I have read this thread, and find it - in terms of both tone and content - quite interesting, and wish to add to what has been said.
Whether or not one disagrees with what @laptech, the OP, has suggested, I do think that to recommend that he simply ignore the threads in question as suggested by @chown - and it was thoughtful and respectful of @chown to respond as a member of staff - or, as others have written, to suggest that one "has choices" if one doesn't like how a business operates, or simply ignore this stuff and scroll by - is, in a way, belittling and denigrating of someone who started a thread in good faith.
It should be possible to simply disagree with somebody's posts, while commenting that you do not think that what this person would like to see is desirable, feasible, possible, without also suggesting that they simply ignore, or scroll by, the offending material, or take themselves elsewhere.
In other words, online exchanges don't have to be - or, ought not necessarily be - so binary in both tone and content.
Two more thoughts occur.
The first is that MR may have many reasons - and presumably, not solely commercial ones - for making a decision, a choice, to allow so many threads on such a topic to be posted and visible on the site.
The second is that this very activity that is being written about - the transfer of such manufacturing to the US from elsewhere - is clearly a reflection of - and response to - much that is currently taking place, - one can hardly attempt to argue that it is taking place in a vacuum, be it political or economic - and the plethora of such threads, in the complete absence of any attempt to provide context, - simply serves to make them a curiously frothy anomaly.
Personally, - and in the absence of the old PRSI thread, which was where it used to be possible to discuss such matters, if not, alas, without heat - I think that there is a case for MR itself creating a thread in the 'political news' section to allow for discussion of the transfer of these elements of technological manufacturing to the US.
Whether or not one disagrees with what @laptech, the OP, has suggested, I do think that to recommend that he simply ignore the threads in question as suggested by @chown - and it was thoughtful and respectful of @chown to respond as a member of staff - or, as others have written, to suggest that one "has choices" if one doesn't like how a business operates, or simply ignore this stuff and scroll by - is, in a way, belittling and denigrating of someone who started a thread in good faith.
It should be possible to simply disagree with somebody's posts, while commenting that you do not think that what this person would like to see is desirable, feasible, possible, without also suggesting that they simply ignore, or scroll by, the offending material, or take themselves elsewhere.
In other words, online exchanges don't have to be - or, ought not necessarily be - so binary in both tone and content.
Two more thoughts occur.
The first is that MR may have many reasons - and presumably, not solely commercial ones - for making a decision, a choice, to allow so many threads on such a topic to be posted and visible on the site.
The second is that this very activity that is being written about - the transfer of such manufacturing to the US from elsewhere - is clearly a reflection of - and response to - much that is currently taking place, - one can hardly attempt to argue that it is taking place in a vacuum, be it political or economic - and the plethora of such threads, in the complete absence of any attempt to provide context, - simply serves to make them a curiously frothy anomaly.
Personally, - and in the absence of the old PRSI thread, which was where it used to be possible to discuss such matters, if not, alas, without heat - I think that there is a case for MR itself creating a thread in the 'political news' section to allow for discussion of the transfer of these elements of technological manufacturing to the US.
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