roachboy

politicophile: think about the options--what exactly would you have me do?

i am completely opposed to the politics that you espouse.
the question is whether i talk about the effects of the public discourse that shapes the political views of many folk on the right, or i could pretend that a messageboard is transparent, that posts in a messageboard can rationally be connected to who the poster is as a human being in any detail and launch on that basis personal attacks. i do not do the latter. i restrict myself to the former. sorry that you dont like it--so long as you understand why the posts look as they do, the question is aesthetic and as such doesnt concern me.

i think that reasonable people can derive bizarre views of the world if they allow the present conservative discourse to shape them.
this result is a function of how discourse works: it posits signifiers and modes of linking them: the result of that is a carving up of information and the offering of modes of linking factoids together.
so when my posts happen, they are always focussed on the patterns of thinking.
i generally see folk from the right reproducing these patterns, most often at the center of their positions.

this tendency makes positions from conservatives here look like cookie-cutter results at times---i react to that.

finally, i am totally opposed to this discourse, to this politics and find alarming what this discourse does in debilitating the thinking of people who i assume to be otherwise reasonable folk. so it is not--ever--a matter of finding folk from the right to be stupid as human beings--it is that i find the frame of reference you use to lead you (plural form of "you") leads you to narrow and often surreal interpretations of the world.
and because this is a mass politics, i find this dangerous.

and for some reason that i have long since stopped understanding, i find it occaisionally to be worth my time to run out counterarguments in this space.

so you know.
sorry you dont like it, but there is really nothing i can do.

i could, of course, simply attack you as a person for your politics, as you do above to me.
but that is tiresome, at all ends.

give me a better strategy and i'll consider it.

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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

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