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Frustrating that when you say some citizens are living in a constructed reality you get called political, right? As if that wasn't a demonstrable fact. Everything is political now by design. Politics is inherently opinionated. Lumping facts and reality into it allows those that can't barter in the currency of intellect a means to participate in those markets. Your silver coin is now comparable to their lump of dung.
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I'm reminded of a certain Isaac Asimov quote. 
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I hope you don't mean to say that people who disagree with you politically are unable to "barter in the currency of intellect," but unfortunately that's what you said.
Superior much?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Except that's not what I said at all. What I said was that politics is being used to equate fundamentally non-equatable positions. That it blurs the line between what is valuable and what is worthless.
If I walked into your office and said "everyone deflagilate the multi-tonal helicoid multiplexer" you'd all dismiss me as an idiot - for good reason! That statement has no value (or meaning). But what if I'm the boss or similar? Now office politics are involved. You may end up doing the same but the simple fact that politics are now involved will cause some consideration that was not previously given. It has legitimized, however slightly, my worthless statement. Now consider the same situation on a national scale. With worthless statements given intrinsic value purely because of politics. With millions of people incrementally legitimizing those statements. A constructed reality of worthless ideas.
There is nothing stopping differing positions from both having value. But value is derived from some foundation of truth. For example, would you fund research into whether the Earth is flat? No? Why? Because that position has no truth behind it. It has no value.
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Ha, at least one of the mentioned country   
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
Chemists have exactly one rule: there are only exceptions
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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honey the codewitch wrote: in my best American idiot voice
You mean there's another American voice?*
* I'm clearly joking, don't get offended... I know fully well there's also the hysterical Karen American voice.
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I'd like to speak to the manager.
*calls the cops*
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Employee: "Ma'am, I need you to calm down, this is just standard practice..."
You: "I need to speak to your manager!"
Manager: "What seems to be the problem, ma'am?"
You: "This man tells me I can't traverse a B-Tree starting from the rightmost child and now I feel violated in my rights!"
Also you: "And I refuse to use curly braces around my single-line if-statements as it's my right to do so!"
Manager: *Gets a huge magnet*
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Bwahahahaha you're terrible.
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You know, Sander I was thinking it would be cool sometime to do collab articles with regulars around here. You and I could do one where I write something cool, and you add a bunch of curly braces and arbitrary design patterns to it to make it slow.
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Funniest post I'll read this week
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COVID and the gov't and the conspiracy theories and the lies and posturing got you down?
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Could be. But there are plenty of mass delusions to choose from. I hesitate to make a social post into a political one but the two are very much related.
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social is always political.
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I'd argue that politics is a distillation of the social.
Is for example "treat others the way you want to be treated" political commentary?
You might argue it is. I could see it actually, but I don't think Chris would for the purposes of the forum.
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"Do unto others before they can do it unto you"
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I see them as polar opposites. The social sphere operates by consent, whereas the political sphere operates by coercion.
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honey the codewitch wrote: But there are plenty of mass delusions to choose from.
Sure are. And social media is making it worse. 
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I agree with this. At the risk of sounding like a luddite, the Internet made a lot of this possible.
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All that's really changed is the degree, and I suppose, that it's reached the point where more people are noticing it.
Despite intense replies, on occasion, I try to find the joke in just about everything - putting off the inevitability of going postal.
Oh yeah - the ignorant embracing the stupid - it's so "in your face" these days.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Despite intense replies, on occasion, I try to find the joke in just about everything
On occasion you try to find the joke?
Or
On occasion you reply intense?
But... either way... being you? both look like a bit nicely exagerated, don't you think? 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: But... either way... being you? both look like a bit nicely exagerated, don't you think?
Just what I need. Another critic. Another ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing critic.
I suggest you re-examine my bio. "I have done things".
I didn't say I what, and,
I didn't say I have stopped . . .
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More a piss-take / bogus than a critic...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I'm so glad the soapbox is gone...It's gone, right?
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I can't reply to your post without going into political territory.
You have caught me at quite the disadvantage.
Suffice it to say, not everyone agrees with your thinking/beliefs, including myself. 
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