Yeah, that was one of my points. I'm saying that it's people backing each others opinions mostly because they don't like me and because they are members of the same group. They're even attacking totally legitimate comments I'm making that have zero problems whatsoever. My point is that the objections to my above comment, and my comments in general, aren't based on a rational rejection of my arguments, as ahartell tried to say.
I don't want to insult everyone, I want to insult the people who are attacking me without warrant or who are attacking me in retaliation to my criticism. I also think I already explained about how addressing my concerns at "the community" makes sense.
Also, I have no idea how you're failing to understand how the comment supports what I'm saying.
I said: "Why do you think the dark side is any more separate from Harry than Hufflepuff?"
EY said: "His dark side wasn't an imaginary voice like Hufflepuff".
If you can't understand that those are similar then I don't know how to convince you of anything.
Oh, I see your argument now (not that I think it's decisive enough to make you interpretation "clearly" the correct one, but, you know, whatever) - notice though that there was no way I could have guessed it from the great^3-grandparent. I would have said that's why you were downvoted initially, but looking through your comment history it's quite possible there is someone automatically downvoting your comments regardless of content, in which case I really don't know what to tell you. Sorry about that.
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