Psy-Fi yes, but Sci-Fi, no. Pls don’t turn Sci-Fi into a term for all fantasy fiction…

Companies rarely ever reduce prices unless the product directly involves raw materials from global markets, like oil and gas. This is an excuse to blame Trump for greed. So long as profit it being made, you could be reducing prices.

Accusing? That’s a pretty negative interpretation. It’s just a reasonable hypothesis from what Velma explained of her life, which seems to relate directly to how my words were mis-interpreted through the lens of that preexisting bias. She did not deny it or even comment about it. So maybe yes and maybe no.

If there wasn’t so much hostility right from the start, hostility bourn possibly from that bias, I would have been more open to clarifying dialogue and continued. Velma, and you, don’t feel like safe people to do that with. You just add more hostility, that doesn’t signal that you’re here for clarity or understanding so I’m not going to feed that hostility.

I don’t think that.

Unlikely but maybe.

Your comment strongly suggests to me a possible pre-existing negative framing of what I’ve said, and I’m not interested in opening myself up to further verbal abuse from you. I’m happy to engage with substantive disagreement, but your comment leaves with little confidence you are willing to do that here. I’m not going to continue a conversation that starts with personal insults and character judgements.

Well you have a pretty strong incentive to see people as rape apologists, then. Hurt people hurt people, I guess. I don’t want to end up a victim of yours or help you hurt others to heal, so I’ll just stop engaging. Good luck with your healing.

Does it actually help anything, though? If you hurt people, they just learn to avoid you, you don’t change their minds. I’ll stop engaging with you, if you’d prefer that. I don’t want you to be engaging simply because you can’t not.

That you’re still engaging suggests some part of you does, yes. You’re a banger of a commenter and can often be a benefit to the conversation but…you’re kind of rough when anyone disagrees or pushes back against you.

Have a good one.

Now you seem to be inventing motives necessary to support the incorrect assumptions you’ve made…

Hard disagree.

That’s uncalled for, and you know better.

Because you keep redirecting the conversation whenever it suits you.

Because you changed the topic I was offering clarity for. I did not offer to clarify anything you wish.

You took my offer to clarify the “false accusations” part and used it as a means to pivot to the broader topic, in general. This is disingenuous and you seem to do that quite often, looking at your post history (something I normally wouldn’t do, but since you decided to do so…) I offered to clarify around that claim, not whatever part of the topic you prefered.

This is pure projection. The shape of your entire posting here has been pivoting, mischaracterization and redirecting.

Calling in the backup? You being here is a choice you make to waste your own time that you chose to consider wasted.

Which comment? Because the comment that seemed unclear was apparently not what Velma wants to address now.

So not about the unclear part where your assumption was wrong?

“Claiming” to have been. You again dropped that part. Do you know why?