commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]
Well I gotta ask the obvious, is this in any way a reference to RedSails? I bet they’d love to place your work on the site in some way, it’s gorgeous.
My assumption: He’s super irreverent when he disagrees. He states his position as fact and challenges others to present critiques to his works at that level. It’s arrogant to do when your work is worthless, and people have little idea of what to do when someone’s work is valuable AND they take the position associated with that arrogance. It seems to me that he is just taking himself and his positions with the sincerity and seriousness needed if we ever want to apply this to truly make a worthwhile communist party and movement. We’re just so used to everyone accepting differences of opinion without trying to work towards better positions through critique. He places his work in front of people who have a different position with a claim like “I think your position is wrong and wrote about it here,” and tries to get people to engage by reading the article and then responding. People hate to be told to read an article instead of a short tweet
What was literally said in DMs: He decides his position and finds a way to rationalize it afterwards instead of the other way. Also he starts beef with leftists unnecessarily.
As a response to that I asked for an example because I hadn’t noticed this trend of rationalization. I was called a fanboy and puppet and debatebro for it. To be fair, I also started out saying that their critique seemed to fail on its own merits because they also baselessly (with no example or reference to his work) argued that he lacked any basis for his positions and that I won’t take their critique seriously without seeing a reference to a case. That wasn’t the nicest way to start the convo. Still think I was right though, based on the avoidance that came afterwards. That person just never read a single article on redsails.
Happy Transiversary! I had no idea these exist but now that I know it, it seems super natural to celebrate it. If you don’t mind, I do have a few Q’s about it to pick your brain and learn. Is it the date that you decided for yourself or the first time you told someone? Or some third thing I didn’t think of? Are there any specific things that you do ritually on this day? (like taking a moment to reflect or buying a cake or throwing a party?)
Is it possible that that also was a sort of score handicap? Like for every hole he took a 1-2 stroke handicap? Then with that addition he got 5 at one above par?
Could also very easily be he cheated to get 1 above par. Honestly couldn’t give less of a shit but exploring the possibilities