MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 31
st, 2025 at 3:48pm:
KangAnon wrote on Jan 31
st, 2025 at 10:46am:
It’s genuinely astonishing that the two of you can’t bring yourselves to acknowledge what’s plainly visible. The physical action Musk performed was, in movement and energy, indistinguishable from a Nazi salute.
End of story.
But you can't even bring yourselves to admit that...
We’ve already agreed it’s unlikely he intended it as such, yet even this basic concession, a mere observation of what you can see with your own eyes, is beyond your capacity.
Instead, you default to excuses, false equivalencies, and dismissals, even as Musk’s follow-up was to lean into Nazi humour. It’s emblematic of a broader phenomenon: a willful denial of reality in service of a narrative that must never challenge the sanctity of your chosen figurehead.
This discussion is pointless. It’s not just intellectual dishonesty on display here, it’s a kind of ideological servitude, where you reject the evidence before you and substitute it with convenient fictions to preserve your rhetorical alignment with the whims of your dear leader.
It’s more than sad, it’s pitiable.
Squeezing out all the English you were ever taught in 1962 in one big turd, then...
Actually, I’m a Xennial, I just happen to enjoy reading, playing with language, and not shying away from big words. I understand how that might rattle someone like you, to the point where you cling to the crutch of dismissing me as some irrelevant “old codger.”
It’s fine, you’re not the first to feel out of your depth around someone more articulate and intelligent. It’s a predictable response, really.
It’s a pattern I’ve seen often, especially when I make cogent, thoughtful, and articulate points that leave the feeble-minded like you with nowhere else to go. So, instead of engaging meaningfully, you flail around and make it personal to avoid having to respond with any sort of substance or address the claims, points and questions put to you, that you don't have or like the answers to.
That’s how desperate you are to "win," clinging to your pride rather than entertaining the possibility of learning something or, heaven forbid, changing your perspective.
After all, isn’t that the point of engaging in discussion? Or is intellectual growth just too much to ask?