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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Why? Unless you're certain you're right, which people are actually maybe 20% of the time, why would you be so earnest all the time?
People look at politics past and say "this happened because" and politics upcoming and say "this will happen because," but most of them are wrong, or right about result and wrong on cause. Otherwise, we'd have a few ringers who could basically put anyone who hired them in office or get any legislation he wanted to implement enacted.
You are offering your best conjecture, and the real aim in most political debate is to try to show how informed or smart you are, rather than to actually come to a valid prognosis (which usually involves compromise and cobbling together of the best points of each side).
Not being sarcastic in your political views seems kind of delusional. I don't think there's a snowball's chance in hell Hillary cn get elected. I could be wrong, so I might as well recognize that fact by making my bombastic pronouncement in a funny or sarcastic manner.
Besides, the ever-earnest aren't much fun.
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When you get this earnest about sarcasm, my brain starts to hurt.
But, yeah, kindah, some of the time.
