cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
29d ago
I honestly can't ever remember you speaking up in approval of a ban, and a signal that always says the same thing is not a useful signal. You should probably have a rating scale for how bad of a ban you think it is, that way your signal can vary. With 10/10 being literally hitler. And 1/10 being 'ok I acknowledge this is a good ban according to policies and everyone elses preferences, but i just really dont want you to ban anyone'.
cjet79
29d ago
Hmm, somewhat the opposite. Or at least you have the causation direction mixed up.
I assume I might have to do this again soon if not enough people noticed the first two bans. Its not that I'm punishing magicalkittycat for not noticing the examples. Its that magicalkittycat is one of the examples. And hopefully the last example needed.
I am split between love and hate for these kinds of phrases. I can appreciate the rhetoric and my favorite art form to consume is standup comedy which is basically all rhetoric. But funny and witty isn't the same thing as true or useful. Scott has a few good posts on this somewhere, but I can only remember where he makes the case that we haven't really been trying 'debate' and instead only been trying rhetoric: Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons.
I'd like to encourage people not to try and make more of these phrases, because most people horribly fail political touring tests. And instead of making gotcha phrases they instead make what I'd call a shitstorm of stupidity. The phrase betrays such an extreme ignorance that anyone confronted with it can only win by walking away and ignoring them (making the idiot even more confident).
Phrases such as
“Jet fuel can't melt steal beams”
“The Earth is flat, look out your window”
“If vaccines work, why do vaccinated people still get sick?”
“If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?”
“If the Earth was spinning at 1,000 mph we’d all fly off.”
I think more earnest conversations would do a lot of good. I have asked a few palestine supporters how they think palenstine might treat the Jews if they were suddenly in charge. Only one was fucked up enough to say something like "exactly as they deserve". Most of them got thoughtful looks and realized ... ya there might just be another genocide going the other direction. Which turns the situation into the old joke:
In the case of Israel we have already accepted there is going to be genocide, now how bad do you want it to be? And to whom should it be committed against?
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