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Rob,
Context and curiosity.
I'm on a songwriting website that is basically un-moderated. Unlike other missioned websites, people can talk about religion or politics at will, and anything else such as transexuals...what have you. People are allowed to be insulting largely at will. . Predictably, arguments abound non-stop.
I've got a guy that uses the site as a platform to proclaim his disdain for a political figure.
I once told the guy that Donald Trump was going to eat his foot for dinner, which was an absurd joke. The guy went into a diatribe about how offensive that was. I was stunned and concluded that the dude was probably truly neurotic. And that TDS was just one branch of that much larger tree.
Given that overall CONTEXT and atmosphere allowed at the site, when the same guy told me that I had "crossed the line," I couldn't help but be CURIOUS, what line and whose line, in his particular mind...had I crossed?
In that context, the notion of "crossing a line" seemed absurd.
Kinda like someone in a drunk tank telling someone else in a drunk tank, that they were nothing but a damned drunk.
So, I asked for some detail.
Follow up question... How many times are you going to announce that you are done with this back-and-forth?
Follow up question #2 Trump was on tv last night. No diatribe to register here?
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