Everything is pretty good for me, therefore I can dismiss the concerns of those for whom it isn't.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/907912641007558658 …
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You meant, I believe, "Things are pretty good". That's false. Things may be pretty good for you, but they aren't for most.
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Unless you meant something other than what you said, which you're saying you didn't, that is what you meant.
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"I did not say exactly what I just said."
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I mean, she's right that she didn't mean what I thought she meant. I was arguing against what was said, not what she meant.
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But I've read her manifesto, now. What she meant us that the dominant values and methods of modern Western soceity are good and effective.
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That's not what she said, but it's much worse b/c it relies on bad misreadings of opponents, ignoring how successes got won historically,
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forcing horseshoe theory onto things, and not adequately addressing the critiques from the left which even she acknowledges are good.
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If she dropped her manifesto immediately instead whining that I wasn't responding to what she said, then I could have seen that earlier.
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