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In reply to the discussion: Leave Discussionist Alone. [View all]MrScorpio
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They're going to do it, one way or the other, whether you like what they say or not. However, none of that really does matter, because if the don't do it there, they'll do it elsewhere.
The key thing to understand about all of this is the fact that everyone thinks that they're entitled to an opinion. Which is part of the greatest hoax ever foisted on this country, which says that one's freedom of speech entitles one to have their own bullshit regarded as credible. So much crap goes on in this country, based on that very false premise.
If this were true, then all opinions would be consider equally valid, no matter who offered them and especially how ridiculous they are. We all know that everyone isn't entitled to their own opinion, but most of us let that shit slide anyway. Sometimes it's not worth the trouble.
With our winger friends, they've all taken up the notion that their fucked up opinions can be carried to illogical extremes. That basically means that this has allowed them to simultaneously live in the real world, while trying to impose their fucked up delusions on everyone else. The most ridiculous thing about that is the fact that their own delusions are ultimately self-destructive.
But due to their belief that they are entitled to their fucked opinions, none of that ever has to matter for them. That's why they resort to projection, deflection, transferrence and lies at the drop of a hat. They are extremely good at this, only because they are allowed to and have had plenty of practice at it in their own echo chamber.
And that's where The Discussionist comes in. Because that place is not an echo chamber, it's a crucible. A place, if applied with the proper due dilligence, to burn away the slag of fucked opinions and reveal the truths that lie underneath.
It's a place where they find that they're not automatically entitled to have an opinion. It's a place where those opinions are challenged and the are thereby forced to defend their opinions and verify their validity.
That's where the Leftys come in. To make those challenges and show them that they are not entitled to any opinion that doesn't stand up to rigorous scrutiny.
Is it mean? Perhaps. Is it cruel? It could be. Is it unfair? Not in the least. Does it work? Damn skippy.
What's going on over there is a vetting process. Under the right circumstances, the winger trolls will lose their shit and get canned right off the site. The worst of the worst gets their entire accounts revoked for creating other multiple accounts in order to spew more bullshit. All you have to do is understand what sets them off and why. What ever it is, it always works against them.
The rest of them see that shit as well as whatever bullshit that they can spew themselves, which isn't much. Regardless of their horrendously natural penchant for being both trolls and troll enablers, they really have a hard time dealing with reality, I've found. Unlike me, as i give them the what for with glee.
I don't have a problem going there, because I use the place to gauge my own opinions against theirs. I'm confident of what I'm saying and have no qualms about it with them.
I consider the place my own crucible, a place where I can forge my own understanding of my own environment into a weapon against them.