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    2 years ago

    I don’t care if those “tough guys” want to slog it out

    Okay well, what you care about has zero bearing on whether or not these actions are childish.

    but the choice of time and place

    The choice of time and place is irrelevant when the instigating party said, and I quote, “anytime, anywhere”, and then when their challenge was accepted, stood up, ready to engage in said challenge.

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      One of those people is not a US Senator. The Senator was the one bringing it up, getting all worked up over a Tweet. The Senator, chose “Congress” as the place and “during a hearing” as the time. Both these decisions are absolutely unfit for a US Senator.

      Go fucking meet the guy behind a 7eleven after work or something like that. But nooo, the Senator said “here is a place, now is a time” because he needed to look like a tough guy in front of cameras.

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        One of those people is not a US Senator.

        I don’t understand why you’re telling me this like I don’t know.

        The Senator was the one bringing it up, getting all worked up over a Tweet.

        A Tweet where he was challenged to a fist fight.

        The Senator, chose “Congress” as the place and “during a hearing” as the time.

        After being challenged “anytime, anywhere”.

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      I think it’s unreasonable to take the literal meaning od ‘anytime, anywhere’. Like, if he was attending a funeral and the senator turned up and challenged him there, would that still be appropriate? How about if he was visiting a kindergarten? While he’s helping an old woman cross the road? Performing first aid on an injured person?

      There are still times that are appropriate and not appropriate. You could say that the challenge itself was childish and I would agree. But the anytime, anywhere condition doesn’t make it unconditionally ok for the senator to pick this time and place.

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        There are still times that are appropriate and not appropriate.

        There are no times or locations that are appropriate to challenge a grown man to a fist fight, as if that somehow would settle the differences.

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          Honestly I agree. I just don’t think that excuses the Senator from actually accepting the challenge at that time and place (or arguably any time and place, but especially that one). Two wrongs don’t make a right…

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              The choice of time and place is irrelevant when the instigating party said, and I quote, “anytime, anywhere”, and then when their challenge was accepted, stood up, ready to engage in said challenge.

              In response to people saying that the Senator acted inappropriately. But perhaps I misinterpreted. Are you saying they both acted inappropriately? In which case I agree, but I’d still say tweeting a challenge is less inappropriate than actually accepting that challenge at that time and place.

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                Are you saying they both acted inappropriately? In which case I agree

                Yes that is exactly what I’ve said.