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Ah you’re right, the council member.

Okay, I’ve reread it. What part of your comments should make more sense now?

I suppose they also say “Froderick”

My point is that you’re not making any responses which are relevant here. You’re making inventions out of your assumptions and trying to get other people to talk about those instead of the quote.

But the quote is right there, and it doesn’t matter if you think the actual mayor of Dearborn is an unrepresentative idiot or not, does it? Plenty of other folks disagree, and they’re not on the internet trying to set up straw men to dunk with.

That isn’t what the article said, it isn’t even what the rest of the quote I posted said.

Isn't it though?

Yes, of course - and pushback is deserved. They've fucked up and seemingly deliberately, out of a head-in-the-ass attitude. But there's nothing to gain from hurting them.

Actually, judging from their actions, I'd expect that hurting them would make them get shittier and I already know they have no idea how to direct their anger properly.

The ideal situation for me is that they find some shame and sit with it and come back after they get their heads out of their ass.

They didn’t. But I didn’t say they did. I said this was a fuck-up.

I think they wanted to punish someone who didn’t need punishment.

Furthermore, they didn’t have that available a choice. The choice was less harm or more harm.

Because of that, their choice seemed to them like a choice to punish, but it was actually a vote for more harm.

I don’t think they need to be punished for that. I don’t think they deserve to be hurt. In fact it’s one of the things I vote for. Less harm. Every time.

I just think it’s sad, I don’t need payback.

:)

I don’t see much of a difference between them wanting punishment instead of harm mitigation and myself wanting punishment instead of harm mitigation. I will keep hoping for less overall harm.

“They voted for Trump to punish the Democrats.”

Oh, that didn’t work. Losing elections isn’t the same as being punished. Not saying it was a bad move, I’m saying it was the wrong one. It was also a bad move though.

“All Harris had to do was stop the war.”

Oh is that it? Just as a VP / figurehead, swoop on over and say, “Stop it.” Man, why hasn’t anyone ever tried that before?

Dearborn, I hope your lives work out ok. You’ve really fucked up.

Good, eventually. Bad, at first.