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Yeah keep going, if it makes you feel good. The fun part about dealing with people who are attracted to catchy slogans and binaristic thought generally is that
by dreamweapon 12y ago
Yeah keep going, if it makes you feel good.
The fun part about dealing with people who are attracted to catchy slogans and binaristic thought generally is that they tend to get really touchy when you call them on it.
Which is what seems to be happening, here.
- aburan28 12y agoQuite to the contrary it seems, but I digress.
- eevilspock 12y ago"That's quite an oversimplification." is no less a catchy slogan, and labeling it "binaristic thought" is no less binary if that's all you write.
- dreamweapon 12y agoSorry if it came across that way, but if so, it wasn't my intention. It's just that I find it weirdly and sadly ironic that quite frequently, among those in our community who are the most strident and radicalized in their opposition to the surveillance state -- we find such incredibly simplistic and/or manipulative styles of thinking, and an impulsive tendency to resort to various forms of intellectual bullying... that are the standard tools of the systems that they fancy themselves to be in opposition against.
- tptacek 12y agoComplaining (or even mentioning) downvotes is usually a bad rhetorical strategy. Just ignore the votes altogether.
- dreamweapon 12y agoExcellent point.
- kbenson 12y agoIt's also, by it's nature, off-topic (unless it expounds on the reasoning), and therefore worthy of it's own downvotes for that reason alone. It's not all that different than real life, it's just harder to ignore the social cues when they are represented by a number.