Interesting Short Story

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_Imwashingmypirate
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Re: Interesting Short Story

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I read about a sentence and got extremely bored, even though it did strike me to be a bit piratey. Kinda seems a bit random as a first post. Almost like you are trying to tell someone something in not so many words. Well in a lot of words actually.
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Re: Interesting Short Story

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Blixa wrote:
No kidding, but you'll never understand their limits if you can't grasp what they are to begin with. And anyone using such simplistic representations of multiple (and overlapping!) positions of subordination/discrimination/oppression has already lost the argument he's presumably trying to make.

But that's why some one like Anders Behring Breivik was plagiarizing Kaczynski (as well as nutjobs like Bill Lind).


Agree. I put this down to Kaczynski's awkwardness with both ideas and language. I'm also not convinced his own ideology was fully formed.
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Re: Interesting Short Story

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Blixa wrote:No kidding, but you'll never understand their limits if you can't grasp what they are to begin with. And anyone using such simplistic representations of multiple (and overlapping!) positions of subordination/discrimination/oppression has already lost the argument he's presumably trying to make.

But that's why some one like Anders Behring Breivik was plagiarizing Kaczynski (as well as nutjobs like Bill Lind).


Violent radicals of this kind oversimplify and seek shortcuts as a matter of mental habit.
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Re: Interesting Short Story

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Kishkumen wrote:
Blixa wrote:No kidding, but you'll never understand their limits if you can't grasp what they are to begin with. And anyone using such simplistic representations of multiple (and overlapping!) positions of subordination/discrimination/oppression has already lost the argument he's presumably trying to make.

But that's why some one like Anders Behring Breivik was plagiarizing Kaczynski (as well as nutjobs like Bill Lind).


Violent radicals of this kind oversimplify and seek shortcuts as a matter of mental habit.


You will get no argument from me there.
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