Yak: So Rob tells us "Ya gotta talk in a few things in consideration of every post. Not everyone is you. At any given moment some will be happy, sad, ill, angry, hungry, drunk, stoned or simultaneously watching Sponge Bob."
Is Rob insinuating that some posters may be drunk or stoned? No he's stating it as a explicit possibility for everyone to consider, along with the other possibilities, given he lives in reality and has to deal with things as they are. Asking if this list of options applies to a poster isn't insinuating anything, it's asking, hey what's up with the too wild and crazy guise of your post? Like I said, Freud would have a field day with the fact that you take it so personally, along with most everything else it seems.
Of course people can agree to disagree, but as you've stated yourself, "you’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts."
To answer the question as to if I am "happy, sad, ill, angry, hungry, drunk, stoned or simultaneously watching Sponge Bob," outside of being happy, I am none of those. Nor does it, or should it, become an automatic assumption every time someone posts something that you don't agree with. And I think you hanging your hat on what Rob once said as your justification to ask that of someone you may disagree with, is quite frankly, quite an insult to Rob.
Stating that I am supporting an oligarch pedophile by buying Starlink is YOUR opinion. It is not based upon a fact. Even if Elon Musk is an oligarch pedophile, just as my assertion that the American taxpayer must then be equally supporting an oligarch pedophile for sending 4 people to circle the moon is. And saying that the American taxpayer is doing so unwillingly, whereas I am willingly, is just an excuse used to justify your opinion.
As for stating that "what's up with the too wild and crazy guise of your post?" well, that is YOUR opinion, it is not a fact.
As for claiming "Freud would have a field day with the fact that you take it so personally, along with most everything else it seems", one can ask what is your qualification to know what Freud would say or do? Are you a degreed psychologist? If you are, then that changes the discussion, if you're not, well then, you just stated an opinion, not a fact.
Also, with respects for taking things too personally, well, that too is your opinion. When the discussion turns into a rebuttal of, or even asking if, or even remotely insinuating if one is drunk, stoned or the whole litany of name calling or personal attacks/insults, or racial/gender denigrating starts because one does not agree with another's opinions, well, I don't just sit back and have a nice big "belly laugh."
As for me saying, "you’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts," I believe in that 100%. Stating opinions as fact is what I have an issue with, which, is exactly what you are doing.
ETA: In as much as I can agree that Musk is the worst thing ever, but what about the 150,000 employees of all of the Musk's companies? What ways can one protest and hurt Musk as an individual, but I don't see the upside in hurting the employee just going to work every day and feeding their family as wise or beneficial to the common good, nor does it hurt Musk in any real material way.
Is Rob insinuating that some posters may be drunk or stoned? No he's stating it as a explicit possibility for everyone to consider, along with the other possibilities, given he lives in reality and has to deal with things as they are. Asking if this list of options applies to a poster isn't insinuating anything, it's asking, hey what's up with the too wild and crazy guise of your post? Like I said, Freud would have a field day with the fact that you take it so personally, along with most everything else it seems.
Of course people can agree to disagree, but as you've stated yourself, "you’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts."
To answer the question as to if I am "happy, sad, ill, angry, hungry, drunk, stoned or simultaneously watching Sponge Bob," outside of being happy, I am none of those. Nor does it, or should it, become an automatic assumption every time someone posts something that you don't agree with. And I think you hanging your hat on what Rob once said as your justification to ask that of someone you may disagree with, is quite frankly, quite an insult to Rob.
Stating that I am supporting an oligarch pedophile by buying Starlink is YOUR opinion. It is not based upon a fact. Even if Elon Musk is an oligarch pedophile, just as my assertion that the American taxpayer must then be equally supporting an oligarch pedophile for sending 4 people to circle the moon is. And saying that the American taxpayer is doing so unwillingly, whereas I am willingly, is just an excuse used to justify your opinion.
As for stating that "what's up with the too wild and crazy guise of your post?" well, that is YOUR opinion, it is not a fact.
As for claiming "Freud would have a field day with the fact that you take it so personally, along with most everything else it seems", one can ask what is your qualification to know what Freud would say or do? Are you a degreed psychologist? If you are, then that changes the discussion, if you're not, well then, you just stated an opinion, not a fact.
Also, with respects for taking things too personally, well, that too is your opinion. When the discussion turns into a rebuttal of, or even asking if, or even remotely insinuating if one is drunk, stoned or the whole litany of name calling or personal attacks/insults, or racial/gender denigrating starts because one does not agree with another's opinions, well, I don't just sit back and have a nice big "belly laugh."
As for me saying, "you’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts," I believe in that 100%. Stating opinions as fact is what I have an issue with, which, is exactly what you are doing.
ETA: In as much as I can agree that Musk is the worst thing ever, but what about the 150,000 employees of all of the Musk's companies? What ways can one protest and hurt Musk as an individual, but I don't see the upside in hurting the employee just going to work every day and feeding their family as wise or beneficial to the common good, nor does it hurt Musk in any real material way.