🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@grammargirl We call that an Autoantonym one of my favorite classes of words (though in this case a phrase but same idea).

@icedquinn Which of those two am I? I was arguing poorly constructed arguments.. conflict of interest is kinda secondary.. but im assuming you think im that one?

@luckytran

As a fellow COVID19 research scientist, specifically one who focuses on the data side, I want to point out a criticism here.

An increase of COVID in wastewater is not an indication of a surge in COVID cases... mutations cause different shedding rates, by a huge margin. Seeing a surge in waste water covid particles can just as easily be explained away by the strains present in an area, the strains dominant may either be strains that shed more, and the number of cases are the same or even less, or may be strains that for whatever reason specifically show up more in urine (rather than viral shedding)..

A lot more research might need to be done (or I need to be pointed to if I havent seen it) that would address this before we can assert anything about how this correlates to changes in cases of covid.

Me: Both the DNC and the GOP lack any ability to compromise with anyone that criticizes them even a little

Only blue dude: NO we dont! <lists a bunch of reasons the GOP sucks> You are a GOPer, your both sidism is showing

Me: So my response to you not taking criticism is to prove me wrong by not taking criticism from me and lumping me in with the GOP?

Yea, you cant make this stuff up.

@BigMcLargeHuge if its shorter i can deal with it... but shaving it off is just where im going now.

@BigMcLargeHuge scratchy is an understatement for me.. its just a mental thing.. if i had a full beard id rip it off in frustration just having it there at all... for some reason i only am annoyed when the hair is around my mouth... particularly if i can reach it with my tongue (I know weird).... so this is a compromise for me.

@freepeoplesfreepress

Agreed

@wiseguyeddie Why do you keep fantasisng about thi gs i didnt say and then argue against those fantasies rather than addressing what i said? How does it help arguing with yourself and pretending your arguibg witb me?

Never said you hating the gop was the dogma... nice try though. The dogma was when i criticised the DNC for being able to comrpomise with even mild criticism is completely lacking... i said nothing about the gop.. your response however is QED to the very poi t i made.

I did not debate that i proudly poi t out faults both tbe gop and dnc have. If you want to call that both sidism i dont mind. But you assuming that i am claiming the dnc and gop have to compromise is not what i said.. in fact both are lost causes as i said thry shoukd both be dissolved and not compromise at all.

Regardless you arguing that the gop is bad doesnt in anyway disagree with my claim that the dnc is incapable of compromising with anyone (not just the gop) when criticized.

You literally spent several threeads proving me right on this, QED. THANKS.

@wiseguyeddie I certainly did say that.

Where in there do you see the words GOP? Which was wholly the perspective you argued against.

I even went on to give a personal example which in no way involved the gop..

Be careful your dogma is showing.

Virtually all arguments on the i ternet are between two people each arguing agaibst a fantasy of what the other person said. Neither side even understands the other let alone is arguing against their actual views

@BigMcLargeHuge its the only option that doesnt annoy me. So thats a good start. A full beard i find itchy and uncomfortable so i choose this style more for comfort than looks

Trying out a chin curtain style beard... not sure how i feel about it though...

@wiseguyeddie

> I disagree with your take wholeheartedly. First, the republican party is a fascist criminal regime with NO desire to preserve or protect democracy

How is this disagreeing with me? That agrees 100% with what i said.

> Two, the US has a policy of not negotiating with terrorists as the GOP has repeatedly proven itself to be (look at how the GOP is protecting the insurrectionists who tried to overthrow our government on Jan6)

Ok, again how does this disagree with me. This again agrees 100% with what I said...

Read what I said again then we can argue against what I said, rather than a fictitious argument I didnt say.

@BigMcLargeHuge

Literally anyone who disagrees with them in even the slightest iota of a detail... I've literally pointed out very minor criticisms od the DNC before, while int he same breath making it clear I hate the GOP and have had mobs with pitchforks as the result... If one thing is obvious it is that the DNC is not capable of compromise on any layer, and unreasonableness is an excuse they just use to label everyone that disagrees with them.

@TruthSandwich @wiseguyeddie

@TruthSandwich

I agree.. which is why I also feel very few Ds have any sense of self preservation, because, like the GOP, compromise is not at all their strong suite.

@BigMcLargeHuge @wiseguyeddie

@yamainu

> We definitely need more parties.

Agreed

> None of them should be fascist.

Also agreed, which is why I'd be happy to see the two fascist parties we have abolished: DNC and GOP

> I’d love if the implosion of the regressives reduced the pressure for “blue no matter who” and let the socialists peel away from the democratic party, opening the way for some actual lefties to join them.

Sure, removing socialists and communists from the DNC and push them back to the fringe would be good.

> The remainder would be… centrists, I guess

No they would be moderate left... being left of center isnt center, thats moderate left... center is where your views do not favor either side.

> As long as we get more options!!

Agreed

@uspolitics

@Poe Its great to have you here. I hope you have a wonderful time int he fedi.