(12-23-2024, 01:00 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(12-23-2024, 12:53 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Then start a conversation about the subject. Start a thread specific to the topic and say want you want to discuss. All you do is assume things/state things as fact that you don't actually know about and steer things in a direction not always congruent to the conversation and it makes you sound disingenuous. Just state what you want to discuss and if people want to talk about it they will.

I appreciate the feedback, but this is the politics forum.  Government actions are the main thing we talk about.  If we are talking about the economy in general we are almost always trying to make a point about "is the government doing a good job?"  Similarly, if we talk about poverty, usually we are trying to make a point "is government assistance working?"

The way I see it, you take conversations about government, and try to steer them into conversations about your personal experiences which I don't share. So you steer things too. I don't mind, I just feel like you've got a double standard.