Matthew Downhour

I just grabbed the first three screen shots indicating that the difference was marginal, vibes, or pedantic. I cannot possibly be my fault if all three were anti capitalists (I don’t even know if they were!)

Except they made it about themselves by quote tweeting me before I had any interaction with them at all

Those were all the people who had already responded to that exact post! I didn’t go looking for them! If they had not responded on that post I didn’t include them!

Guys when I pointed out that ‘both parties are the same’ was a blinkering viewpoint I was talking about this woman. It is not possibly my fault if leftists took at as a slight against them

It’s really not my fault that anti capitalists made it about them

My initial point by the way was about this woman and the point was that capital itself didn’t believe there was a difference in bellicosity between parties

No but if it’s three out of a relatively small number of people I interact with on this niche website I feel confident the real number is ‘lots’

The funny thing is that the original object of all of this wasn’t a leftist at all but a Bank of America risk assessor on TV, leftists just decided it was about them

What principles did I abandon? Being nice on social media? I’ll admit that’s not a core principle of mine though it is a conditional aspiration

I don’t know how to disprove the claim ‘no one says this’ except by pointing out that people say it

Ordering the U.S. military to bomb schools is a pretty big difference between Trump and Biden and id argue it’s a substantive policy difference

This is amazing. Trump is president and literally bombs a school and he has less agency than Biden?

How about ‘there is a lack of substantive policy difference’

They are a war crime by Israel for firing the missiles

Also can I steelman my claim to ‘lots of people say there are no substantive policy differences between the parties’?

Took 'em like three replies to get to saying the thing they say no one ever says.

This is where we’ve come in our need to deny Trump’s unique culpability for this war

He is in fact sending the order to do so, which Biden did not

No, and yet when I gave a very specific example you generalized to ‘war crimes’ rather than sticking with the topic at hand

jude doyle's law: complaining about behavior X from group Y gets two types of responses from group Y, "that's a strawman no one is saying that" and "i did it and i'll fucking do it again"

I feel no obligation to people whose only interaction with me is to call me a liar. I don’t scan my feed picking fights with leftists but how is it possibly on me to behave charitably if they start out that way?

So I see where a holistic approach is better except that two very bad partisan outcomes also acutely brought us here

And also without Trump 1, we would actually still have a nuclear deal with Iran

Except that without Trump, the 40 year streak of the U.S. not directly attacking Iran would have continued

Sure no one says the parties are the same just that the difference is either vibes, or it’s marginal, or pointing it out is pedantry

How many tomahawks did Biden send into schools

A steel man of ‘people say the parties are the same’ is ‘people say the difference between parties is marginal, vibes, or pedantry’

You are the one who said Israel killed those kids. I pointed out that the U.S. did it. You flipped out because you can’t read

I think maybe you should consider the possibility that there is a difference between the U.S. not constraining Israel and the U.S. bombing Iran itself

Why am I behooved to do anything? I’m the one who was quote tweeted with a claim that I was complaining about something that never happens