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by gigatexal 885 days ago
Because something is popular doesn’t make it right. Politicking to win influence by making outlandish claims and appeasing fringe folks with conspiracy theories makes me think he’s more h hinged than politically adept.

But I can’t tell if your rebuttal is sincere or you’re trolling. I hope it’s a troll because if sincere I’m thinking your ends-justify-the-means thinking is dangerous.

I guess my vote will cancel yours but if there are more tech folks that think like you I’m going to buy puts on the whole idea or America.

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Well I guess that went just about how I expected it would.

You like to keep at a safe distance, judging and criticizing others' in vague terms, or just misrepresenting, but not saying much about your own. You accuse others of being dangerous, bad, therefore implying that you're right, and good. Perhaps it's your own guilt that your projecting..and the need to criticize others? Your own unmet needs, including, for absolution?

I'm interested in what you did or what experiences you had that made you feel so guilty like that? Perhaps critical or absent parental issues and no sense of belonging so the criticism is the hard shell you use to survive, insulation for the love you never got? Or military service that you came to disagree with, and now you're seeking for an answer and meaning in the 'revolution...of goodness'? Hahaha! :)

But on the whole this tactic you use -- it's pretty ego driven and insensitive...funnily enough tho, this absolutism, and non-inclusive authoritarian labelling of others as "wrong" has unfortunately come to characterize much political discourse! Like I was saying, people can't talk.

But back to you...Why are you like that, tho? Do you know?

You "can’t tell if your rebuttal is sincere or you’re trolling"? Do you often have trouble understanding people? I guess that could explain why you seem to find it difficult to talk about these things without being supercilious and acting as if others are morally beneath you.

If you wonder why I bother trying to talk with you when you have obvious contempt...it's because I feel like there's something better in you than what you show! :) I get you're afraid to show that, tho...But I see it.

Now to your points, they mostly seem mischaracterizations:

- What end justifies means 'thinking' in what I said? What if there's nothing that requires justification? To suppose there is, seems like it's your projection.

- 'Dangerous' is a subjective label, not a fact. What 'dangerous' in what I said, to you? But it's funny to accuse others of being dangerous---don't you think the way you're treating others is...dangerous?

- 'Think like you'? Do you really know how I think? No, you don't. But, tell me how do I think, to you?

- Your vote will cancel mine? What vote? What canceling? Are you talking as an American of the election?

> Politicking to win influence by making outlandish claims and appeasing fringe folks with conspiracy theories makes me think he’s more h hinged than politically adept.

Don't you think that characterizes much of democracy, tho?

Have a good one man! :)