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Originally Posted by Andy83
The first part is pretty much exactly what I'm saying.
Conversations/disagreements evolve. What can possibly start productive, even if just in intent, can always devolve into something else. As I have stated, I believe this is the case. We started with something that could have been somewhat productive, though mutually hostile (and neither of us clearly object), and due to a difference of opinion, and as far as I'm concerned, a fundamental lack of understanding, became something i view as no longer worth the effort.
My unwillingness to continue rehashing the same talking points over and over with you in particular, is not due to a lack of conviction in my views, a lack of understanding of the subject matter in which we were debating, or fearing being preceived as taking a "w" or "l". It’s because I've seen enough of the conversation to know any further expansion is likely to devolve as described as above and have no tangible purpose.
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And yet you continue to put significant effort into crafting a narrative (which is observably false) around all the reasons why you shouldn’t answer questions on the topic, so much so that you’ve surpassed the amount of effort those questions ten times over.
I’m not really sure what tangible purpose that serves, if that’s you’re concern, so if you wouldn’t mind, I’d be happy to have you redirect any further effort over convincing people why you definitely could answer simple questions because you totally have those answers but definitely won’t because (insert reason) and just put that in to the answering the questions:
- How will tariffs (excluding O&G) “strengthen the relationship?”
- How is our pension and the RCMP harming Alberta.
- How is the federal government giving money to municipalities in Alberta harmful to Alberta.
- In a negotiation, how is one person who is not authorized to make any sort of terms going against the wishes of the people responsible for that negotiation and advocating for themselves not “undermining” the position?
You can start with just one and we can go from there. But I really don’t feel like reading another sentence about how you’re not engaging without you picking up on the irony of it. I’m literally just here to here your thoughts on the subject, couldn’t care less about your thoughts on why you shouldn’t have to give your thoughts on it.