You’re missing the point. I wasn’t trying to shame you because I attributed some attitude about youth to you. Not at all. I’d brought the poster’s youth up as a mitigating favor. As is clear in its context.

If I was going to shame you about anything, which I’m not, it might be for this comment:

“Yes. The fact that you don’t know that indicates that you need to do more ‘getting to know the city’, research before moving here.”

It was pedantic, remarkably rude and just silly.

You write that you’ve never misspelled the foreign name of any city or town in any country you’ve visited. Perhaps. Perhaps you never make mistakes. Another possibility Is that you have, but the locals had manners.

No. It doesn’t. It’s a simple mistake.

Are you as fluent in another language as this young speaker is in English? Do you never make mistakes when writing in your second language?

Everyone who’s so upset by “Pittsburg” [sic] should take it up with the powers behind the spellcheck that never flags it on Pittsburgh threads.

Seriously. That’s where your anger should be directed.

You’te an exchange student (perhaps not a native English speaker) and the fact that you misspelled “Pittsburgh” is totally understandable and not at all a big deal, especially given that your spelling would not be flagged by the spellcheck.

I hope you enjoy your time in the Burgh. I really think you’ll find most people here friendly and gracious, I’m sorry the same thing can’t be said about everyone on this subthread. Best wishes.

Your point about the Fetterman camp adopting a strategy to benefit as much as possible from pre-debate early voting is valid.

I think you’re likely over-rating how many voters would’ve changed their mind or not voted had they seen Fetterman’s debate performance though. The electorate is very polarized and, what’s more, understands that a senator has relatively little he or she has to actually do compared to, say, a governor.

You concede Oz was a horrible candidate. He was. Oz was also on the ballot with Mastrioni who managed to be just as bad, though for different reasons. It was a clownshow.