Political Theory

Re: Was Strauss right?

Autolykos — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:19:33 GMT

Still waiting for you to lay out what you see as my "inanities", Aristophanes.

Re: Was Strauss right?

Autolykos — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:18:47 GMT

Neodoxy:
I thought it was obvious because most people around here wouldn't normally respond so aggressively to something that was so irrelevant. It wasn't a big deal and therefore I thought that it would be clear that this was a joke.

Anyway, I realize how hard it can be to interpret sarcasm over text, so I'm sorry for any trouble caused by the comment

No worries then. I accept your apology.

Neodoxy:
You should work on the mind-reader thing though, it would be quite a marketable skill

Heh, I'll see what I can do.

Re: Was Strauss right?

baxter — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:31:17 GMT

>Jesus, this kid is thick.

Aristophanes, leave the little goat alone.

Re: Was Strauss right?

Aristophanes — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:19:45 GMT

[Debate Tip #83: Always refer to one's opponent as a "kid" so as to simultaneously elevate oneself above the opposition in the eyes of onlookers and infuriate him to the point of incoherence.]

oh, geez, I didn't even have to read the manual.

Re: Was Strauss right?

Jargon — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:50:36 GMT

[Debate Tip #83: Always refer to one's opponent as a "kid" so as to simultaneously elevate oneself above the opposition in the eyes of onlookers and infuriate him to the point of incoherence.]

Re: Was Strauss right?

Aristophanes — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:08:44 GMT

So what was ultimately decided in this thread "Was Strauss right?"?

Is the answer no?

Jesus, this kid is thick.

Re: Was Strauss right?

baxter — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:01:00 GMT

So what was ultimately decided in this thread "Was Strauss right?"?

Is the answer no?

Re: Was Strauss right?

Neodoxy — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:24:17 GMT

Oh... Also, for whatever it's worth I thought that Malachi's signature was part of his post.

Re: Was Strauss right?

Neodoxy — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:22:43 GMT

I thought it was obvious because most people around here wouldn't normally respond so aggressively to something that was so irrelevant. It wasn't a big deal and therefore I thought that it would be clear that this was a joke.

Anyway, I realize how hard it can be to interpret sarcasm over text, so I'm sorry for any trouble caused by the comment

You should work on the mind-reader thing though, it would be quite a marketable skill

Re: Was Strauss right?

Autolykos — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:56:29 GMT

No one's a mind-reader. But I don't see how it could be patently obvious to anyone (let alone me) that you were joking in that post.

Re: Was Strauss right?

Neodoxy — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:54:59 GMT

Both of those things are unfortunate.

Re: Was Strauss right?

Autolykos — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:13:18 GMT

Could've fooled me. And I'm not a mind-reader.

Re: Was Strauss right?

Neodoxy — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:11:14 GMT

It's a joke, Auto.

Re: Was Strauss right?

Autolykos — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:37:12 GMT

Aristophanes:
What does he expect me to respond to? his inanities?

I invite you to lay out what you see as my "inanities".

Re: Was Strauss right?

Autolykos — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:36:30 GMT

Neodoxy:
IT'S NOT ALWAYS ABOUT YOU AUTO.

...

I never said it was. However, Malachi was clearly responding to me, then you gave him "+1 [...] for awesomeness and pwnage". I think it's entirely reasonable for me to have assumed that you were describing his response to me as having both awesomeness and pwnage. Does that make sense?

Neodoxy:
His response to you was the "awesome". The part to Dave was the "pwnage"

GET WITH THE PICTURE

Malachi didn't even respond to Smiling Dave. To be honest, I think I'm more "with the picture" here than you are.