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@jsonbecker Sadly, for many, playing the game is worth it if and only when someone else is paying for it. Munitions and children is a popular one. Corporations with no location capriciously ruining a local ecosystem/economy also ranks high on safe investments.

@pratik I like the idea of out doing them at their own game. I find it a quite exquisite satisfaction to solve a problem generally considered unsolvable, like apprehending one’s own appetites, or discovering understanding rather than only familiarity.

I pine for an iconoclast of HST’s ferocity and R. Benchley’s wit. We need it.

[edit: I pine, of course—but ‘A pine’ in exchange for intellects jamming’ that kinda jimmy? Worth it. ]

@pratik I guess what I’m getting at is that no-one benefitting from the game has incentive to call bullshit 4real because it would preclude their use of bullshit. Listening closely to what is said during a hearing, rather than fishing for provocation, one finds all sorts of equivocation and masquerading across the spectrum of political activity.

@pratik I can agree with you on all above, apart from the implication that the right are the sole wielders of these sorts of language games; intentions and outcomes are important distinctions between the groups who employ these tactics, but to imagine a polluted well only poisons your enemies…uh…I’ve got some bad news…

@pimoore If it feeels like a scene from archer I’m in tho; musical theme, questionable but delectable nutrition, y’know, smartassery-a-gogo and heavy outlines. ❤︎ ♜

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