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by Finch2192 3155 days ago
Can't we do a little better? If this is 'So important' - why is it relegated to one small blog and why is it entirely up to us to mail this letter? Truthfully, I don't know what this 'high stakes' fight should resemble, but I hope it does not consist solely of a bunch of people mailing letters.
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If you don't think it's important, and the fact that you put 'so important' and 'high stakes' in quotes implies that you very much don't think it's important, then you'll make much more of an impact if you instead post about why you don't think it's important. Otherwise you're just indirectly insinuating things without evidence, a la the "hey I'm just asking the questions" people on AM talk radio, /r/conspiracy, etc. Asking questions is great, but most people's interpretation of what you wrote is that you're not asking a question, but rather making a statement in the form of a question so that you're not obligated to present a counterargument to support what you're strongly implying.

Alternately that's not what you were trying to communicate, and instead you're just innocently misusing quotation marks, in which case sorry for misunderstanding your point. Anyway that's probably why you're getting downvotes from some people. Little details like the quotes can completely change the interpretation of what you're communicating.

So what are you suggesting instead?