Nobody said we couldn't.

So who exactly has the "authority" to speak on the subject/interrupt your pity party?

This is one solution. Give it a try.

The guy that knows how to got sugar but typically he knows that the people with sugar rig it against us so they can keep all the lemonade to themselves so he knows better than to tell us to 'just make lemonade'.

So the guy that happens to agree with you.

So it really has nothing to do with credentials. Just confirmation bias.

Reading it that way is coincidentally confirmation bias.

I already said i'm not open minded on the subject either. I've made up my mind which stance I think is more productive.

But no, that's the only way to read it. You described someone who agrees with you.

I described someone that typically agrees with me. Important word to truly get the context of what I'm saying.

I get it, you think it's more productive to sip lemon juice pretending it's lemonade and refuse to acknowledge that you can't make lemonade with out sugar. I'll leave you to that delusion.

Nobody and everybody.

Him agreeing with you was built into the description, lol. If he thought making lemonade was a viable option despite all the sugar cartels rigging it against you, he wouldn't fit your description.

And the lemonade thing is just a simple way of saying try to play the hand you have as best you can. You're no more qualified to speak on it than I am, by your own standards.

Yes, but the word typically was also built into the description meaning that those that don't are still an authority.

You don't get to cherry pick words out of what I say to push a narrative, it's as disingenuous as thinking you can just make lemonade with out sugar.

I know what the saying means but the saying assumes that everybody has the sugar to make lemonade when all life gave you was lemons, not sugar. It's not saying it's impossible to get the sugar to make lemonade it's just saying that it's not as easy making lemonade when you don't have the resources to do so and the people that act like it is are the ones that had sugar all along.