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>> No, the point is the logic of your initial dismissal was asinine > See? You think people who disagree with you are stupid! No. What I wrote was your "argum

>> No, the point is the logic of your initial dismissal was asinine > See? You think people who disagree with you are stupid! No. What I wrote was your "argument" was asinine. Read it again. However, the pattern of your reactions to what I've written are leading me to form certain opinions of you personally, but I don't generalize those to the class of "people who disagree with [me]." You're going off the rails. I suspect you're not actually engaging with what I'm writing, but a character you've created in your head.

dwoldrich 2mo ago
It's amazing how much discourse is just people pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible. Asinine means "utterly silly or stupid" and "ass-like". You can't separate criticizing the person making an argument from criticism of the argument when using a charged put down like 'asinine'. I have made reasoned arguments, nowhere near asinine tier. If you want to appeal to authority/experts or cite lefty prop, okay I guess. Otherwise, I've heard it all and done the research. I've lived too long and watched decades of doomer predictions fail. It's exhausting! Be tired with me, collapse! :) Finally, I never want you to shut up, I just want the grift you prefer (or at least tolerate) to end. The best I can offer you is political exile to the wasteland of failed ideas forever. ;)
- palmotea 2mo ago
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- dwoldrich 2mo ago
  I didn't flag you @palmotea, I prefer to keep the conversation going. I am sympathetic to your frustration, but your words have meaning, whether you are conscious of them or not and those meanings are as far as I can go to meet your mind. One of the last definitions of empathy is to possess a supernatural mind reading ability to understand what others are thinking. I must admit to my inability to read your mind in person or over the internets.

dwoldrich 2mo ago

It's amazing how much discourse is just people pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible. Asinine means "utterly silly or stupid" and "ass-like". You can't separate criticizing the person making an argument from criticism of the argument when using a charged put down like 'asinine'. I have made reasoned arguments, nowhere near asinine tier. If you want to appeal to authority/experts or cite lefty prop, okay I guess. Otherwise, I've heard it all and done the research. I've lived too long and watched decades of doomer predictions fail. It's exhausting! Be tired with me, collapse! :) Finally, I never want you to shut up, I just want the grift you prefer (or at least tolerate) to end. The best I can offer you is political exile to the wasteland of failed ideas forever. ;)

palmotea 2mo ago
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dwoldrich 2mo ago
I didn't flag you @palmotea, I prefer to keep the conversation going. I am sympathetic to your frustration, but your words have meaning, whether you are conscious of them or not and those meanings are as far as I can go to meet your mind. One of the last definitions of empathy is to possess a supernatural mind reading ability to understand what others are thinking. I must admit to my inability to read your mind in person or over the internets.