Objectively intelligent.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

The left yes, not the mainstream. The mainstream of the country is centrist. I don't think conservatives dislike centrists.



I'm viscerally irritated by people stating things that are factually dubious, or frivolous, and then using narrative technique to fraudulently assert they are facts, or science.



Because no one takes them seriously. I'm also situational. People here embrace left silliness, but not right silliness.

If I'm listening to right wing friends, it's a different conversation. I can just say, "That's untrue... Total bullshit." If they persist in saying, say, that the election was rigged, I can just laugh.



I'm anti-racist in the sense that I am against racism. I am not anti-racist as Kendri has defined that adjective.



Fish in a barrel. Most of them are absurd. But when they aren't absurd -- when they're clever and dangerous in use of narrative to overcome fact such as in the run-up to the Iraq War, the record here speaks for how much I care about them. I doubt I've ever written as bitterly as I did in regard to the Bush Administration's campaign of lies.



No. I'm all over the place. Left on this, right on that. I go issue by issue.



They aren't. Progressives are the fringe. A growing fringe, but still fringe.



That's what happens when the media becomes a self-censoring circular firing squad of scared editors and corporate lackeys cowering from Twitter mobs.

I'm still amazed Twitter has so much power. These corporate types are so clueless. They could easily break the power of Twitter by simply ignoring it. It's not even really a mob. It's a small cabal of malcontents and professional whiners. Who cares what Twitter thinks about anything?

You have responded individually to specific sentences but in doing it that way you have completely lost the thread of my argument and are not responding to it at all. My point was that in one fundamental respect, you are like conservatives; in another, you are not. If you care to respond to what I was saying, please try again.