re: Argument shifts of the left

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The problem I see is that you seem to assume that anyone defending him on anything falls into this camp. It's sort of a self-fulfilling view

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Maybe. But the posters toward whom I am most-hostile are uniformly the type of posters who start threads about getting on their knees at bedtime to thank God and Baby Jesus for sending us Donald J. Trump.

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I like to pat myself on the back here and there, but I feel relatively confident we've had a cross word or two.

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We have certainly disagreed, but I do not recall either of us ever being rude about it.

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you bend over backwards to be contrarian on anything Trump-related

Someone has to do it

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No. No one "has to do it." That's as silly as the folks on here who think Trump walks on water.

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I give Trump props on something or agree with something he is doing.

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Yes, at a MUCH lower rate than someone who contends libertarians agree with the right as much as they disagree. That's what I'm saying. You've regularly been busting out inane drivel like "trumpettes" for crying out loud. Come off it.

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I certainly agree that I am hostile to those who seem to think that the man can do no wrong

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I'm hardly in that camp, but you are hostile to Trump supporters across the board as a rule, not an exception.

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Blind sycophancy annoys me as much among GOP voters as among Dems (who were just as bad about Obama).

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On this we most certainly agree.

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I find it highly entertaining to see that the posters who deride blind adherence to Dem dogma are UNIFORMLY the worst about blind adherence to "conservative" dogma.

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I have no problem with calling out hypocrisy on both sides of the aisle in that regard. I'm calling you out for yours as well, though, sir.

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This is always entertaining to me

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Yes, I'm sure it's great sport. We're all just blowing hot air on here at the end of the day. But you're a bit of a charlatan when it comes to the "I'm just a right of center libertarian" guy, and people see through that as easily as you see through the dogma-dedicated on the right and the left.

You keep doing you, though. No skin off my nose either way

The dude made a completely valid observation of a popular and effective narrative management tactic of the left. He used the example of trans-rights, which may very well be the looniest position of the modern SJW - a position most libertarians make fun of more than conservatives do.

And you ran here like a moth to a flame to remind us that "both sides do this", which is the level 1 excuse for the left's assholery. Notice you are the only "libertarian" here scolding the OP for daring to criticize the left.

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The dude made a completely valid observation of a popular and effective narrative management tactic of the left.

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But that is not what he did

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A lesson that hardly anyone on the right ever seems to learn is is how the left operates and frames arguments. The second they achieve any stated goal they instantly move the goal line and begin the struggle anew.

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implicit in those two sentences is the assumption that only “the left“ engages in such behavior… A proposition which is entirely false.

I called out his hypocrisy. Perhaps I did so and more strident terms that I would’ve done with a poster who is not routinely rude to me, but I did nothing other than what is previously been discussed in the last few posts

you gentlemen have given me some things to think about, and I do think that I will try to be somewhat less… confrontational … In my writing style. But I am cofident that it will not be reciprocated.