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You know there is, you just don't like the point. To put it in terms you might get, if someone presented me with a news story by ISIS, and said it was from an "independent foreign political organization," I'd be suspicious about the agenda of the person presenting that story.
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So this is all about my calling that clown "indie media." Hell, I'll apologize for that. He's not media. He's a nut. But he did have a scoop. That's my sole reason for the cite.
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I did not say I was suspicious of Bloomberg. In fact, my actual point had nothing to do with the merits of the Susan Rice story, which is why I said, "my actual point had nothing to do with the merits of the Susan Rice story." You should know. You quoted me saying that in the very post I'm responding to.
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Really? Too dry? For you?
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I am pretty aware of the relatively low risk of saying outrageous things just to say outrageous things on an anonymous online chatting board that nobody reads. I'll remind you that the phrase most usually associated with me here is "unsolicited, no-strings-attached fellatio." But if you really "fully expect" that your willingness to say blatantly untrue things and mischaracterize people's arguments will result in people dismissing your arguments as bullshit, why do you always act so surprised, angry, and hurt when it happens?
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I don't like dumb. This will sound high-handed, but I often find this place, and my conservative friends, highly annoying. You're not looking long or broadly enough. You're probably not even reading people who disagree with you much. I think you should. I think the right should as well. Conservatives should be locked in rooms with Jeffrey Sachs and Robert Reich, and your sort should be locked in a room with a copy of
Mobs, Messiahs and Markets, Tyler Cowen, and Jaron Lanier.
Adder should be force-fed Nassim Taleb, Reich, and Cowen until the rotten crap his dad's money manager and the shmuck who taught him Econ 101 in college bleeds out of his ears.
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You should destabilize your thinking constantly. Elsewhere, I just agreed with someone - an ardent Republican - there will be no course for health care but single payer. The only question was whether it's an insurance consortium or the govt. I think the latter.
Truly, no fucks given. Except when I think... you're not. Then I find myself a mix of sad and irritated.
Nothing lets me down like tribes. Reminds me of religion. I hate it. And if I smell it, by extension, I detest the speaker of it.