[smcl]

I guess it's voted up because people found the comment interesting. It could have just been "I found a route following a given rule and wrote a blog on it, here's a link if you're interested" but your comment seems determined to turn it into a politics argument.

Meanwhile there is a more interesting subthread exploring an interesting historical and geological reason behind why some of the counties in question leaned Democratic you don’t seem too interested in. Strange…

[trabant00]

"Avoid Republican-voting counties" was completely apolitical before I came in. This is an actual argument you thought makes sense. Ok...

[smcl]

The topic involves a political party, so no it's never going to be "completely apolitical". But that's not what I said - I said that you're the one who seemed keen to kick off an argument about politics. Also you complained about being miserable, if you don't seek out conflict you won't be so miserable.

[trabant00]

I am an european who clicked on some topic about maps routing only to be greeted by the freaking US politics again. Specifically the side that makes everything political, argues that everything is and should be political, but then pretends that the political shit that comes out their keyboard is somehow not political until I point it out.

And I said by doing this you make online discussions miserable, not that I myself am miserable. If you aim to derail the argument with personal attacks in the form of keyboard psychoanalysis - reading comprehension is very much required.

[mulletbum]

"Specifically the side that makes everything political, argues that everything is and should be political, but then pretends that the political shit that comes out their keyboard is somehow not political until I point it out."

You might have gotten too much internet sun this week, throw some ointment on it and stay in the shade. You are the only person going political in this thread.

[smcl]

If seeing a pretty innocuous comment triggers this kind of response, then you might need to take a breather from the comments. Or click the `[-]` button to hide the reply if you don't want to. But engaging like this is about as productive as having an argument with a brick wall, it's not doing you any good.

[trabant00]

I appreciate everybody's totally genuine concern about my mental health. May I suggest though that you do you and I do me? Take your own advice and follow it. I will continue to post what I think when I think. Over and out.

[smcl]

The whole point of this thread was that you wanted to change our behaviour to suit you. We were already following "you do you" and you didn't like it :-/

[HelloMcFly]

The comment that set you off did not comment on political ideologies, political actions, or political stories of the day. There's nothing in there about rightness, wrongness, justice, etc. No candidates were discussed, nobody was attacked, no divisiveness instigated. The commenter merely shared a project with obvious similarities to the posted subject derived from political voting patterns. The route is likely aligned to their values, but even that is an inference!

When everyone around you seemingly makes everything political, maybe it's sometimes the observer and not the observed?

> I appreciate everybody's totally genuine concern about my mental health.

It's probably more genuine than you think, however hard that is to believe.

[samstave]

For over a decade I ran a very famous /r/ with ~2,000,000 subscribers...

I made it a point to have the sub remain Apolitical - total disaster to the point where the corrupt reddit admins got involved and kicked me out of the sub (admins have tons of alt accounts they use to get mod status in /r/'s)

Its very hard to be apolitical at all these days because the constant barrage of damage control and distractions used to shield US lawmakers from corruption scrutiny. And it affects our lives on a daily basis.

Look at the news cycle today. Literally today ; talking about 'running out of money and raising the debt ceiling' - but zero acknowledgement of the ~250 BILLION dollars we have thus far sent to Ukraine for another proxy war. Fuck that.

We have fucking zombies slurping off the government tit (feinstein) and a crap ton of geriatric long time sitters with dementia and corrupt insider activities

https://i.imgur.com/fRlfeB2.png

https://i.imgur.com/aNoLw7X.png

https://i.imgur.com/JRxXvsF.png

https://i.imgur.com/88zALUY.png

[chrysler]

>> Literally today ; talking about 'running out of money and raising the debt ceiling' - but zero acknowledgement of the ~250 BILLION dollars we have thus far sent to Ukraine

A lot of that money exists only on paper. Take a warehouse full of air defense missiles manufactured in 2000, with a cost of $3m per missile and a shelf life of 25 years. If you give 200 of them to Ukraine to defend its citizens from Russian terror attacks, then on paper that costs $600m. If you use "replacement value" as cost and new missiles cost $6m (because they're better), you can inflate their value to $1.2bn. If you do nothing and let them expire, they'll be worthless in 2 years and you'll just write that $600m or $1.2bn off. In either case, accounting reports lots of money spent, but no real money actually changes hands. That money was already spent decades ago and you aren't saving anything by withholding missiles. By giving air defense missiles to Ukraine instead of letting them sit in a warehouse until they become obsolete, you at least do something useful with them.

[samstave]

I need you to be hit with a $50,000,000 bunker bomb. Your logic is ready to bomb itself

[refulgentis]

May I humbly suggest coming back to the thread in a couple hours or tomorrow? There’s gotta be a language barrier thing here, you’re being extremely argumentative at length about a noun being used.

This last comment extends, at an uncomfortable level, the politics argument and name calling you started and you’re accusing others of, for no discernible reason.