Quote (majorblood @ Mar 13 2018 08:23pm)
there isn't anything contradicting here, cam is an ancap aka right wing leaning libertarian so he's going to agree with the republican party more often than the democrats on many issues, but some obvious differences are the war on drugs, military intervention, and things of that nature.
i'm not sure how this is hard to understand or even important to people on this forum. why are people desperately trying to categorize cambovenzi?
I have a working theory that involves them not being up to the task of debating me on the actual issues so they try to paint me into a box of undesirable traits. Trump/republican shill, fake libertarian, etc.
(There is a fragment of amusement for me in their false claims due to their extreme often-willful ignorance about libertarianism, especially relative to what i know. they are hardly a qualified judge)
It fulfills a variety of psychological pressures and is a common tactic among the modern identity-obsessed left. feelings and smears instead of real arguments.
It feels good to pretend that its only racists and shills who would disagree with you. a defense mechanism to avoid the bad feelings of admitting you are wrong and an excuse to avoid real intellectual pursuit.
Jordan Peterson discusses something similar about why people like to misrepresent him and try to paint him as a bad guy.
They do not want to accept that a very intelligent, knowledgeable and reasonable person disagrees with leftism, because that would mean its reasonable to disagree with it.
It would mean admitting that its not good leftists vs evil dumb rednecks and racists, and that something is wrong with their world view.
This post was edited by cambovenzi on Mar 13 2018 07:57pm