I like Bricker. He contributes to a lot of threads, IMO. I know some people don’t like him, and I disagree with him on many things, but I generally like him as a poster. He (usually) spends effort to be factually correct.
In the never-ending ID thread, I called him out for making a sweeping insult maligning liberals.
Not a huge deal – happens pretty frequently on all sides. I don’t like it, and I decided to criticize it in this instance.
Bricker objects! Haven’t other liberals made the same sorts of sweeping generalizations? Probably, but I mostly ignore posts by liberals (it’s much more fun to argue with people who actually disagree with me on substantive issues), so we had a back and forth for a little while in which I accuse him of whining like a baby and he accuses me of selectively criticizing conservatives.
Again, typical Pit stuff. Not a huge deal.
The back-and-forth changes a little bit – Bricker says that he must use such tactics, because to abandon them is to disarm himself against the cruel liberal onslaught (my phrase). I say that such tactics are stupid, and can’t he just admit that such sweeping insults are foolish?
He does admit it’s very foolish:
I am conciliatory – he admits he was wrong to make such a sweeping insult!
But no – I read it wrong. He’s doubling down.
He intends to continue to post “clearly and utterly unreasonable” and “unwarranted” stuff because he thinks it works. It does nothing but make him look foolish, IMO. But it makes him look far, far more foolish when he straight up admits that he’s going to post stupid stuff because he thinks it helps his argument.
Sorry, Bricker. Boo. Boo, Bricker. I think you torpedoed yourself. I think you can do better. I hope you do.