arguing with a friend who disagrees with the left (as I do) but is very very lazy about it gotta steelman the other team, guys thinking about "going left" for a week or a month or year, for sake of the Discourse
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2/ I'm confused. First you say that it makes everyone mad, and then you suggest that it "doesn't work" ?https://twitter.com/The_Petrichory/status/1215741052058947584 …
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🍂 The Pectrichory 🍄 @The_PetrichoryReplying to @MorlockPDone this a few times on different forums. In my experience it: 1) Makes everyone mad. 2) Doesn't make their arguments any better. 3) Gets people to cozy up to me who I'd really rather not. Have you done this before and gotten it to work anywhere?2 replies 0 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
3/ I fondly remember a time back on Kim Dutoit's message board a million years ago where some Extremely Red Tribe guy was saying that flag burning wasn't speech and also it was dangerous, because if he witnessed it he'd kick the crap out of the hippy. He wouldn't even CHOOSE to
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4/ He'd be just physically incapable of not doing so. I suggested that I might choose to burn a flag and inquired as to whether me being armed might dissuade him from attacking. And if it did, what did that imply about his proposed "inability" to control his emotions?
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5/ and then further asked why he was hanging on a gun rights board if he was confessing to not having the emotional ability to control his aggression ; was that not ipso facto evidence that he should not be armed?
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6/ hahahaha nothing is productive nothing changes it's all doomed We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine And the machine is bleeding to death The sun has fallen down And the billboards are all leeringhttps://twitter.com/The_Petrichory/status/1215741987212496896 …
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7/ My discourse? I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT MY DISCOURSE!https://twitter.com/bara/status/1215743623230177280 …
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