The candid reviews of the new rules, which went into effect Monday, even included mockery from Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who joked to reporters that she planned to “wear a bikini” on Tuesday.
The candid reviews of the new rules, which went into effect Monday, even included mockery from Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who joked to reporters that she planned to “wear a bikini” on Tuesday.
Can you see how offensive it would be if I started talking to you this same way, even if I don’t agree with you? Like coming out of the gate insisting that mine is the only possible understandable viewpoint, and calling you “bud” and telling you there’s something wrong with you, because you had the audacity to see it some other way?
Congressional salary is $174k a year. They can afford to wear suits. If it was someone who genuinely didn’t have the ability to (like someone showing up in court who doesn’t have a dollar to their name and the judge is dinging them for their clothes), I would 100% agree with you in that case, but this isn’t that. This is someone who has the money to dress however they want deciding to dress super-casually.
You can think that wearing casual clothes is fine; I get your argument and it makes sense to me. I just don’t agree. <– See how easy that was?
Nobody has been rude in this thread as far as I’ve seen. The comment you replied to didn’t say there was “something wrong with you”, just disagreed in a very direct way.
I think you are putting more into certain words or expectations than actually exist, while also projecting your own assumptions in order to allow you to remain the underdog. Perhaps that is tied up with your conviction that performative niceness is very important.
If I answered you with:
I hope you get over whatever makes you this way. I didn’t say the word rude bud, scroll up and check. You are failing to do that? You need to read everything written by the person I’m replying to. Who the fuck doesn’t do that? I genuinely don’t get it.
… that would be productive? Or not productive? Or how would you characterize it if I said that to you?
Okay now go read @[email protected]’s two comments to me.
Yeah maybe I’m being a little thin-skinned about it. But it’s a very bad way of interacting online, and I’m being direct about calling it out. Disagreeing in a direct way is good, right?
I can agree to disagree, I can even admit I came in hot and apologize, which I do, but bud is just my gender-neutral passive address.
No offense intended with that part.