• Donald J. Musk@lemmy.todayOP
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    20 hours ago

    So were you or were you not making fun of people on social security? Who, by the way, aren’t all old. Clarify.

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      19 hours ago

      Good grief, I was not making fun of them. I feel like there’s either some trolling or some sort of a reading comprehension deficit going on here. And judging by the comment scores, I’m not alone in that suspicion.

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        19 hours ago

        Good grief, I was not making fun of them

        Ok, then clarify.

        And tho you may really like to watch upvotes/downvotes, I don’t care about them. So you were being “sarcastic” when talking about the people who are on social security, yet in the same comment you weren’t being sarcastic when talking about current workers.

        Is that what you are trying to get me to believe?

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          6 hours ago

          In case you’re not trolling, I would like to point something out to you:

          The up-/downvote ratio here probably reflects the fact that onlookers don’t believe you are arguing in good faith. It should act as a wake-up call to you, an indicator that you should re-consider what the other person is saying and ask yourself “Am I misunderstanding their point? Could this be interpreted differently?”.

          You may find that you are disagreeing with them over something they never said or intended to say.

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            2 hours ago

            probably reflects the fact that onlookers don’t believe you are arguing in good faith.

            That doesn’t concern me. Just because Lemmy doesn’t believe something I say, doesn’t make it false.

            i t should act as a wake-up call to you

            Why don’t you tell me what I have said that seems to be not in good faith that I should wake up to.

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              Ok, I’ll put it clearly: You’re wrongly interpreting the person you’re arguing with as saying something you disagree with. They never meant what you’re claiming they meant, and they’ve said as much.

              When you keep trying to nail them to the wall, it comes off as being disingenuous, and just looking for a fight, even though you don’t really disagree with the OP on anything related to what they’ve posted in this thread.

              You’re being downvoted because everyone else can see this, and think you’re trolling because you don’t seem to see it, even though it’s obvious to everyone else. In fact, it’s so obvious that people probably think it’s more likely that you’re trolling than that you genuinely don’t understand that you have no disagreement with the OP here.