I am. Just not very tolerant. Partly due to knowing that people are smarter and better than they can be bothered to be. And I see them failing their potential when they act like a dumbass, and not pointing out the dumbassery is doing them a disservice.

And none of that means I’m RIGHT. Which is why you do or don’t do like I do, YOUR CHOICE. Show similar courtesy and do the same for me.

Look at dick’s years-long insistence that he’s right and ECS is 1.6 or less and we can only tell if he’s wrong if

a) it goes past 560ppm CO2
b) we THEN are past 1.6C

being polite doesn’t change his made up mind. His refusal to use swearing or namecalling does not remove his absolutely braindead moronic claim from being fucking ignorant and stupid.

And when you challenge me to a no-vituperative conversation, would YOU accept a challenge of a scores-long foul language conversation? No. Because that would be for you completely pointless.

You, however, inhabit your own head and therefore what you think is what is reasoned and therefore reasonable. So you don’t reciprocate.

“How can we fix that?”

Be honest. If you’re called a dumbass about something, maybe you honestly ARE a dumbass about it. Stop worrying about the irrelevant or find out if it IS relevant. Stop presuming. Stop living inside your own head and recognise that this is a multiplex world.

Stop letting swear words be the one and only determinant of whether there’s an insult. Because you can be insulted without a single foul word being said.

“We”? First realise where you need to change. Without that step, nobody else sees a reason why they should obey your dictates, seeing as you don’t follow them yourself about the change being needed. Then look again and see if there’s the changes where you thought they needed to be done. Because some of those changes were to make the world more like you, not you more like the world.

And, yes, that does sound priggish, but this is a limited conversation set and without a shit ton more words, it’s not possible to get nuance in it.

Kim is more frequently a female name than a male one, even in the USA, though. “Wow” is not a gendered name at all. So one of us has evidence to lend credence to a judgement call. The other one (that would be you) did not.

“And respectfully, I think that the “elephant in the room” is why there is so much division on our country today.”

No, the problem is that form is considered the definition of correctness. And your ignorance of substance is CAUSED by that idiocy. You think that any old shite is correct if it’s not countered by something you find more believable (remember, you are concerned only and solely about form, not substance) as long as it is said politely.

And so bullshite lives on because idiots like yourself go “Well, they never used rude words, they must be right!”.

Because you ignore substance.