This was originally written as a response to go into ATMB, but with @What_Exit’s mod note, I chose to place it here instead. Had I started here, I may have tried being a bit less diplomatic, so here’s a “fuck” just to even it out.
Look, your first post in that thread was to say that the posters were not informed, that they didn’t want to be informed “because they’re clinging to defensive pessimism”. Then followed by, "if you’re determined to feel scared because Trump’s going to find a loophole, nobody can help you. Nobody. "
Then you go on with “And yet, this will still be insufficient for you. So yes, for now, let’s just say Trump is an unstoppable demon-master who is borderline invisible and can steal ghosts.”
It is all about the posters, and not about the topic. It is insulting and demeaning, and it is IMHO, less appropriate in such a thread than Bo’s response to it.
The very second line, after asking to be called a fool, the OP says,
Which is what a fair amount of the thread was about. That you chose to exclude that was your choice, but that doesn’t mean that everyone else must do so. It was not a hijack, it was literally the second line of the OP.
This is not true. But what people did not want to hear was accusations of “handwringing”, of mischaracterizations of their positions of realistic concern boiled down to “cheat codes”, or “this is the defensive pessimism at work. These threads always end with “he can do anything” and there’s no helping people like you”. or “I have been pointing out since August that the rest of you are hyperventilating about him stealing the election; when he leaves office I will gloat unremittingly over my correctness.”
When you say, “Here I’m wondering if anybody has even read the OP.”, or "very Trump-related question must devolve into a hand-wringing jeremiad of “he’s broken everything and he can do whatever he wants”. You are directly insulting the other posters in the thread.
Even in this post here, you claim “There is simply no way to talk realistically about what Trump can or can’t do, without launching directly into a jeremiad about woe is us, all is lost.”
Nothing that you have said contributes anything, it just serves to put others down, and give you a smug sense of self satisfaction. You misrepresent and mischaracterize other’s positions, and then make fun of them.
It is very frustrating, and I think it is entirely inappropriate for civil discourse.
So anyway, since this is in the Pit now, fuck off and shove your concern where the sun don’t shine.