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I didn't even know about that; I checked his Twitter, and first thing is a reply to the Baltimore bridge collapse:

> Doors and wheels fall off airplanes. Hundreds of illegal immigrants assault and overrun border guards in Texas. We can’t even muster support for our allies in the security council. But at least our pronouns are in order.

https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/177262869295654553...

You really need to be a special sort of individual to go from a collapsed bridge to ranting about pronouns with no prompting or any prior mention of that. What a complete spanner.

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That happened to esr, too, although he derailed right after 9/11, and it's been downhill ever since.

From the other side, people like me, see your odd dismissive behaviour in the same light. This bridge and hundreds of other things going wrong throughout the world atm are all symptoms of some sort of rotten problem, and I honestly don't know why you guys are so adamant about dismissing it. Almost as if you want to see it all come crashing down.

Pure evil, as Trump would call it.

Yes, a single accident of the type that's been happing sine bridges were invented, pronouns, and unconditional support for an out of control government in Israel are all deeply related...

Or he's a hyper-politicized idiot completely consumed and obsessed by some topics and needs to talk about them all the fucking time at the drop of a hat, whether appropriate or not.

It has nothing to do with "sides"; it has to do with the forceful injection of completely unrelated matters.

Is the rate of these incidents increasing, decreasing, or about the same?

Obviously you can say I'm biased but I think they're increasing.

>of some sort of rotten problem

Agree. Out of control neo-feudal lords taking up all the slack out of every system they can get their tendrils into in the name of efficiency, thus endangering us all in order to extract as much profit as possible out of our entire economic system.

The "other side"'s solution tends to be to further deregulate industry and the economy, and to empower and lower the tax burden of these neo-feudal lords, all while pointing at gays, trans-folk, and immigrants as if they are the reason people can't afford rent and bridges are falling down.

Another man opens the morning newspaper, and after scanning the headline, declares: "Honey, this planet is going to hell".

>From the other side, people like me, see your odd dismissive behaviour in the same light. This bridge and hundreds of other things going wrong throughout the world atm are all symptoms of some sort of rotten problem

Just one problem, huh?

This illustrates what I meant about black and white thinking.

Not sure what angle you're going with. If you want to say there that there is more than one rotten problem at the core of society, go for it. I'd be the first to agree with you.

This is not black and white reasoning. Each problem can be on a continuous plane, from "slightly bothersome" to "there is an absolutely horrible evil lurking here".

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