To engage with somebody, to invest yourself in convincing them of truth, takes part of your energy, expends a bit of the day's hope you have to give. I think wasting that energy is why people who've chosen an alternate reality so eagerly seek debate.
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I think there do exist people who are genuinely curious and open. I think there are people who have already selected the reality they want, and just want to waste your time and energy and hope. I think you can quickly tell the difference.
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I think wasting your time and wearing you out is very much the point of occupying a false reality. They've made their worldview a very heavy dumbbell, which they've secretly bolted to the floor. Now they want you to try to lift it. You don't have to. You have a race to run.
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Make note of the people who behave as if you are shirking a responsibility, when you decline their offer to try to move their bad opinion. You don't owe anybody a debate. It's not your job to convince. Run your race.
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Postscript: The bad opinion of those who mean harm is, however, useful for dissection. Publish it. Use it to name what is true. Use it to pull apart the lie. Don't involve the liar in the surgery. A liar hates that. Another good reason to do it.
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But FOX couldn't have told him that, because they edited the laughter out. So they edited it out to conceal the FACT that apparently the world was just joining Trump in a laugh? At his own ... joke? So when he's said his administration is the most accomplished, it's been a joke?pic.twitter.com/Jt8Mcrnzbq
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This has been a demonstration of how choosing to live in an alternate reality leads one to hold momentary and structurally untenable positions, which don't bear even the slightest consistency with one's previous positions, thank you for attending my TED talk.
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And to demonstrate what I mean by refusing the debate, and the telling reaction when you refuse the bait:pic.twitter.com/Q2fgOhdFZn
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lol dilbert guy commented so I'm going to get a lot of opportunity to practice what I preach when it comes to refusing debate with bad-faith actors luckily this baby is praying to give me strengthpic.twitter.com/OVqxXdCBPl
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I’ll check the tape again but I’m pretty sure “most of humanity” just laughed at the president right in his dumb face.pic.twitter.com/b6Mz3yqbfh
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You know what they were all thinking? That's a red flag.
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