15/ Star Wars is good entertainment. I saw it in the theater as a kid, and watched it a dozen times since. Good vs evil, no nuance, brave overmatched rebels ... great drama. ...but the real world is usually more complicated. If the foreign policy establishment tells you >>>
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16/ that some particular fight between East Bumistan and West Bumistan is a fight between pure good and pure evil, orphans and plucky working mothers on the one side, and stormtroopers on the other side ... don't trust that. That's propoganda.
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17/ Your tweet was "This guy is so oblivious that he thinks an evenhanded point is to cite the guy who doxed me". You may be factually correct that MT doxed you...but your "rebuttal" to my point that you worked for a neocon think tank is an ad hominem https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1504448938790764551 …
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18/ If you didn't work at a neocon think tank, say so. If you're not related to a famous neocon (not a taint by blood, but suggestive of household culture, family loyalties, etc.) say so. Saying "TJIC cites MT for the source of this claim and MT is bad" is >>>
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19/ either an ad hominem vs Michael Tracy, or the genetic fallacy, perhaps, because my data comes from a source you dislike.
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20/ ok, this is an actual rebuttal, and my it shows that my claim was somewhere between "not useful" and "flat out wrong". I retract it and apologize to you
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What was the substance of the now-deleted rebuttal? Because that seems of interest beyond this thread.
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Replying to @MorlockP @neontaster
Not meaning to - but he seemed to make a correction you accepted, and I was curious re the refutation of Tracey.
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He was IT network and backend support, not a policy position.
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@neontaster has clarified, and I issued an apology
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