I apologize to one and all for the "Should disqualify" in thread title. Ambiguous, and not, apparently, the claim under review. I gave little thought to thread title, partly because my initial idea was to move this split to Elsewhere and/or Lock it.
I kept the thread in part as a paragon or exemplar of what some of these "debates" devolve into. This one began with Metaphor objecting to
Would have been too dispiriting if he lost over a disability irrelevant to the job.
Is the disability COMPLETELY irrelevant to the job? No, of course not. Lots of things aren't COMPLETELY irrelevant to a legislator's job — , being rich, being poor, biting fingernails, not to mention dating 17-year old girls, thinking a snowball refutes global warming, inciting sedition, or swallowing "Jewish space laser" crackpottery.
Almost every single post on this Board contains a sentence which is not 100% COMPLETELY correct. Jokes and obvious hyperbole should be ignored of course, but I'm not alone in ignoring about 99% of the false statements I read here or anywhere. Life is short.
Metaphor felt that the word "irrelevant" was wrong and pointed that out. Fine. I don't blame him.
And then it went on and on and on. And On and On and On. There were 135 posts in the Fetterman derail when I did the Split. The nesting was horrifically deep.
Do you have any idea what it is like to be relentlessly accused of things you did not say and do not believe no matter what you say?
Fine. Evidently you think Fetterman's condition will soon abate and that anyway it will have no effect on his performance. Your initial intervention was ONLY to help educate a fellow Infidel on the fine-grained nuances of the word "irrelevant."
You have no opinion on Dr. Oz's qualifications, or Herschel Walker's, or any of the other UNqualified candidates, but needed to expound on the word "irrelevant."
Can you imagine how this seems to people who are using the thread to discuss the elections? One post wasn't enough for you. You devoted hours to defend some picayune glott and now tell us that "you did not say and do not believe" anything about Fetterman's qualifications.
You ask "Do you have any idea what it is like ...?" Do YOU have any idea what it is like to engage in "discussion" with YOU?