• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]
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    4 days ago

    Well if Omar El-Akkad is an embarrassing child that shits his pants then I guess I’m one of those things too

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      4 days ago

      The argument from authority doesn’t make the point more or less valid.

      If anything, bringing the quote over out of context shows how chillingly unserious it is:

      Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.

      Well, where was the left? Where in the ballot was El-Akkad? Where were the righteousy outraged when something could have been done other than comfortable in their outrage and abdicating responsibility?

      Being on the right side of the argument and having no power to enact the right decision is equivalent to not being right at all. And yes, once all other possibilities are boiled down to two, you have to pick one. If you do not, then you picked the one that won.

      And that may not be the best way to do it, but until such time as Omar and you have successfully revolted and implemented a superior alternative, that’s how it works. And work it did. So not Palestine is seriously considered as a potential location for a strip mall and Nicolás Maduro is presumably sitting on some CIA dark site somewhere because holy crap, dumbest dystopia.

      Anyway, whatever. Not worth going back and forth on this. The blame adjudication is useless and, more to the point, entirely up to me. You can tell Omar I blame him, too, if he ever signs your moral justification pamphlet for fascism.

      • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]
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        4 days ago

        The argument from authority doesn’t make the point more or less valid.

        Nah I just think he says it way better than I can.