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Cake day: December 11th, 2023

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  • “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. 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







  • No, you complained about me reporting it at all. If your were just complaining about unequal moderation, you would have taken it up with the moderator, who I have no control of, you would not have accused me of “trying to shut down discussion when I started to lose” or whatever.

    As I said: sometimes having views and opinions vehemently challenged is fine

    Great, I agree; but are you actually willing to grant that right to people who disagree with you, because it doesn’t seem like it.

    and sometimes it’s enlightening how little pushback some assholes can take.

    Mmmm, it sure fucking is.