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• Post #4399287

  I’m not sure what kind of “gotcha” this is supposed to be. Is “J” suggesting that we only hate him because he’s a Republican, independent of his actual character and actions, and that we’d change our minds about him if he switched his party affiliation but kept doing the same stuff? Or is he trying to suggest that we hate him, specifically, for some “unknown” reason, and would continue to hate him even if he changed his platform and started doing Democrat things? I mean, no matter his party or...

• Post #3505174

  Wikipedia also has a well-known and well-exercised rule called the Snowball Clause. Basically, if consensus is clear early, don’t waste others’ time or let further harm occur while you’re waiting for a procedure to reach a foregone conclusion. In the ban discussion, you can see a clear consensus developing very early that Sanger was, by his own admission on external platforms, NOTHERE to build an encyclopedia. He further doubled down on his position in the discussion thread for his own banning...

• Post #479325

  Chesterton’s Fence, but for things you don’t understand.

• Post #22902

  This. As soon as we treat them as “only monsters,” we start to think that “regular humans” aren’t capable of monstrous things.