and I have poor debate skills, so I suspect replying that I don’t think North America is currently threatening to slide too far to the left right now, or that protesting against fascists is not a slippery slope to holding mass trials of all the people you suspect of bourgeois tendencies, will just rile him up more.
I don't see how stating either of those positions requires debate skills. We are demonstrably in the middle of a far-right slide and him being a sea lion is a distraction, not a counterargument.
But I don’t believe he’s an actual troll, just that he’s had more personal experience with one problem with the other.
Similarly, the fact that he's not a troll does not then oblige you to keep talking with him if he's providing nothing but stress. It's like relationships: people don't have to be abusers before you're permitted to break up with them. Sometimes they're just bad at relationships. Or personally a bad match for you. It's all right to get out sooner than the worst-case scenario.
On a lighter note, has anyone ever written a Terry Pratchett/Don Marquis crossover?
Not that I've seen, but it would be adorable. You want to write it?
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Date: 2017-09-26 07:33 pm (UTC)From:I don't see how stating either of those positions requires debate skills. We are demonstrably in the middle of a far-right slide and him being a sea lion is a distraction, not a counterargument.
But I don’t believe he’s an actual troll, just that he’s had more personal experience with one problem with the other.
Similarly, the fact that he's not a troll does not then oblige you to keep talking with him if he's providing nothing but stress. It's like relationships: people don't have to be abusers before you're permitted to break up with them. Sometimes they're just bad at relationships. Or personally a bad match for you. It's all right to get out sooner than the worst-case scenario.
On a lighter note, has anyone ever written a Terry Pratchett/Don Marquis crossover?
Not that I've seen, but it would be adorable. You want to write it?