EDIT: I am purposefully not linking to specific things.
If the modest effort of
reading in order to understand is too great, or too offputting to cope with then - on, a discussion forum, of all places - then it's apparent to me this is a monologue, not a discussion.