HurricaneDitka, you are just so full of shit

[tomndebb]

@Budget_Player_Cadet

This is how I read the thread as well, and I find this pitting to be small potatoes indeed. The quibbling misses the point of the thread. The worst you can say about this thread is that HurricaneDitka did a poor job of explaining his thoughts in the OP, and a bunch of pedants jumped on him as a result. In polls, democrats regularly identify themselves as less patriotic than republicans. There’s an interesting discussion to be had about why that is. It would have been nice to have that discussion, instead of turning it into yet another tribe signalling exercise - “No, the poll is biased, you’re interpreting it wrong, blah blah blah”. All valid points, all utterly uninteresting and missing the point of the thread.

Actually, the thread title was “Why are Republicans generally more patriotic than Democrats?” and the closing statement in the OP was

@HurricaneDitka

Personally I don’t see any reasonable way to parse those results that doesn’t show Democrats as generally less patriotic than Republicans, but I’d be delighted to hear your theories and arguments as to why this is not so, if that’s the claim you wish to advance.

This was not a question about why Republicans and Democrats answer a particular poll in a particular way, which might have been an interesting question. It took the results of the poll and presumed that the poll accurately identified the actual patriotism of the respective parties without even identifying what patriotism was or attempting to identify how each group understood its definition.
The responses are not pedantic nitpicking; they are the natural response to a weird assumption applied poorly to different groups.
I do not think this Pitting was necessary, but your defense fails.