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I have made my opinion on the subject quite clear from the outset. Please don’t gaslight me into thinking I’ve somehow been hiding anything. I have not.

You have been entirely unclear and have been consistently evasive. I have noted several examples of this and you are avoiding them, too. Don't think I don't notice what you conveniently skip over when you respond. I am giving you the opportunity to save a little face but instead you keep trying to return focus to topics where you behaved shamefully. You have the options of moving on or getting into it, and when you get into it you have the disadvantage of having behaved very dishonestly in this exchange and being seemingly unable to acknowledge objective errors.

The entire time, I’ve told you what my position is. You’re simply refused to acknowledge it because you wanted a simple “yes” or “no” answer regarding a subject that is anything but binary.

I have not asked for a yes or no answer regarding "a subject". I asked a direct yes or no question and you hemmed and hawed for 5-6 comments and have now more or less fallen apart having provided an answer that was an "emphatic no", then a "yes and no" and now a "yes". At some point you will have to either accept that saying "no", "yes and no", and "yes" to a yes or no question is inconsistent or you will have to keep dealing with this congitive dissonance, as I am not going to validate your nonsense.

PS a yes or no question is indeed binary. That is the only property it has aside from being a question.

Okay I’m starting to wonder if maybe you have an overly literal way of thinking.

No, you just present a confused mess, don't respond directly to what is said, and dance around blaming me for your garbled mess of thoughts and deflections. I am not being "overly literal" in expecting a yes or no answer to my question, I stated my question as a direct yes or no precisely because liberal genocide apologists always try to dissemble, leaving their complicit answer implicit. And what did you do in response? You immediately tried to do their exact same dance. A near-complete incapacity to just answer the direct question.

It seems clear that what I was talking about was not you interpretation of my answer, but your opinion on it.

As in - do you agree? Disagree?

I have already stated, twice, that I'm glad we're in agreement given a "yes" answer. This is now a third time.

At the same time, I would not be surprised if you later contradicted yourself, as you have been anything but forthright and have already said every possible (explicitly incompatible!) answer to my question.

Do you think my answer is insufficient?

I think it is a very low bar to have cleared, but it is an actual "yes" answer to my simple yes or no question, so it is not insufficient for answering the question. 30 comments in, lmao. I did actually directly announce my acceptance of the "yes" twice and then move on to my point about it, but... alas.

Do you think I’m lying?

It is not a question that you have lied in this exchange. You have lied about basic facts of what has been said, objectively disprovable. You have also contradicted yourself repeatedly. I think you are about 80% confused and 20% willing to be dishonest to protect your ego, but that combination means you are acting shamefully.

Because you have literally given me an "emphatic no", "yes and no", and now a "yes" answer to my one question, I would be pretty stupid to think you are going to stick with the "yes" answer. But I am willing to be generous and move forward under the assumption that it is your actual, honest answer. I wonder how that generosity will be treated.

What is your actual follow up to “learning” (even though you already knew) that I am against genocide, and against voting for genocidal candidates? What happens next? Are you going to ask me something else, are you going to make a statement regarding this position?

I already provided a short follow-up. Presumably you did not read my whole comment before beginning your response. Remember, you have cleared an incredibly low bar. The conversation has to more or less start over at this point, we have returned to my very first point and your very first point. All of these intervening comments? They are just me trying to get you to answer a simple yes or no question, and now you have said "yes".

So you are overly literal. My answer was an emphatic no regarding supporting genocide and genocide deniers.

It is not overly literal to read you say you gave an "emphatic no" to my question, then I go read my question and say, "oh they are saying "no" to it" and work from there. It is a basic baseline of communication. It's not my fault that you are answering questions I never asked and then presenting them to me as if they were answers to questions I did ask. That is also not being overly literal.

When asked if I support them, I denied this emphatically.

You were never asked whether you "support genocide or genocide deniers". Throw this lie on the pile.

Two days ago I led with a question regarding support: "So then you agree that you should not support genocide nor vote for genocidal candidates?". You deflected like liberals do on this topic: "I disagree that the situation is that simple." I pressed you to answer, you dissembled and tried to talk about a bunch of things re: false choices and then told me it was a loaded question, though you lacked the terminology to just say that. This continued for some time, and I repeated my question. You then said your answer had already been stated as "no", though of course you had never said that, you were dissembling and rationalizing and saying the question was loaded. The whole point of a loaded question is that you cannot answer it without saying something false. So many self-contradictions, lol. I again repeated that I was looking for a yes or a no and you then provided a lengthy response that I ignored and continue to ignore. Haven't read it. Not going to. I set my condition and you blew right past it, confirming the dishonest behavior I was originally criticizing.

Then I asked my question again, albeit rephrased: "Are you against genocide and voting for genocidal candidates?" And then, and only then, did anything about "genocide" deniers pop up, out of the blue, and it was all from your own head. I ask you about voting for genocidal candidates and you act like saying "I don't support genocide deniers" is an answer to it. And you've just done it again! Do you see how confused you are? Of course not, that must be my fault. "Too literal", lmao.

Here’s a question - are you honestly unable to take anything other than the singular word “no” as a negative? Does “absolutely not” count? How about an explanation why, such as “I would never, because that is wrong!”? Now, before you say “but you never said these things”, these are what’s known as examples.

A key part of my original point, which you apparently still don't get, is that liberals are extremely averse to answering this direct yes or no question. Getting a direct yes or no is the point. And you flailed and flailed and confused yourself instead.

Now, before you say “but you never said these things”, these are what’s known as examples.

Certainly not examples of anything you or I have said. They are hypotheticals, poorly-framed. As you are trying to dispute what was or was not said, you might want to communicate what is something you're making up vs. something you're saying you did in the past. You have used both implicitly.

When I said “I do not support genocide of genocide deniers”, that is me emphatically denying support for genocide and genocide deniers. An emphatic “no”. When asked “do you” and I say “I do not”, that is a “no” in other words; a negative response; a denial.

Yeah again I never asked that question.

Here’s some honesty for you - it actually boils my blood to be told I’m lying when I know I’m actually speaking my mind. It angers me a great deal to be misinterpreted to such a degree. I am not lying.

You claimed you answered my question days ago when you obviously did not. Your reattempts at explanation, ones that ignore everything I've said to you about this, demonstrate that well enough. You are still presenting your answers to questions I didn't ask as if you had answered my one question! Still! This isn't complicated! It's a yes or no question!

If you took a few minutes to self-crit and actually read what was said, actually read what I said about this exact thing, you would recognize your error. Unfortunately you are not doing any self-crit at all, and are just trying to lash out irrationally, like a liberal, and are repeating these falsehoods. Sorry buddy, that's what lying looks like.

Do self-crit. I am going to skip responses that are just rehashing this one point because they are redundant.

Oh, please. Obviously I cared at least a little bit what you thought or else I never would have said anything. Don’t be so facetious.

I said "cared much", not "cared at all". You are still confused because you don't really read and understand what I say to you. If you took a few moments to think about it, you would also realize that your logic here would contradict what you had just said re: not caring anymore. You're still replying, aren't you? You should have a conversation with yourself from a few comments ago.

My response will have to be split in two as it is too long.