It’s not revisionists, it’s him himself. You don’t get to claim that revisionists have slandered your name when it’s you yourself that did that.

Oh sorry. There is someone else in the thread who was talking about having this same condition and how they felt and what they had experienced. I see now that it is not what you were responding to.

The point of the other poster’s anecdote. Which isn’t that people necessarily treat you badly because of a defect (as your own anecdote shows) but that when you hear them say things about others, you realize what they are THINKING about you, even if they don’t say it.

Reading about them obviously isn’t a problem. You have to be well informed in history. It’s when people define themselves along ideological lines that mostly irrelevant to the current situation. And it’s not just a philosophical issue. Those wonderful people you know who call themselves Stalinists (and I know people…

The point is that when you hear people tease someone else for the exact same feature you have, it lets you know what they THINK around you, even though they are well behaved.

Yes I agree with this. It’s because it lets you know what other people are thinking all the time. They just don’t say it around you because you aren’t an ass. So when you hear them feel free to say what they are thinking because the target is an ass, then you know what they are thinking around you too.

Not everyone can have that attitude. Sometimes revenge porn destroys people’s lives, especially if it’s the first thing that comes up when someone googles their name. And though this is a minor point, a lot of people DON’T look good naked and DON’T look hot while having sex. If you aren’t the one there fucking them,…

There is a feature of the English language that requires us to use “you” in a general sense as there is no other word. I suppose I could say “one” but that would sound pretentious and awkward.

To be clear, btw, when I say they are not even in the same world as the rest of us, I mean these are people who honestly believe in those conspiracies like the Clintons are murdering members of the Illuminati, and Clinton and Obama are part of a global ring of satanic pedophiles who fly around the world in private…

Obama made a lot of mistakes in decorum early on. The mistakes themselves were minor and unimportant, but it made me wonder how his cabinet could be so ineffective at prepping him.

Oh yes, for sure. That was actually my point, I was just being snarky about it. Still, I’m of the less evil is still less evil camp. Not that being less evil is an excuse (still evil) but you have to admit that the drone program in Trump’s hands is scarier for more people than the drone program in Obama’s hands.

Well that might work for you personally, but if the best that the rest of us get is “someone on an internet chat board says they know someone who works for the government who says they all believe it” then surely you understand the skepticism here.

When I think about these things, they seem inevitable to me. The US is only in the position it’s in because of winning WW2 at the same time as most competition was destroyed and it was itself industrializing, and I think we had a period of exceptional wealth, economic growth and global market dominance. It seems like…

Fine. Maybe they aren’t genocidal. Maybe they just admire a person who is genocidal. What actual policies do they support that they think Stalin has advocated so well that they want to name their entire movement and political identities after him? If that’s the best you can come up with, and at those costs, then why…

I think the goal never should’ve been talking to that base anyway. The extreme right- the Alex Jones listeners and Breitbart consumers- they are hopeless. What I didn’t understand was how deeply this has brainwashed people who are otherwise smart. We are not in the same world as them.

Honestly I really believe it requires a paradigm shift in thinking, and I’m seeing the media and even the smarter people in the DNC fall over themselves in misunderstanding. The reason is obvious- the people in power on the liberal side are ALSO profiting from neoliberal privatization and imperialist policies so it’s…

First off, who is talking about how they won the election? Other than you bringing that up right now, that is totally irrelevant to anything else discussed in this thread, which is about the inaccurate mainstream media portrayal of Bannon as a white supremacist and why this is dangerous.

Hey buddy I’m not going to split hairs about how many millions Stalin killed. Take the lowest possible number, minus the famine and fallout from post-war policy, and we are still looking at numbers well into the millions and comparable with the Holocaust. I mean, if you really want to stake your argument that he’s not…

Why do you keep insisting that the class war is a front? The richest people in the country, including the Koch brothers and billionaires like Trump and Thiel, are laying the foundation right now for tax codes and privatization that will make them even richer and drain public funds. Now you are suggesting that they are…

The other problem with it (and this is a lesser problem) is that it plays into the far right indoctrination. As there is evidence that Bannon is not a white supremacist and as he has personally never made any racist statements (that we know) and since the problematic headlines actually rail against diversity in…