Help me out here, Hacker News. This guy thinks: "Democrats attacked the capital", is an opinion.
How do we even talk to this person?
Help me out here, Hacker News. This guy thinks: "Democrats attacked the capital", is an opinion.
How do we even talk to this person?
"They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
[1] The Alt-Right Playbook: Control the Conversation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaPgDQkmqqM
We saw last Wednesday that it's no longer safe to ignore them.
We're fully post-fact now, and it's not just Republicans playing this game.
That is an opinion.
Either he has it or he doesn't.
The problem is many people act like evidence doesn't exist - just like with voter fraud.
Adults can talk to each other and listen ideas and make up their own mind without Daddy Tech deciding for them what's right or wrong. It's called personal responsibility and it's theoretically the corner stone of western society.
When "bad" ideas are removed from the public eye... they grow underground. The way to fight them is to make them public where truth will prevail.