This month's announcement from Liberal High Command of the new regulations will be of special interest to Liberal podcasters and bloggers:
Henceforth it shall be considered a Class Three Code of Conduct violation to perform Steel Man or Steel Man-adjacent* "debates" in public.
A "Steel Man" argument is defined as taking an ordinary, stupid, easily-debunked Conservative talking point and saying, "Well, OK, but if my opponent were 100 times smarter and not a liar and a lunatic and a bigot, here's the argument they would have made." then debating that. This absurd ritual is performed because you're so keen to show everyone how smart and civil and according to Hoyle you are by debating a sane Conservative that you invent one (known in the trade as "Sorkening".) Except that species went extinct a long time ago, so there you are, playing chess in the park against yourself.
What you do in the privacy of your own home is, of course, your own business. If your kink is "Steel Manning" Ayn Rand or Nick Fuentes behind closed doors, have at it.
But when you put it out on the street, it becomes public ontological masturbation.
Stop it.
*(Steel Man-adjacent debates can be identified by the use of phrases like "To be fair..." and "The most generous interpretation..." and "Even if we grant the premise...")
5 comments:
contrast this with the Steele Man argument where you pretend you didn’t take dumpsterfuls of RNC money to argue in similar fashion.
What about the Stealing Man argument, where trump and his minions set up a slush fund to stuff their own pockets for the next insurrection?
Do not dismiss the Steeling man's ability to have pallets of Gold bars brought into the White House for Goldfinger to stroke to and then accidently leaving his "stuff" like news clipping and socks in with the gold bars so he can take the pallets of gold bars to MAGA Laardo and store it until he is able to find time to sort his "stuff" out.
Got tp give a shout out to Hawaii's state legislature's aggressive stride to retake control of the incorporating laws to return power to the people of the state regarding "Citizens United".
Sure there will be law suits funded by corporations who want to own people. The people that initially wrote into law to allow corporations to exist in the first place.
I call it the Frankenstein act.
How to light the fire under other states to follow suit and now.
"ontological masturbation"
To be fair (See what I did there?) some still imagine it as intellectual intercourse.
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