Just watched Rebecca Watson's video. She really lays it out. "Fearless" doesn't do her justice.
But I'm confused about your reference to Sabine. Would you explain. Thanks. -- Russ <https://russabbott.substack.com/> P.S. Here's my post <https://russabbott.substack.com/p/the-gun-that-killed-charlie-kirk> about Charlie Kirk. On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM glen <[email protected]> wrote: > The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas > > https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/the-debate-me-bro-grift-how-trolls-weaponized-the-marketplace-of-ideas/ > > I've ranted about the retreat into informal reasoning because formal > reasoning doesn't seem bushy enough to handle all the vagaries we need for > wild type reasoning. A friend of mine who leans heavily to the right, but > thankfully could not vote for Cheeto Jesus, made the comment that Kirk was > "just trying to talk to people". I regret that I didn't try to correct him. > I did remind him that I spent a lot of my off time in college surrounded by > very aggressive Christians, trying to tell them how wrong they were. I > mean, anyone who engages in that sort of thing in a place like Texas (where > we were) should *know* they're likely to get shot. I was fine with the > risk. And so should Kirk have been. > > Anywya, it seems to me his assassination is tightly analogous to the > assassination of the United Health CEO. The *damage* Kirk has done to > discourse is analogous to the damage people like Thompson do to health (not > healthcare, but health). Is it the same? No, of course not. Is it > analogous? Yes, I think so. > > And I know lots of people here are tolerant of Sabine. But she's right > there in the pit of vipers with Kirk. This article may help put that in > perspective: > > How the New Atheists Joined the MAHA War on Science > > https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/new-atheists-maha-war-on-science.html > > But any of us are susceptible to the attractor. And once you're in it, > *how* do you extract yourself? > > p.s. As usual, Rebecca is fearless: > https://skepchick.org/2025/09/charlie-kirk-and-the-empathy-paradox/ > > -- > ¡sıɹƎ ןıɐH ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ > ὅτε oi μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχϑροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὰ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα > σώσω. > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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