"Mean-spirited."
I can sing a long song of that, having been the target of rethorical underhandedness more often than I could ever finbd tolerable. and I often learned that I get treated with quite some arrogance and being attacked in mean ways when I stick to something I say that others do not like. My patience then knows limits, yes. where I still see chances to have a communication, I I try again with arguments, often being answered with complaints about pointless walls of text instead.
This must be a great surprise to you
, Tchocky, but I fullheartly return the complaint you directed at me, and I could say the same that you said about me about quite some people here, usually always the same names, and that is the group of names that usually I no longer or only extremely rarely react to anymore, or even have on the ignore-list.
This is also the reason why with other people, who also may disagree with me, I find it easy to communicate, for they do not start to follow this path, and so I don't either. In principle, it is very easy to get along with me, the rule is just one: the stronger you push me, the stronger I push back. That's all. To some degree it seems one has to be loud and modestly aggressive in this forum if not wanting to get plowed under while saying something unpopular or somebody not liking you. I do not like to follow that path until the ugly end when it gets locked however, and also do not follow it that far anymore than I maybe did many years ago were it sometimes went on endlessly, so I tend to step out at some stage and leave the remaining people to themselves, then. They then sometimes say I would "avoid discussion". Well, let that little victory be there's, then - my ego can afford that .