That’s very Robespierre!

Actually I was just conducting a litmus test to see if you were a Chinese bot… but you passed!

In seriousness, I guess I just like to get people to think critically rather than just bow to lo-fi ideological trends. It’s my holiday gift, friend 😉

That is such a nuanced point! Let’s hear some substantive rationale, as opposed to banal sloganeering, how about.

That is such a nuanced point! Let’s hear some substantive rationale, as opposed to banal sloganeering, how about.

Oh please — this was probably plagiarized by one of his well-paid tutors. Real Robin Hood, right?

What is he, the new Saint Augustine? He’s a spoiled rich kid with no moral compass who decided the rules didn’t apply to him.

It’s staggering how Americans go in for this claptrap, time and again.

Based on what interaction would you theorize that I’m a troll? We’re not friends, so the deduction is that you would have trolled another’s comment thread. Gosh, that’s hypocritical. Why attempt to smear or discredit someone with whom you disagree? Don’t they teach genuflection at university?

Perhaps you’re not conversant with standard English within which are contained actual points of view, versus the wonderful parroting of party lines and the most boring cliches ever to encircle the sun!

How about a third category? Let’s go out on a limb and call me “independent thinker.” Recall those?

Actually I’m a human being, and I think my wife and two children would take exception to that disparaging remark.

Whoa… you sure have a lot of followers! That’s a red flag for a bot. Are you real, or looking to sow the seeds of unrest?

Well we could play a game of blame and I-Told-You-So… or, we work together toward the progress that everyone wants. Like rationally self-interested adults not looking to burn everything down spitefully.

That’s vulgar and hardly a substantive viewpoint. My 13-year-old’s rhetoric is more nuanced. Irrespective of your opinion, this is the President-Elect; have some respect for the office itself, if nothing else

Look at how discourse has devolved, thanks largely to these mechanisms.

For someone from the UK, you have a peculiarly large and vested interest in the goings-on in the US, don’t you? What’s the deal here? Whom — or what — do you represent?

Now, now, one must give the devil his due.

Here’s a better pearl: The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Well this certainly boils down many complex issues into neat slogans. Gosh, what’s all the fighting about? Let’s elect a single world leader to bring down the hammer and set us all straight, once and for all. I love it when another does all the thinking and solving for me!

I don’t know what that delegation means. Here’s what I do now:

This default-setting of violence, hostility and retribution as means to an end is not why we’re here and not what we’re supposed to be doing. It’s going to end badly for all of us.

We need to recalibrate the world-soul.

She needs to retire, certainly; but for reasons far beyond this and much more egregious ones, at that.

Not at all sure how this addresses any substantial point, nor can one gauge what people internally care about. Laws have to reign supreme. Murder is murder, irrespective of the reason; relax that, for whatever whimsical and/or ideological fixation, and we are doomed.

Lol. Although, to be fair, he studied before the House committee saying that he has vaccinated his children. I doubt he would perjure himself.