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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 17:52:42 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 08:26:56 -0800, john larkin wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 11:09:12 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>>On 1/5/2025 11:01 AM, john larkin wrote:
>>
>>>> Deplorable is is deplorable does, man. What am I supposed to tell
>>>> people who think violent crime "is way up" when it's been going down
>>>> for 50 years and that children are regularly getting sex changes, or
>>>> whatever nonsense some significant fraction of citizens choose to
>>>> believe today. "Yeah, you're right?"
>>>>
>>>> Plenty of very well-to-do people seem to believe the same nonsense,
>>>> so it's not really a class-thing.
>>> 
>>> You invent people as targets for your need for contempt. You would
>>> have been an ardent Nazi in the 1930's Germany. Tribal.
>>> 
>>> 
>>'Fraid people who believe nonsense of the type I mentioned are not at
>>all "invented", if you don't personally know any or have never met any
>>maybe it's cuz you live in one of the most leftist places on Earth? ???
> 
> Humans are incredibly diverse.  You blame and mock (and imagine) people
> who have different opinions than yours.
> 
> I think this intolerant diversity is evolved, naturally selected, as a
> tribal survival mechanism. Probably your intolerance is genetic,
> inherited; you can't help yourself.
> 
> This tribal tendency for intolerance is why we have wars.
> 
> You are emotionally driven to believe that you are always right. That
> attitude, emotionally selective blindness and hostility to ideas, is
> toxic to electronic design. I guess that's why so few people are good at
> it.

Well, to be fair, unlike Bill Sloman, Bitrex at least *attempts* to put 
together some form of rational argument - even if it doesn't stand up to 
scrutiny (very few Leftist arguments stand scrutiny, so that's no 
reflection on him, he just has crap ideology to work with and you can't 
make a silk purse out of a pig's ear).