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LOL!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IY8o0DgHHgk&t=60s

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"nobody here has ever claimed to be 100% certain about everything?"

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"if I wasn’t sure that I was right about something, I wouldn’t post about it. it really is as simple as that."

LOL!

10/16/2026 6:56:21 AM

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"im just a dummy off to the side that everybody hates together"

Nobody hates you here. I certainly don't. Soldier on, Florida Man!

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"Tell me I'm funny and nice and worth validation pls"

Thank you for classifying me in a "normal" group. Might be a first! I'm trying so hard to give the perception of a fully functional adult human.

10/16/2026 7:03:54 AM

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""nobody here has ever claimed to be 100% certain about everything?""

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"if I wasn’t sure that I was right about something, I wouldn’t post about it."

in tgl's defense, he's not sure about every thing. he's sure about some things.

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" Nobody hates you here. I certainly don't."

agreed.

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"See, this seems like something most people on here would agree with. But I wouldn't have seen it had I not clicked on a bunch of twitter links, which I don't necessarily come to TWW to do."

understandable. i suppose i ought to stop bothering with that practice here.

10/16/2026 7:59:03 AM

glad you were able to pick up on that

10/16/2026 8:32:21 AM

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"in tgl's defense, he's not sure about every thing. he's sure about some things."

So he's only sure about everything he posts. So only sure about 100% of the side of him that any of us gets to experience. It's exactly the same effect.

He is probably 80-90% ideologically aligned with 80-90% of the posters that remain in the Soap Box, and yet he's the only one who posts like he does, with absolutism and utter condescension if not contempt. That's just my feeling from a decade of reading his stuff, much of which I'd probably otherwise agree with, save a few issues.

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"understandable. i suppose i ought to stop bothering with that practice here."

I am purposely not on the Twitters. Is it more work to copy and paste or to restate your relevant thoughts than to link externally through hrefs? While clicking links is always voluntary, I don't particularly enjoy coming to TWW to be constantly directed away from TWW (especially to something that requires an account to view any commentary).

I'm not mad, though.

10/16/2026 8:35:27 AM

I have contempt for those who are ok with attacks on human rights

10/16/2026 8:51:38 AM

Probably no one here would disagree with that statement. The issue lies with how rights are defined and constraints are in place and who writes the definitions.

10/16/2026 8:55:10 AM

says the guy who regularly uses slurs and defends the federal governments attack on its citizens and immigrants

another thing that I have contempt for

[Edited on October 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM. Reason : .]

10/16/2026 8:59:23 AM

The issue lies with how the things you have contempt for are defined

[Edited on October 16, 2026 at 9:10 AM. Reason : and if you have incorrect definitions, you unjustly subject others to your contempt. this is immoral]

10/16/2026 9:09:49 AM

Who else out there is giving us SpaceX powered sports cars???

10/16/2026 9:42:33 AM

Are they giving them away?!

10/16/2026 9:47:23 AM

Slurs is a good one. We could talk about using them hatefully, as a troll to overly sensitive pearl clutching forum posters, or as a good ribbing to your gay friend that leaves you at the bar when he finds a hot guy.

I define them only as the first case and recognize the nuance in the others. You being unable to see nuance probably see them as equivalent despite intent or social graces.

Additionally, I don't think someone breaking the rule in the first case deserves to lose their job or be debanked. I just wouldn't hang out with them personally.

[Edited on October 16, 2026 at 10:44 AM. Reason : A]

10/16/2026 10:42:44 AM

a good example of why I posted the Al-Ghazali video the other day. There's no distinction making with tgl. there is a consistent flattening of meaning and intent of others, a dehumanizing lack of empathy for the mind of the other, and always in the direction that permits and demands the believer to maximally condemn the other and therefore to justify their maximum punishment by the Inquisitors.

And to be less personally antagonistic about it, let me be clear that this is a phenomenon that happens on both the left (bluesky is the vipers nest for this sort of behavior so for the good of your own soul stop hanging out there) and the right. Because it is human nature. We are only human. But it is the path to Totalitarianism.

[Edited on October 16, 2026 at 11:14 AM. Reason : i am the warner]

10/16/2026 11:14:23 AM

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" Mr. Musk, the world's richest person and a Texas resident who has major business interests in the state, sent $158 million in September to a super PAC that immediately flipped that much money to a group backing Mr. Paxton's Senate bid, according to campaign-finance filings released Thursday. The donations from Mr. Musk, collectively some of the biggest ever recorded in American politics, have allowed Mr. Paxton to remain financially competitive even as he is vastly outraised by his Democratic opponent, James Talarico. Republicans in Texas have grown increasingly worried about the race, one of this year's most expensive and high-profile contests, fearful of losing a statewide election in Texas for the first time in more than three decades. "

Good example of why we need to end billionaires and superpacs. Individual donors to Talarico are out raising Paxton by 3:1 but dump the musk pac money in and he can single handedly flood any media market with his intentional lies.

10/16/2026 11:33:15 AM

^^ And I get why he does that with me, as I'm typically deliberately hyperbolic, but as The Coz pointed out he does so with contempt even people he agrees with. Instead of engaging to discover differences and where the disagreement lies he hand waves away into vague statements that dismiss rather than engage and root out where the differences lie.

I care more about the full context, how it's presented and sold than not offending the in group. To TGL that means "defending". My position on ICE is generally, horrible implementation, unwinnable situation. The comparison between someone like Pretti (sp?) defending a woman and the ICE agents kicking and ultimately shooting him looks super bad, is bad. I think the Renee Good one was more nuanced legally. I can empathize with someone trying to be an ICE agent and being in that environment and I understand how when you think you are literally defending blue hairs from the gas chambers that would make you not side with them at all. I can see both points even if I think someone in ICE or Renee Good were totally incompetent. I feel sorry for both of them.

[Edited on October 16, 2026 at 11:46 AM. Reason : a]

10/16/2026 11:42:49 AM