The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

(03-25-2021, 02:06 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(03-25-2021, 09:42 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(03-25-2021, 03:32 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(03-24-2021, 04:32 PM)Einzige Wrote: Nor will it be. Because Biden is basically indistinguishable on policy from Trump.

And you are basically indistinguishable from Classic Xer, Cynic Hero and the libertarian. One fanatic troll sounds just like another after a while.

Well, I don't have any trouble telling the difference between Biden and Trump.  That must be a clue that the ideology blinds one to it.  

Also, if you take the fanatic trolls seriously, you use different language and arguments depending on which troll you are responding to.  The only question is if you have enough energy to take them seriously?  COVID's shutting down of many activities has left me with nothing better to do than respond to the trolls.  I just signed up for my vaccine shot, so we'll have to see how it goes.

Do COVID vaccines kill trolls?

I don't have any trouble telling the difference between them either. As far as I can see, the risks associated with the vaccine are about the same as the risks associated with COVID19. As far as trolls, the term doesn't apply to either of us. You see, we are both committed to a cause and we are both destined to collide once again aka doing whatever it takes to soundly defeat or destroy the other. It's to bad that it will have to come to blows and it's to bad there can only be one victor and it's to bad that there will be no forgiveness extended to the losers either.

Well as the virus has killed over about 2.5 million and the virus vaccines have had 2,216 deaths reported, I figure for a fanatic troll a thousand to one would be hard to distinguish.  Who would quibble over a mere three orders of magnitude with a fanatic troll?

While trolls may be committed to the perceived inevitability of conflict, I apparently don't count.  I anticipate no such conflict.  As they are so stubborn in clinging to their beliefs, in many cases there will be no victor as the fanatic beliefs will continue on indefinitely.  Even the progressives advocating Biden's regeneracy will not wipe out the kooks this crisis.  The best they will be able to do is reduce the conservative old values to obsolete, to create another class of people accepted as kooks, if still dangerous ones.

At that is what has happened in previous crises.

On another site I described how US Civil War historian Shelby Foote described Abe Lincoln and Confederate General Forrest's to a descendent of the general.  They were described as being the two great geniuses who best represented the two cultures of their time.  He may have waxed poetic a bit.  Anyway, the response was to the point.  "We don't talk about That Man."  One can fanatically cling to obsolete perspectives for a long time.  One is not going to kill the perspectives.  One can only make the point of view obsolete.  Of course, Marxism is already obsolete.  The conservative viewpoint will have to wait until the crisis is over the hump.