(((Not That Crown, Maybe)))

We seek to understand our opponents' motivations not merely out of charity, but because there is value in learning; because we might better understand how to argue them to our position or away from theirs; and because we are merely human, and iron sharpens iron.

It’s time to block this account. They manipulated the clip so that you don’t know he’s quoting someone and condemning the thoughts of the quote. This is dishonesty and it’s dishonesty geared towards stirring up peoples hatreds.

@AlbertsRobot Man, I just wanted to relive the thrill of running a party through the Demiplane of Dread, even if it was just in memories.

@CrownMaybe Honestly, I'm just finding new games to play. There's too many options out there now that I don't have to suffer through what DnD, MtG, and WoW have become.

I can't even toy with buying legal copies of beloved classics without having half-evolved lizard creatures in skinsuits lecturing me:

Y'know, the account of a very minor political party that wants to attract voters who otherwise tend to agree with it would be well-advised to actually watch the video before boldly and forthrightly offering non sequiturs.

@Ruffin_Shot @CarlLake867 @IzaBooboo @DocSupafly You're all my heroes today.

@CarlLake867 @IzaBooboo @DocSupafly It remains wrong. I heard enough of, “But that’s what it means now!” from my daughters. No. This is not Orwell’s 1984. Words mean things.

"You still think you can protect the formal definition of 'begs the question'? Because at 30(?) it's marginal, right?"

@MaupinMari76912 Pretty much.

@CrownMaybe Used book stores are like the only Safe Haven at this point

I see Mr. Pentin's account has been hacked.

@IzaBooboo Wait, cashews are good; and also, "there are no stupid questions" led to one of the greatest commercials of all time.

Things can fuck off to the other side of the universe, a partial list: "There are no stupid questions." The metric system Using "begs the question" as "raises the question." Cashews The Right Wing Griftosphere

@MABlumenfeld I meant small-o but this too

By that logic, orthodox Christianity is 10 times as true

Wait until you find out what shows on British national television

@Rainovertrees Now I miss the Simpsons for the first time in decades.

Whatever else may be said, he was attributing this quote/concept to Will Durant (whose line was about the universe and its fundamentally amoral nature but used Christ and Genghis Khan to make the point) to make a larger point.

@Rainovertrees Like I said, it's Realpolitik. Whatever else may be said of the man, it's been his lodestar for decades.

@CrownMaybe It's pretty classic Bibism. It's not enough to be righteous, you also have to be strong. x.com/IsraeliPM/stat…

The passage below states that Catholics are unamerican. Click on the piece, and you see it cites SPLC as a legitimate authority.

Interestingly, equating "the Jewish people" to "the state of Israel" leads to both disgusting antisemitism AND an inability to critique Israeli actions.

He is summarizing an argument/quote made by Will Durant in “The Lessons of History” about the brutality of life on earth and the need to confront evil. Agree with that sentiment or not, he’s not making the claim being quoted. C’mon, folks.

@presjpolk I forget how good your longer form stuff is.

It's a trend. He used to talk about the Military-Industrial Complex and how the sheer amount of money it makes creates all sorts of dangerous incentives. He'd talk a lot about Ukraine, because I'm pretty sure that's what led to his firing from Fox. He'd bring Macgregor on, bring Sachs on, talk about Ukrainian Nazis at the Canadian Parliament, ask about why the heck we had biolabs in Ukraine, etc. But at some point his "I will talk about the things I'm not allowed to talk about" rebel streak kicked in about AIPAC. And the more politicians like Ted Cruz bellowed when he'd point out the frankly ludicrous things politicians would say at AIPAC conferences, it caused him to get dug in. But the pivot really kicked in with Gaza. Tucker had a spiritual awakening in recent years, going from an effectively secular Christian with familial ties to a mainline protestant church, to being a sort of self-taught Bible-based Christian. The same stuff you also see from Russell Brand ("So a protestant then," I'm sure you're thinking) While Tucker was always a sort of NAP libertarian anti-interventionist guy on foreign policy (though pro-life so not a standard Libertarian), this new thinking in him has caused him to become a major pacifist. If military action in any way risks hitting civilians, to him it's just evil, no matter what. And so to him, the Gaza operations conducted by the IDF were deeply, deeply immoral and un-Christian. I don't think he believes in the concept of a Just War at all. And so it really, really offends him that the US would be giving 6 billion a year of military aid to the IDF to be doing this, in a way that he perceives as in our name. So now he's convinced that the reason the US keeps doing these things is that people are being manipulated into violating Christian values by a foreign power. Christian Zionism deeply baffles him, as witnessed by the interview with Mike Huckabee where the two completely talked past each other. So now he's left trying to reconcile Trump as the courageous hero who took a bullet to the head to save America, with his mental model of US policy with Israel, and he's in limbo right now.

I personally have serious doubts about Tucker's theories that Trump is somehow being tricked or blackmailed.

KING