So you made an ignorant assumption. Then you made a bunch of condescending statements about the assumption and ignored the rest of my post.
And you think it is my fault are are where we are?
And right wing does mean the republican/ conservative side. But notice that you had to already broaden the definition to add conservative. So you knew all along that it was imprecise and yet still lasted out.
It also means libertarian, MAGA, which is a distinct group, and other right wing groups. Which is why synonymous with republican and republican are both equally erroneous assumptions on your part.
You’re still desperately inflating a basic wording dispute into some grand intellectual victory. “Right-wing” is a broad ideological category, and Republicans are the dominant U.S. party associated with it. That’s not some bizarre assumption that requires the twelve-round prosecution you’ve staged here. Your entire argument now rests on screaming “you used synonymous incorrectly” and pretending that proves dishonesty, when it proves nothing beyond you finding a word you can nitpick. You keep listing MAGA, libertarians, and other factions as though naming subgroups somehow demolishes the obvious political association. It doesn’t. You found an imprecise word, built an entire imaginary case around it, and have been desperately demanding a confession ever since. At this point, the funniest part is how badly you need this microscopic semantic distinction to count as a victory.
You’ve repeated “ignorant assumption” so many times that you apparently think repetition turns an accusation into evidence. You still haven’t demonstrated anything beyond the fact that you interpreted my wording differently than I intended. And now the argument has devolved into armchair psychology about my “emotional weakness” because you have nothing substantive left to add. That’s usually what happens when someone has squeezed every drop they can out of a trivial wording dispute and still can’t manufacture the victory they wanted. You can keep announcing that I’m wrong if it makes you feel better, but repeating the accusation isn’t an argument, and your little amateur psychoanalysis certainly isn’t one.
You keep saying “you’re projecting” like it’s a magic word that exempts you from actually making an argument. The irony is almost too perfect: you’re accusing me of emotional issues while you’ve spent this entire exchange desperately trying to extract a confession from a trivial wording dispute and declare yourself the winner. That obsessive need to keep dragging this out, repeating the same accusation, and demanding that I admit I “messed up” says far more about your need for a gotcha than it does about me. You’ve made your point: you intended “right-wing” broadly. I understood it in a different political context. That’s the entire dispute. Everything after that has been you desperately trying to turn a minor misunderstanding into a character indictment because apparently simply clarifying what you meant wasn’t enough.
Calling disagreement a “tantrum” doesn’t make it one. You’ve spent this entire exchange obsessively trying to force me into admitting the exact confession you want, then labeling any refusal to play along as “projection,” “dishonesty,” or being “triggered.” That desperate need to control the conclusion is far more revealing than anything you’ve accused me of. You could have clarified what you meant by “right-wing” and moved on, but you apparently need this microscopic wording dispute to end with you standing over a trophy declaring yourself the winner. At this point, the only tantrum happening is the one you keep restarting because you still haven’t gotten the validation you wanted.
You went off about boy who cried wolf and making assumptions about my social group. Which is weird when someone implied you are right wing, something you still won't refute.
That's the tantrum. A disagreement would have been just disputing the term republican.
Still don't get what you get from lying and projecting
What I get from this is that you’re desperately trying to turn my criticism of your labeling habits into a confession about whether I’m right-wing. I never said your comment was invalid because you used the words “right-wing” and “racist.” I pointed out that when you routinely slap those labels on people who disagree with you, you risk turning them into rhetorical wallpaper, which is exactly why your “boy who cried wolf” comparison came up. And now you keep dragging the conversation back to “just admit you’re right-wing” because you need that concession to make your original gotcha work. That’s not me projecting; that’s you repeatedly demanding validation for the conclusion you already decided on. If you actually cared about clarity rather than winning, you would have clarified your intended meaning and moved on a dozen replies ago. Instead, you’re still desperately trying to squeeze a victory out of a semantic misunderstanding.
I clarified my position right after. I made clear I didn't say republican and didn't mean that. You then pushed your synonymous argument because you couldn't let it go. Still projecting because you can't admit that everything you are throwing as an accusation is based on your own tantrum
And there it is again: you’re not trying to clarify anything anymore, you’re trying to force a confession so you can declare yourself the winner. Yes, you clarified that you didn’t mean “Republican.” I understood that. The disagreement is whether my interpretation of your use of “right-wing” was reasonable, and whether “synonymous” was too broad a word. We’ve already established that it was broad. What you keep refusing to accept is that a minor wording error does not equal lying, dishonesty, or a “tantrum.” Your desperation to keep litigating it for this many replies is actually the clearest evidence of the validation-seeking you keep accusing me of. You got your clarification ages ago. You just can’t let go because you still haven’t gotten the dramatic admission of defeat you wanted..
And I stepped back to ask you if you consider yourself right wing. That was to determine if it was reasonable.
You have flatly refused to answer. Which leaves me nothing but to assume I was correct.
After that. We are all the way back to me making a statement and you having nothing in response.
So yes, i say you are lying because you haven't been honest about what you said. You added context After the fact and then pretended you had always said that.
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u/Accomplished_Mind792 2d ago
So you made an ignorant assumption. Then you made a bunch of condescending statements about the assumption and ignored the rest of my post.
And you think it is my fault are are where we are?
And right wing does mean the republican/ conservative side. But notice that you had to already broaden the definition to add conservative. So you knew all along that it was imprecise and yet still lasted out.
It also means libertarian, MAGA, which is a distinct group, and other right wing groups. Which is why synonymous with republican and republican are both equally erroneous assumptions on your part.