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PuhLease, your words seem to be an emotional gut-reaction, rather than a logical thought-out response.
I don’t believe that understanding this topic is marchik Mashiach, but crying “Mashiach isn’t coming because…” is generally an erroneous feel-good excuse for covering up what shouldn’t be covered up.
Emes is Hashem’s signature, and we are supposed to emulate Hashem in appropriate ways. This is one of those. There are times when tact and evasion may be called for (see Hashem’s response to Sara Imeinu last week), but this is clearly not one of those times when the truth should be covered up.
Everyone should know the truth about our faith whose Torah is a Toras Emes, and if people wish to, and/or otherwise do, distort our holy faith, then those distortions should be exposed as distortions so people are not mislead off the derech Hashem. This has nothing to do with being “self-righteous”. While there may be more than one right (and wrong) derech in avodas Hashem, that doesn’t mean just any alleged derech is proper/permitted. Abrogation of halacha, by any name, is not permitted.
(I’m sorry all the people you associate with are, in your estimation, (part-time?) liars. B”H, I don’t believe that to be typical of Klal Yisrael.)
I do agree with you, however, that these threads don’t replace a Rav. Pirkei Avos says “Asei Licha Rav”, not Asei Licha Coffee Room.