Mod post

[lyndz.livejournal.com]

So I guess having two absentee moderators is pretty much worthless. I'm taking nominations to add another couple to the list. I apologize for all but abandoning LJ.

Comments

[oslo.livejournal.com]

Yet you've explained the reason behind your participation here thusly:

I've stated my reason for being here: to keep myself on the cutting edge of emerging rhetorical trends, so I can practice my responses and tear down stupid ideas on both the left and the right when I encounter them in meatspace.

If you're not interested in effectively communicating with stupid people, how is there any value in learning to tear down their arguments? Essentially, you're admitting here that your only audience is yourself: you're practicing tearing down stupid ideas held by people you don't care to communicate effectively with, and the only people you care to communicate with aren't going to hold those stupid ideas.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[madscience.livejournal.com]

The value is in non-stupid people seeing them torn down. Analogous to swing voters, there's a large class of "swing morons" who are in constant danger of falling under the sway of irredeemably stupid people, but who can be saved by seeing their ideas ripped to shreds.

[oslo.livejournal.com]

So you're not interested in communicating with irredeemably stupid people, but you are interested in communicating with these so-called "swing morons?" And I take it, by your statements here, you don't think there are even any "swing morons" here?

How many of these "swing morons" do you suppose there to be, relative to the "irredeemably stupid?" What differentiates them from one another? What benefit is actually gained by tearing down "stupid ideas" for "swing morons"? Do they "swing" to a smarter idea? Or do they remain just as susceptible to stupid ideas?

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

Did you make that ACA alternative site yet?

[rowsdowerisms.livejournal.com]

I think I found it! http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rubios-health-care-project-comes-empty-florida