I was gonna say "da fuq?! This a deli tank?! They just hanging sausages on the mufuggers now and selling meats to get by?!"
GuidoMancipioni
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Bro the VC were losing by a MASSIVE margin. The only reason the US left was because they lost the war for public opinion. The VC were entirely spent, much like your brain cells.
Oh delightful.. I'm down voted for a reasoned and valid contribution to the conversation. AGAIN. How much I love Lemmy... The best part of Reddiquette was always the insistence on downvotes not being a "disagree" button. Do better, Lemmings, or the conversation here will suck when nobody wants to comment on anything anymore.
.... ANYWAY...
I don't know that I can agree with the part about being a MAGA sympathizer. His constant discussion of acceptance, understanding, and love all make me say that. I've never heard him espouse authorization leanings and I think it tends to be more related to him having a tendency to avoid confrontation and try to keep things from greeting adversarial. That being said, I feel like it's often allowed him to become a useful idiot for people like Kushner and Stone. You're right about the questions he tends to ask, and I was actually impressed with the pushback against Sam. I personally attributed it to him having a more comfortable relationship with Sam. The issue I see as more problematic is that he is far too often willing to push back on a stance, but not on obvious falsehoods.
I feel like Lex tends to sit in the "Enlightened Centrist" bucket more than he sits in the MAGA bucket. In an effort to better understand subjects and maintain an open perspective he often is too willing to accept the things people say on his show, and fails to push back at all and instead allowing them to speak to reveal their "truth"; even when that truth may be a total lie, as in previous Elon Interviews or the one he did with Oliver Stone.
He has a definite naievity to him, as he readily admits he's often willing to assume the best of a scenario in spite of what others what probably call the foolishness of doing so
How do you figure? As far as I can tell, that conversation happens all the damn time. Not among anyone who SHOULD be having it, but I hear it happen all the time regardless. But you knew that... Same as you knew that there's an abundance of evidence to prove your sarcasm is seriously unfounded because there's PLENTY of evidence of both of those things being a thing. I'm beginning to believe that some people are intentionally creating straw man arguments and being deliberately hyperbolic while presenting their arguments as rational and balanced. Weird.
You can have my upvote, but I'm not happy about it
It's a different person, dude
And there is exactly where a libertarian's entire argument falls apart. Rational people obviously know such words are idealistic and hyperbolic, and would ostensibly craft laws to balance personal liberties and public safety. The thing is, there's a cold truth behind it that is important not to forget or ignore. It hints at the slippery slope of regulation into oppression, and that's a very real danger to us today as much as it was back then.
What the actual fuck?!