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Started by BjornTipling · 1 year ago

For a while now, I have been following political blogs. I am left of center ideologically but I like to read different points of view. I am especially interested in conservative blogs. I find that I already agree with many of the things that are said in liberal blogs, and it feels a little […] ... Continue reading »

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  • BjornTipling

    1 year ago

    Testing new disqus blog comment thingy.
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  • Your Mother

    1 year ago

    Have you ever heard the saying, "Arguing on the Internet is like competing in the Special Olympics?"

    http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png
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  • BjornTipling

    1 year ago

    Yeah except these blogs aren't just anybody. They're widely read enough to make it to the top of popular memetrackers. Which means a lot of people believe this nonesense and I think it's worth arguing against.

    Just because a point is made on the internet, doesn't mean it's not worth arguing. That's a stupid argument.
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  • Your Mother

    1 year ago

    Millions of points are made on the internet every day, and millions of those points are rebutted and counter-rebutted. Waste as much time as you like observing your arguments disappearing like a noodle into the world's largest Cup-O-Soup. If changing opinions were as easy as correcting logical errors, there would be no political parties and we would all be of one mind. People and their visceral feelings are not program code - they can't be logically debugged like a for loop.
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  • BjornTipling

    1 year ago

    What exactly is your motivation here? Hehe.
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