As in: the inevitable post mortem condescension, delivered with the inevitable patronizing tone (you probably consider it 'avuncular').
"Oh, those poor deluded Liberals...
"They couldn't possibly have a counter-argument with teeth, because they refuse to accept the vision of the world we insist is true -- and it must be true, because we insist it is. But so many of them are obviously intelligent, articulate, and rational...
"Why, they must be being deceived! We should tell them! Then they'll realize that rationalization -- oh, I mean rationality -- can lead only to agreement with us."
Pferdescheiß.
Speaking personally (as if it were anyone's business, least of all yours), I have no truck with such organizations as the type you postulate have enticed me and my fellows to believe them, rather than you and your ilk. I prefer to read primary sources and draw my own conclusions. That is, after all, the mark of rationality. Moreover, I have no money, so such pleas and/or trickery as you have hallucinated for your latest fantasy would fall here on blind eyes and deaf ears -- if, in fact, they existed at all.
I do not think it too much a stretch of the imagination to claim to speak for others here, as well.
The more I force myself to read the twists and turns of Eby, and others like him in the larger world, the more I am reminded of the years of Joe McCarthy*. I have already refreshed Tom's memory of the word "dupe" from that era -- call it a gift, as he was floundering for a concise word, and I provided one from his favorite historical period (see also: "Commies under the bed"). I now resurrect "Pinko" and "fellow traveler" -- as deliberate ridicule of my so-called worthy opposition's incapability of learning from a history they themselves have lived through.
Shall blacklists be next to stalk the Land of the Political Undead?
[* -- Interested bystanders, and those too young to remember first-hand,may find this illustrative... and thanks to Davin for reminding me of the exchange.]
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- I can't help but wonder...
- Who wrote the book of love... (n/t)
- You also can't help but be predictable
- Just another talent...
- re: "come and gone"
- how can you tar Fox, Robert et al with the same brush as 'go insurgents'?
- Easy: tar -czpf insurgents /root/worthy/fox /root/worthy/fox
- hey bro, me big mojo, you get mine ponitifications serious-like ..
- oops:tar -czpf go_insurgents.tar /root/worthy/fox /root/worthy/fox (n/t)
- re: oops:tar -czpf go_insurgents.tar /root/worthy/fox /root/worthy/robert
- LOL...suh-weet! (n/t)
- A ClearCase can be made that you should ZIP it and SIT (n/t)
- ant, um, it is clear now that this is the prologue to a flame war.... (n/t)
- Your right, Robert- I am only the Shell of the geek that you were bourne as. But please don't bash me too hard. (n/t)
- Oh, I wouldn't bash you, though I might hash you and /bin you (n/t)
- Hmmm, I compute a key collision in this attempt to hash this thing out. I think we should not cast the object of this disagreement too strongly, I'm not sure I could, er, find the class in my library… (n/t)
- It's a matter of using the framework and respecting the class hierarchy, through which one inherits authority (n/t)
- Although, through reflection, one can free oneself from the class hierarchy, and undermine its protections and the privacy of its members. (n/t)
- Worker threads of the world, interrupt! You have nothing to lose but your call chain! (n/t)
- hey, I take exception() to, umm, Calls like that! Watch where you pointer that thing! Referncing things ut of memory like that could lead to global insecurity! (n/t)
- Worker threads of the world, interrupt! You have nothing to lose but your call chain! (n/t)
- Although, through reflection, one can free oneself from the class hierarchy, and undermine its protections and the privacy of its members. (n/t)
- You Glib cat's need to be less object oriented and more interpretive before this thread turns into a huge Python. (n/t)
- It's a matter of using the framework and respecting the class hierarchy, through which one inherits authority (n/t)
- Start preparing scripting.
- Shhhh! Stick with the script! (n/t)
- Hmmm, I compute a key collision in this attempt to hash this thing out. I think we should not cast the object of this disagreement too strongly, I'm not sure I could, er, find the class in my library… (n/t)
- Oh, I wouldn't bash you, though I might hash you and /bin you (n/t)
- re: oops:tar -czpf go_insurgents.tar /root/worthy/fox /root/worthy/robert
- Easy: tar -czpf insurgents /root/worthy/fox /root/worthy/fox
- Your "talent"
- Treason is not protected by the First Amendment.
- Just another talent...
- you really should see an opthalmologist about that winking problem
- "Nazis...in the HabitableZone...shrieking 'treason!'"
- Sky: not falling. Calling your friends treasonous scumbags: likely to stir up some resistance.
- I Was Thinking Something Similar Today
- Because it is a fine line they play with.
- Compassion has nothing to do with it.
- Depends on the situation
- Please Explain
- Only when it's "your" Libeerty
- A nation of laws
- Compassion has nothing to do with it.
- Because it is a fine line they play with.
- wonder away... (n/t)