American car companies refuse to make the cars people want and instead try to tell people what they want, and then cry foul when people buy imports that have what they want.
"Employees were complaining about low morale. So we threw them a mandatory after work pizza party for team building! It was a real hit, almost everyone showed up!"
Yeah, I was just more commenting on their use of the "hill to die on" thing than the quality or value of their argument. Like there wasn't anything I was doing to indicate it was a hill I was willing to die on, certainly not any more than they were.
That said, it wasn't just downvoting, several other people also jumped in to argue with them, and honestly they just seemed to be acting antagonistic for no reason.
And while downvotes aren't always an indicator of a weak argument, they certainly can be.
So weird, someone just told me I was willing to die on a hill for my opinion when they were getting downvoted to oblivion for their opinion, and holding to it.
I.e., figuratively, they were on their hill taking shots from all sides, unwilling to yield, and yelling down to me - with my similarly opinioned compatriots - that I was willing to die on my hill. It was so bizarre and I was thinking about how they didn't understand the meaning of the phrase, and then I came across this post.
This may not be the case here, but idioms like this can sound particularly weird when they're in a language that isn't your first language. This one doesn't sound weird to me except when used in the wrong way lol.
So just to be clear, the phrase isn't just about having differing opinions, nor actually putting your life on the line. It is about steadfastly holding to an unpopular (currently, or in the immediate context) opinion in the face of adversity. The more unpopular it is, the bigger the hill it seems to be, with fewer people defending it. In the military context the idiom derives from, hills were strategic goals and holding hills gave advantages. The harder a hill was to defend and hold, the more willing you needed to be to die to defend it (literally). In the idiomatic sense, "dying" might be more like getting yelled at from all sides - or downvoted in a huge way...
You said you have a few opinions you would be willing to die for. That's probably a bit more extreme than this phrase is intended for.
