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Koz in reply to Nob Akimoto says:

What do you think basic economic principles are? The study of resources and their deployment perhaps? My guess is if you look at at the textbook you’ll see something along those lines.

You spazzed out at me the other day. Contrary to what North wrote, I didn’t bait you into that. Nonetheless it’s not a huge surprise either. It’s pretty typical reaction when fundamental building blocks of our psychology are crumbling away. Let’s make a wild guess that there was nothing too traumatic in your personal life at the time. In that case it’s pretty clear you are distraught over the possibility of PPACA being overturned by SCOTUS.

Instead of spazzing out, why can’t you take some responsibility for the corrupt advocacy of libs, of which you are obviously one. “I, as lib, who given America a gift of unemployment and misanthropy now have the opportunity to choose something different and I’m going to do that.”Report

Koz in reply to Nob Akimoto says:

“If you had anything remotely useful to contribute to a discussion, I would actually engage your point rather than “spazz out” as you say.”

Oh but I do, Nob, I absolutely do. And underlying most of it is this: as we correspond with each other, either you and I in particular or people in general in forums such as this, we have to engage each other as we are situated. That means we have some measure of intelligence, imagination, private resources, and part of a collective claim to public resources. Good faith advocacy happens as we engage each other in these terms. Corrupt advocacy happens when we refuse to acknowledge each other this way or denigrate our interlocutors for the sake of stealing a base forensically.

Specifically as it pertains to libs, the problem is typically this: they want to claim private resources as public and following that, that public resources are theirs personally or proprietary to their political affiliation. For PPACA, it’s been pretty clear for at least a couple of years that libs have zero intention of forgoing or postponing their desire to have universal coverage in the American health care system no matter what the American people think or believe. That is simply corrupt advocacy and that’s what was exposed this week, much more than whatever we can reasonably blame SG Verrilli for.

“But rather than that, I’m simply going to state that in the future, I’ll remember not to actually respond to you. Oh as a simple matter, you’re not welcome regarding comments on my own blog posts. Keep your shit to where I don’t have to see it.”

Lovely. Got to protect the precious SWPL eyeballs from the uncomfortable consequences of what they want to impose on the rest of the world. For at least a few months that there’s been a decent-sized constituency among the regulars here to turn the League into an SWPL Journolist, and that may yet end up happening. Whether it does or not, the desire for it should be seen for what it is, cultural insularity. And the important consequence is this: you can enforce the cultural boundaries of what you’re willing to engage, but you can’t force the rest of the world to accept your boundaries as its own. And what happened this week is just one example of the cocoon being burst.Report