Tyler wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 12:02 pm
moda0306 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 11:18 am
My trying to bleed any valid critical analysis out of Trumpists is the most fruitless efforts I've ever experienced.
If you're struggling that badly, maybe try a different approach. Clearly what you're doing now is not working and is making you unhappy.
moda,
Perhaps being respectful in your language would be a good start, maybe also being respectful of those you disagree with, even if it is President Trump. Be respectful of the office of the President if nothing else. Sugar catches more flies than vinegar.
Best wishes.
For example, these are inflamatory words in the context of your post (my opinion) - bolded text:
I agree that a forum is a sum of its contributors. My trying to
bleed any
valid critical analysis out of Trumpists is the most
fruitless efforts I've ever experienced. I know intelligent, intriguing leftists, libertarians, anarchists, monarchists, and conservatives. But almost all the Trump apologism here
wreaks of some mix of
knuckle-dragging idiocy,
tribalism and
groupthink. I'll "be the change I want to see" by calling out bad reasoning/sourcing where it lies, rather than put up with constant
gas-lighting attempts using Scott Adams, Breitbart and Prager-U as sources.
And there's nothing contradictory about saying that conversations used to be intelligent here and engaging in pointed assessments of where we are at. If you want to call out inconsistency, look no further than the
orange clown with his finger on the button.
The idea that anyone could look at the
greasy clown show that is US federal politics and claim that only the Dems, in an era of that
shit show in the white house, are materially part of the problem, is absolutely
ludicrous.
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no help. Psalm 146:3