| | Wolfer, a little debating tip for you, if someone can repeat right back to you everything you just said and it makes just as much sense, then you haven't really said anything at all.
In post 11, I said, "People are framing the "going on strike" issue in a strange way. They act as if only those of Galt-like stature can strike..."
I addressed this to the position "people" were taking because several people were taking the position that I was addressing, and it wasn't an attack on anyone - I just put forth an alternative.
Actually people were merely attacking the sincerity of those who claim to be on strike, no one ever suggested that any and every striker at all times must have at one time been a successful great productive genius, this was only the easiest and most obvious way to ascertain the sincerity of a striker. Any productive person can be a striker, but their productive nature ought to be evidential. It’s a rather simple point. Someone who has never done anything productive and has demonstrated no evidence of their capacity to do anything productive claiming to be on strike is indistinguishable from some degenerate who is merely trying to obfuscate their own failings from themselves in some twisted moral high ground.
But then Dickey, in post 13, started this with by doing exactly what you accuse me of doing - what you call evasive, pompous, and self-serving - when he said, "Well sure people might say America is on the verge of totalitarian dictatorship, and those people would be utterly stupid to express such a thing"
Ha, I hope you seriously aren’t referring to the fact that I used “sure some people …” since it ought to be obvious I was responding to your point, in your usual vague style that “some people” say such things. What People. And Is that YOUR position? If it is not YOUR position, then why do you care if I attack the validity of such a statement as utterly disgusting and absurd, which it is. If it were in fact YOUR position, but you were too cowardly to state as such and instead alluded to be by mentioning SOME people, then your indignant reaction makes sense. DO YOU think that America is on the VERGE OF TOTALITALIRAN DICTATORSHIP, yes or no? Or do you merely find it comforting to inform me of whatever random whim happens to cross some idiots mind? Hey, Maybe the US is on the Verge of become a Zionist client state, or a communist paradise, or a theocratic aristocracy, I’m sure SOME people, SOME WHERE, think each and every one of these things.
‘Some people’ are perpetually evasive and disguise their pompous arrogance through pacifistic platitudes, hiding behind allusions in the attempt to appear to themselves that they are above any such trite discourse and wouldn’t dare lower themselves to the hum drum tit for tat dialog of the mob. They give themselves a big ol pat on the back for being so noble and austere, like some kind of monk whose achieved a nirvana state of simultaneously arguing various points but never actually ‘lowering’ himself to the status of arguing! They like to throw little grenades of hot topics instigating debate and pop their heads in occasionally to reinforce the perception monkish state of superiority. ‘Some people’ might call such people trolls. ‘Other people’ might laugh at those, since they actually grant sincerity to the actors, a troll is at least honest with himself about the nature of his actions…
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