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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Thank you. It's all too easy in this day and time to assume good faith with respect to our peers, rather than put them in the category usually reserved for those with brains long addled by Fox News and by constant banging on the ground while kowtowing to Trump. I will try to be gentle in the future, and remember that I am dealing with someone who has "challenges".
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I change my mind. Like every afternoon. Flower can say that's lying. You can say that's me showing an underlying consistent bias. Ty can say its because I'm a closet conservative.
In actuality, I'm a somewhat rootless relativist. Almost any argument will appeal to me at some level, and so one day I'm here, the next I'm there. And if I think you really care deeply about something, I'll criticize it. Maybe it's jealousy... or perhaps your caring makes me have to reconsider my view that life is meaningless. I've banked a lot on the notion that it goes nowhere and one might as well just indulge and have fun. If I were to find there were an afterlife, even a good one, or some existential reckoning during which not having taken a stand of any significant kind or held any particular view shared by others would cause me suffering, I'd be seriously pissed.
It used to be an act, but the cynicism has caved in the roof of my personality and so when I say one thing one day, one thing the next, and I defend someone like Trump, it's because, Does it Really Matter?
None of the economic debates we need will ever occur. This divide and conquer game will be played by real elites, using red herrings like race to pit credulous wanna be elites and deluded deplorables against each other, while the real issues go unaddressed. It's painful to watch so many be so duped. But then you think to yourself... People are really fucking stupid.
