It’s sort of surprising how rare it is given the prevalence of the tactic in practice, but it truly is rare: here’s someone just flatly laying out exactly the sort of deliberately time-wasting contemptuous, bad-faith interaction that almost all right-wing “debate” rests upon. https://twitter.com/conceptualjames/status/1273080584437407746">https://twitter.com/conceptua...

The invitation to explain obvious observable truths to someone demonstrating an unwillingness to observe obvious truths is a deliberate malicious attempt to sabotage the transmission of truth.

What’s most extraordinary about James’ performative outrage at having his bad faith tactics pointed out is that he just got done explaining—at length, in detail, proudly—how he advises people to utilize bad faith tactics to sabotage discourse.

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Some people want discourse. Others want to utilize discourse to waste people’s time. When you refuse to have your time wasted, they quickly become hostile. The briefest glance at my mentions right now demonstrates this.

Use wisdom and discernment.
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