Well, useful or not, I think I made it quite clear in the portion of my response you ignored, how wrong it is to reward awful humans for their awful behavior.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:14 pmYou write in rhetorical terms that are not very useful.seeds wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:29 pm When I was a child, little did I realize that the Superman comics I used to read back then -- the ones that featured "Bizarro World" -- were actually giving me a prescient glimpse into the future.
Indeed, in what has actually become a real Bizarro World, if it serves the purpose of facilitating the goal of reshaping our society into some vague and ill-defined greater vision of what it should be, then, by all means, AJ,..
Furthermore, you write in terms that clearly display the presence of an extremely intelligent owner of a beautiful mind who, unfortunately, is "unwittingly" afflicted...
(with the term "unwittingly" being the insidious hallmark of the affliction)
...by the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Actually, at least in terms of this particular thread, the conversation that I am most interested in, revolves around the question of why you think despicable and unethical people should be rewarded for their behavior.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:14 pm However, I do myself sometimes feel as you do. When things go sour, they really do go sour, and then all sorts of consequences loom.
The actual conversation to be had is about what happened, how it happened, and a great deal else related to that. Yet is is next to impossible to have that conversation with people who seem only, or largely, to be fighting partisan battles. It is so tiresome.
And, again, regardless of the alleged intent underlying your support for one such person...
(and, yes, the giant watermark T is clearly visible beneath your script)
...that's exactly what you are doing.
Indeed, you are rewarding an utterly loathsome person by voluntarily contributing to the means by which said person can acquire the power he so desperately craves.
And he craves this power (and glory and adoration), not just for the sake of satiating his enormous ̶k̶e̶i̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ ego,...
...but (if re-elected) as a means of manipulating the levers (and compliant fools) that will allow him to escape accountability for his innumerable dirty deeds.
And lastly, even though I'm pretty sure I understand why this is all taking place, I nevertheless still find it fascinating (though depressing) to watch someone as seemingly intelligent as you, to be so completely under the thrall of an obvious (yet powerful) delusion.
Come on now, ol' buddy, I'm just trying to get you to "level up" (as they say in gamer-speak) in an effort to help you escape the oppressive confines (and opaque outer film) of that ideological bubble you are trapped within.
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