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- Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:38 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: That Harpers Open Letter
- Replies: 216
- Views: 7337
Re: That Harpers Open Letter
It occurs to me that Bari Weiss is very similar to Dr. Peterson. She says something stupid or offensive based on sloppy thinking or research, receives criticism for it, then responds to that criticism by highlighting the worst examples (in some cases exaggerating or misrepresenting them) to paint he...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 5:28 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: That Harpers Open Letter
- Replies: 216
- Views: 7337
Re: That Harpers Open Letter
Seems like if you are a decent writer and have the right connections, you can build a whole career on writing bad opinions, then writing about the illiberalism of people for criticizing your bad opinions, then write about the illiberalism of the people for criticizing your bad argument about illiber...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 5:05 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: That Harpers Open Letter
- Replies: 216
- Views: 7337
Re: That Harpers Open Letter
Now that Thomas Chatteron Williams has completed a speed-run on embarrassing himself on the Internet in defense of Bari Weiss, it certainly seems likely that was more central to the original writing, if not the interpretation of others. In other news, Bari Weiss has voluntarily resigned from the NYT...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:40 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Holy Cow - Senator Graham on Trump
- Replies: 7
- Views: 328
Re: Holy Cow - Senator Graham on Trump
What with Trump openly talking about blackmailing a US Senator on live TV, that ups the power rankings of "Graham is being blackmailed because there's video of him with an underage rent boy or something" theory a little.
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 3:53 am
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Vietnam has zero coronavirus deaths
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2269
Re: Vietnam has zero coronavirus deaths
Oh. Ok. Sounds like the disease is no big deal then.ajax18 wrote:
I don't know anyone who has gotten Covid and gotten any more sick than having the flu.
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:39 am
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Vietnam has zero coronavirus deaths
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2269
Re: Vietnam has zero coronavirus deaths
The countries that have better economic prospects right now are the ones that engaged in the policies you think are the road to economic devastation while the US continues to face very difficult economic circumstances as the pandemic continues to rage on and paralyze economic activity. It's not just...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:30 am
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: That Harpers Open Letter
- Replies: 216
- Views: 7337
Re: That Harpers Open Letter
When you read Moby Dick, do you think, "clam chowder represents my discontent with Twitter?"honorentheos wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:09 amYou sure like having your hand held for a libertarian. Telling.
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:48 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: That Harpers Open Letter
- Replies: 216
- Views: 7337
Re: That Harpers Open Letter
If that's not a reference to David Shor, and it most likely is, then David Shor is exactly the sort of situation that people are apt to think of when they read that line.a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:31 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: That Harpers Open Letter
- Replies: 216
- Views: 7337
Re: That Harpers Open Letter
Your commitment to this deflection is noted Deflection? You sound like Robspierre, with your absolutely certainty of who is right and wrong and who's cancellation we should care about and not. First you come for Blake Neff, then invetiably you're coming for grandma and apple pie. , though it seems ...
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:04 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Vietnam has zero coronavirus deaths
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2269
Re: Vietnam has zero coronavirus deaths
No, I was not convinced I was going to die. I probably had COVID, but there's no way to know, so I have to act as though I haven't. Did it leave you disabled? How much worse was it for you than a bad flu? Bad flu. Might have some lingering breathing issues that seem better and worse depending on th...