I don't do the Twitter thing, so you're a much braver man than I for wading in. I'm sure there are some who look at Twitter as another way of engaging other people, but as near as I can tell, it's just one more way for people to talk past one another.
There is no power on earth which can make me look up what kind of "quiet peacemaking" David French was crediting Ben Carson with, but I can speculate. Was he talking a meth-addled Nazi down from his plan to shoot up a black church by pleading that the folks there weren't his real enemy, that he could find black friends like James David Manning and Jesse Lee Petersen and himself who could help him fight the real enemies: the Muslims and homos?
Glad you’re taking a step back from Hardcore for your own mental health, Roy. No sane person should have to spend time, virtual or otherwise, with the shrieking Grandpa Shakes Fist At Cloud population. I really believe the recipients of those tripe newsletters are people who used to buy the National Enquirer at the supermarket but are now homebound and their caregivers refuse to get it for them anymore.
Regarding the latest Uncle Joe fiasco, we know Biden gets a lot of goodwill from many moderate white Democrats for being a familiar, affable old white guy who will right the ship without shaking things up too much. He gets a lot of goodwill from many black Democrats for having been Obama’s Veep. But that can and hopefully will change the more he opens his mouth and people are reminded that Biden is, well, Biden. The only thing more on-brand than the aviator sunglasses and the handsiness are the gaffes. He’s quite capable of shooting himself in the foot, multiple times, during the course of a lengthy pre-primary season.
I mean, I get the political strategy behind “Sure, I’ll work with my buddies across the aisle, wouldn’t you folks like some peace and quiet in Washington for a change (wink, wink, I know I can’t really work with them).” But by literally campaigning like a candidate from the last century for whom the last 30 years didn’t happen, it feels more and more like he’s getting high on his own supply and it’s actually pretty unsettling.
On French, I got smacked down on Twitter for saying something to the effect of wondering whether his compassion for the martyrdom of a kid who offended the Harvard admissions committee and may be forced to attend a state school is matched by his compassion for kids who get murdered by cops--he's actually written quite a bit in the past year or so from your Good Conservative standpoint on the need for cops to learn to restrain themselves, showing a recognition that the victims are human beings, so I wanted to note that. Not changing my mind about his work in general.
Boot didn't think the price of invading Iraq was too high, but health care, education and parental leave? ¡Están carísimo! It's always about not spreading the wealth. Shoveling it to Raytheon, good, more for Headstart, bad.
Thinking like the people who accept the nuttery you glean as Gospel Truth _hurts_. I have a hard time reading too many of these collections, so I'm easily convinced that you need a break assembling them.
On the other hand, I'll admit that stupidity shown by people I oppose is actually reässuring, but that pleasure is a stupid one, and could leave me unequpped to deal with smarter opposition.
David French should be tonsured, forced to don a monk's cowl, sent to a monastery on a remote Greek island, and there kept under a vow of perpetual silence. (I've been reading Byzantine history lately.)
I sometimes post comments on the hardcore stories and sites. Some of the responses from the older men are kind of moving once you get past the immediate hateful stuff. They are convinced that every media outlet is deliberately lying to them at all times and they feel entirely lost.
I might talk about going to the Christmas party at the local mosque (imam: in know it's a Christian holiday kids, but me and the man in red are close) or how much less crime there is now than 40 years ago: the population now is more peaceful than people back then. It works a bit sometimes, maybe for just that moment but maybe it helps.
A day late and a dollar short as usual I’m here to say I like this series concept and support your desisting with the hardcore series. Those things are incoherent and demented themselves - never makes me their drooling audience - and the whole thing is too depressing for words.
I don't do the Twitter thing, so you're a much braver man than I for wading in. I'm sure there are some who look at Twitter as another way of engaging other people, but as near as I can tell, it's just one more way for people to talk past one another.
Keep up the good fight, Roy!
There is no power on earth which can make me look up what kind of "quiet peacemaking" David French was crediting Ben Carson with, but I can speculate. Was he talking a meth-addled Nazi down from his plan to shoot up a black church by pleading that the folks there weren't his real enemy, that he could find black friends like James David Manning and Jesse Lee Petersen and himself who could help him fight the real enemies: the Muslims and homos?
Hear hear! (Truly, “Roy wades through the fever swamps so we don’t have to” has GOT to take a toll.)
Glad you’re taking a step back from Hardcore for your own mental health, Roy. No sane person should have to spend time, virtual or otherwise, with the shrieking Grandpa Shakes Fist At Cloud population. I really believe the recipients of those tripe newsletters are people who used to buy the National Enquirer at the supermarket but are now homebound and their caregivers refuse to get it for them anymore.
Regarding the latest Uncle Joe fiasco, we know Biden gets a lot of goodwill from many moderate white Democrats for being a familiar, affable old white guy who will right the ship without shaking things up too much. He gets a lot of goodwill from many black Democrats for having been Obama’s Veep. But that can and hopefully will change the more he opens his mouth and people are reminded that Biden is, well, Biden. The only thing more on-brand than the aviator sunglasses and the handsiness are the gaffes. He’s quite capable of shooting himself in the foot, multiple times, during the course of a lengthy pre-primary season.
I mean, I get the political strategy behind “Sure, I’ll work with my buddies across the aisle, wouldn’t you folks like some peace and quiet in Washington for a change (wink, wink, I know I can’t really work with them).” But by literally campaigning like a candidate from the last century for whom the last 30 years didn’t happen, it feels more and more like he’s getting high on his own supply and it’s actually pretty unsettling.
On French, I got smacked down on Twitter for saying something to the effect of wondering whether his compassion for the martyrdom of a kid who offended the Harvard admissions committee and may be forced to attend a state school is matched by his compassion for kids who get murdered by cops--he's actually written quite a bit in the past year or so from your Good Conservative standpoint on the need for cops to learn to restrain themselves, showing a recognition that the victims are human beings, so I wanted to note that. Not changing my mind about his work in general.
Boot didn't think the price of invading Iraq was too high, but health care, education and parental leave? ¡Están carísimo! It's always about not spreading the wealth. Shoveling it to Raytheon, good, more for Headstart, bad.
Sometimes I wish Joe would just shut the f@#$ up.
Thinking like the people who accept the nuttery you glean as Gospel Truth _hurts_. I have a hard time reading too many of these collections, so I'm easily convinced that you need a break assembling them.
On the other hand, I'll admit that stupidity shown by people I oppose is actually reässuring, but that pleasure is a stupid one, and could leave me unequpped to deal with smarter opposition.
David French should be tonsured, forced to don a monk's cowl, sent to a monastery on a remote Greek island, and there kept under a vow of perpetual silence. (I've been reading Byzantine history lately.)
I sometimes post comments on the hardcore stories and sites. Some of the responses from the older men are kind of moving once you get past the immediate hateful stuff. They are convinced that every media outlet is deliberately lying to them at all times and they feel entirely lost.
I might talk about going to the Christmas party at the local mosque (imam: in know it's a Christian holiday kids, but me and the man in red are close) or how much less crime there is now than 40 years ago: the population now is more peaceful than people back then. It works a bit sometimes, maybe for just that moment but maybe it helps.
A day late and a dollar short as usual I’m here to say I like this series concept and support your desisting with the hardcore series. Those things are incoherent and demented themselves - never makes me their drooling audience - and the whole thing is too depressing for words.