Have seen so many otherwise tame people go mask off fash because you can’t argue with logic (never mind the root cause of the logic in question)
I am seriously fucking terrified. I think philosophy might be dead thanks to pompous tech bros
Have seen so many otherwise tame people go mask off fash because you can’t argue with logic (never mind the root cause of the logic in question)
I am seriously fucking terrified. I think philosophy might be dead thanks to pompous tech bros
This shit bothers the piss outta me but if you keep pressing them like this in my xp they will agree with you long enough until they get to the part where they either implicitly or explicitly admit they just don’t care about anything adjacent to a measurable truth and will go back to complaining about the homeless or lazy kids or whatever. Like, they’ll straight up say you’re right about everything, and then continue the conversation as if it never happened. Maddening. I don’t bother anymore.
He's a good friend of mine, and I usually just try to steer away from politics with him. He's just not engaged enough to see a big picture, and resorts to dumb shit like "we gotta reign in the deficit" or some other nebulous thing that won't improve people's material conditions. If I can, I remind him that the key to all of this is improving material conditions.