> You were dismissive and insulting, saying that I and the vast majority of others have no principles.
I didn't say you have no principles, I said you didn't have a principled defense of the Constitution (or something like that).
So, does you just assume everyone who disagrees with you on politics is automatically insulting? People constantly argue about Constitutional issues and that's perfectly acceptable political talk. If you find that insulting, you're going to have a problem.
> you demonstrated what I was claiming right in the message I was replying to.
I'm honestly completely baffled. I don't know what you're talking about, and I don't know why you think I was "dismissive."
No, I don't just assume everyone who disagrees with me on politics is automatically insulting. I assume that people who insult me are automatically insulting.
I realize you don't know what I'm talking about. You're so out of touch that you can't even see how brash and irritating you're being here.
Don't accuse me of ignoring the Constitution sometimes and leaning on it other times when you don't even know what my positions are. Especially don't accuse me of that, then say you don't feel like defending the position. Don't accuse me of having "no fundamental ideas to point to" when you don't even know what my positions are.
If you don't understand what's wrong with stating "Liberals and conservatives do not support individual freedom, so they have no fundamental ideas to point to", then you're a lost cause. You don't understand others, you don't want to, and because of that, you're going to have zero success in arguing for your ideas.
Do you actually want to convince other people of the merits of your views? If so, you need to change your tactics, big-time. If not, well, the internet has plenty of room for argumentative jerks.
I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. I was just chatting.
You chose to take my position on liberals and conservatives, which disagrees with yours, very, very personally, rather than just saying, "He disagrees with me on politics," which would have been a more appropriate response.
And you've said all kinds of things that clearly are abusive to me... I'm brash, I'm irritating, I'm unable to have a conversation with others...
If you took my disagreement with you over politics as personally insulting, how do you think I'm supposed to take your actual personal insults?
> Don't accuse me of ignoring the Constitution sometimes and leaning on it other times when you don't even know what my positions are.
I am accusing liberals and conservatives of that. So what? That is not personally insulting, rude, or anything else. No reason to get upset.
I didn't say you have no principles, I said you didn't have a principled defense of the Constitution (or something like that).
So, does you just assume everyone who disagrees with you on politics is automatically insulting? People constantly argue about Constitutional issues and that's perfectly acceptable political talk. If you find that insulting, you're going to have a problem.
> you demonstrated what I was claiming right in the message I was replying to.
I'm honestly completely baffled. I don't know what you're talking about, and I don't know why you think I was "dismissive."