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Originally Posted by jjv007
Seriously chill dude. The statement he made that got you riled up was part of a larger post and nobosy really made it into something except you. It's okay if you have a hard on for Bernie, just don't try to start an argument on here.
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This is the last response I will write to this, after which I will simply file the exchange as "the internet is a silly place".
My political opinions have nothing to do with this. You might notice indeed that I did not stated them, and you have merely assumed that because I reacted to this particular comment they have anything to do with Sanders. You might also note that I was explicitly trying to avoid an argument, not start one.
How many pages upon pages upon pages have been spent on this board in long winded and increasingly personal arguments over various and sundry political issues? All of them distracting from discussion of construction, development, etc... you know, the things we're all here to read about and discuss?
And always the same pattern. One person makes a snide off-hand comment or bloviating statement about such an issue, some others respond, then it goes back and forth and back and forth (kind of like how this now sadly has).
And the first person or those who agree with them always cry innocent and insist it was the people who reacted who "started an argument."
Again, this is not a place for anyone to press their political perspective (observe that I have still not said a word about mine). And while there is certainly some gray area with regard to the council, PA budget issues, etc... There is no such excuse for bringing up federal financial regulation ahead of the PA primary. Maybe nobody would have said anything if I hadn't. But similarly silly things have derailed many threads here before.
Many of us already can't use facebook, walk over to the water cooler, or even spend time with our own families without having this election dragged into it... surely a message board dedicated to the design and construction of skyscrapers ought to be safe?