[A4ET8a8uTh0]

I go where the argument takes me. Is it my fault that OP did not actually check the background of the person they were defending on ( apparently based on this fact alone ) purely political grounds? No, how dare I actually read the article and, the horror, look up the person at the center of attention. After all, I am not supposed to do that. Facts are evil. My eyes will deceive me as it is likely Russian propaganda.

What I am supposed to do is to blindly go all-in for defense/attack depending on whether it is my team or not my team? Sorry, I don't swing that way. I smack people as needed depending on how easily their argument could be defeated.. here it took a google search so I was being generous with a smack on the hand whack.

<< I suspect the ordering of the list on the site matters. so of the prominent, public things that Ben-Ghiat self-identifies as, commentator is the _least_ important.

How dare you assume the order of importance in which Ruth views herself? How dare you even assume there is an order? What if I suspect she is the believer in chaos and the order semi-randomly selected each day and rotated backwards for maximum confusion. Just as plausible as your half-baked explanation, but at least mine has the value of being entertaining.

In all seriousness, did you even THINK of asking her? Such a man thing to do.. explaining what SHE meant.

[V-eHGsd_]

this reads like an LLM generated argument. it's totally incoherent and has almost nothing to do with what's being discussed.

cheers, friend.

[A4ET8a8uTh0]

Ahh, the llm defense.. I genuinely expected a little more. Shame.

[V-eHGsd_]

it's not a "defense". i'm saying your reply is weirdly bombastic and generally incoherent.

[A4ET8a8uTh0]

Stop. Own your approach. Good grief man, you act like your tactic is some sort of secret strategy, but it is obvious -- so why even try to deny it.

<< reply is weirdly bombastic and generally incoherent.

Bombast should not prevent you from being able to form an argument.

Incoherence would, but then it would make sense to point out something specific hang on. Otherwise, we are just putting random words together... you know.. like llm?

[V-eHGsd_]

it's not a defense because despite your efforts to antagonize, I don't need to defend myself.

i'm over our little interaction. cheers.

[A4ET8a8uTh0]

And yet you respond to tell me how you don't need to respond. I find the contradiction to be of note.