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>Steelman as much as you like, the fact is that health insurance companies really are evil, and the "great replacement" is wingding nonsense The point of the s
by gruez 2y ago
>Steelman as much as you like, the fact is that health insurance companies really are evil, and the "great replacement" is wingding nonsense
The point of the steelmaning isn't so "the great replacement" can be declared as "true", it's to point out it's not hard to come up with a slightly revised cause that isn't "wingding nonsense". Sure, it's easy to write off the guy who shoots up a school because of "the great replacement", but what if the next guy is shooting over Biden's immigration policy? Does he get a pass now because "The Biden administration really are evil", on the basis that "they're putting immigrants ahead of Americans" or whatever?
>We can't have a standard applies to both real political grievances and fake lunatic ones.
I'm so glad that there's a universal standard of what counts as a "real political grievances" that everyone can agree on!
- aaomidi 2y agoThere isn't a universal standard.
- ElevenLathe 2y agoRight, we're not doing politics on a frictionless infinite plane though. At some point, somebody has to make a judgment about the actual content of the complaint. Should we do single payer to prevent violent wingnuts from offing people in broad daylight to the tearful applause of millions? Yes, probably. Should we turn up the horror on the southern border even more to appease your uncle who is complaining about Qanon in the Craigslist "missed connections" section? Probably not. Why? We thought about it and decided the former is a good idea related to a real problem but the latter is just pointless cruelty that doesn't solve anything, not even getting people to stop complaining (since they'll just pick some other made-up problem). If you disagree, you're my political enemy and we have to work it out, hopefully without violence.