“Incredulity” is probably a bit much, but yeah, I was curious. More conversationally than in terms of quantifiable pursuit, I’d say. In truth, regional differences in temp make any broad sweeping strokes about these things pretty-well useless, I suspect.

I’m not going to trap you into supporting some weird shit or anything.

Lol… well, you can always try.

it’s probably on me and my ’tism for why this went off-rails.

Hmm, that’s interesting. So in this case it manifested as a need to ‘calibrate me’ upon the points you were making? Me, I might just be on the spectrum myself, but I’m sadly not very good about self-awareness in terms of communication. Also on my end, being half-asleep due to my chronic health issue probably isn’t helping add clarity…