(12-03-2020, 11:39 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(12-03-2020, 11:01 AM)mikesez Wrote: That's Bulverism.
Weasels can be right about stuff.  And you could be mistaken about whether or not I'm a weasel in the first place.
In order to have a productive dialogue, you have to assume that your dialogue partner has good intentions and be generous in your interpretation of his words. Interpret them as "strong man" rather than "straw man" arguments. 
But I'm pretty sure you're not here for productive dialogue and that's fine.

It's fine, I'm used to your bull [BLEEP] ism. I don't always think you're wrong, I just know that you're disingenuous.

You never agree with me unless I agree with you first.  You're not being honest with yourself and you're not being honest with the rest of us.  You do always think I'm wrong.
When a person has significantly more aptitude and education than most of his conversation partners, he must choose to pretend to have less, and get accused of being disingenuous, or be candid about the depth and breadth of his knowledge, and get accused of talking down to people. Both of us have graduate degrees. So both of us have this problem. I choose the first approach, you choose the second. Your approach of talking down to people works for you because you do it with so much spite and so much disregard for them as people that observers find it funny, though the targets of your ire rarely do.
Anyhow, sneakers actually accused me of pretending to know more than I actually know, not less.
So I don't think you've diagnosed the problem.

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