(November 7, 2022 at 9:39 am)Irreligious Atheist Wrote:You want, as we all want, not to feel like a simpleton, not to be a loon, not to have been taken advantage of, not to have sunk whatever good will and credibility you ever had into garbage.(November 6, 2022 at 12:43 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Looking as firm as ever. One day you might want to explore your need to seek out confirmation on these things no matter how contrived or contorted. How you've gone from worrying that these things might be true, to needing and or wanting them to be true. That's the point at which the radicalizers responsibility for this nonsense has ended, and your own picked up the torch and took it from there. Once upon a time, or so we've been lead to believe, cynical assholes were taking advantage of you. No longer. You've got that handled all by your onesies. If they stopped, and moved on to the next grift...which they inevitably will, you wouldn't.
Ah, yes, I want and need government censorship to be true. I just love the stuff. You've got me all figured out, Nudge. I remember 15 or 20 years ago watching this whacky lady who was supposedly called an expert on conspiracy theorists, saying that 9/11 truthers believe what they do because they want it to be true. That they want to believe that everything is under control, and that nothing just happens by happenstance. That they want to believe that there is an order to the world. Are you getting your arguments from her, Nudge? No, 9/11 truthers do not want a one world cabal knocking down towers, anti-Semites do not yearn to be ruled over by a Jewish Cabal, and I myself do not want the government to be censoring social media online. And hey, if you'd like, we can go on pretending that free speech still exists, since I suppose it does on a technical level, since these companies are willingly working with government officials in the censorship, and since the government isn't locking people up for speech. Freedom of speech lives on. Nothing to worry about. Things are looking fine and dandy.
I see you keep talking. Freely.
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