Do you think I’m getting a dig at my political enemies just because I can? I mean, I’m fairly open about being pro-immigration… but this is a story where the two characters repeat actual arguments I’ve watched happen on Discord, neither character ‘wins’ the argument, the essay takes no stance on whether Charlie or Bob gets vindicated other than to say that they’re both worse off than if they had talked about something more productive, and my actual point has nothing to do with immigration.
I believe I possess adequate skill to say “this is a disruptive political jab” when an essay author makes disruptive political jabs, and to instead engage with the author’s actual point when the author is making an actual unrelated point using a helpful political example. If you don’t, then… skill issue? That’s no reason to inflict such a counterproductive rule on the rest of us.
Do you think I’m getting a dig at my political enemies just because I can?
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Furthermore, since it is difficult to make a rule which allows only disruptive political asides to be rebutted, we should instead let all political asides be rebutted.
Saying “you can respond to political jabs, but only jabs” is unworkable.
Do you think I’m getting a dig at my political enemies just because I can? I mean, I’m fairly open about being pro-immigration… but this is a story where the two characters repeat actual arguments I’ve watched happen on Discord, neither character ‘wins’ the argument, the essay takes no stance on whether Charlie or Bob gets vindicated other than to say that they’re both worse off than if they had talked about something more productive, and my actual point has nothing to do with immigration.
I believe I possess adequate skill to say “this is a disruptive political jab” when an essay author makes disruptive political jabs, and to instead engage with the author’s actual point when the author is making an actual unrelated point using a helpful political example. If you don’t, then… skill issue? That’s no reason to inflict such a counterproductive rule on the rest of us.
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Saying “you can respond to political jabs, but only jabs” is unworkable.