roachboy

thanks for translating the post, in your own way, ustwo.
it does less now.
good work.

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on to the comments at the bottom of your post:

if what you say is true, and the matter at hand differences of interpretation of the same data, then why dont your posts reflect that?

generally, the way things work with your posts is either (a) stubborn restatement of the position that you started with or (b) substitution of other data that will then enable a restatement of the position you started with.

but if you're thinking behind the scenes is different than this, then why not write in ways that are closer to that---it'd be more interesting to have actual dialogue than the charade that we find ourselves playing--mutually--over and over and over.

it'd probably help the environment.
less gas emitted from two major sources (that would be yourself and me) can't be a bad thing.

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caveats, corrections:

like it or not, ustwo, i write too fast to worry about what you might make of my word choices. most of what i write is in shorthand, so it tends to get a bit abstract--but the words i use are technically correct, so i dont worry about that.
believe it or not, i talk like this.
worse still, i write like this.

so chalk it up to a quirk, like i chalk up your willingness to talk about yourself as part of some Elite Cadre within the bigger space of human beings.

just one of those irritatants in the world.
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the posts that take longer to write are those that i'm not sure i ought to put up at all. most of them, i vaporize.

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information as to usage: i use tfp politics mostly as a differentially engaging form of procrastination.
if it took me too long to write here, it wouldn't be functional.
so it doesn't take anywhere near the amount of time that you might imagine.

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on the capitals:
it's an aesthetic choice on my part and i'll stick with it for now.

here's why:
at the moment, i'm writing something for a conference.
what concerns me is that if i start writing here in a more formal mode, i'll start letting things bleed from my more formal stuff into here.

it's probably neurotic, but this is where it comes from.
well that and i dont like how caps look.

but i'll take it under advisement, and see what happens after this stupid project is done. maybe the choice has outlived its utility.

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another caveat: somewhere along the line, i blurred this thread into the "iran is developing nuclear weapons" thread....the post you react to probably should have been there. i blame not having yet had enough coffee.

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o yeah--the notions of "world-historical figure" zeitgeist, positivity and negativity are all from hegel.
i didn't know that hegel was hip these days.
i must travel in the wrong circles.

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