Protecting the rentier class

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To be fair, I don't think you're stupid at all. You merely choose to act that way when it suits you, by obfuscating the obvious. This provides very little motivation for me to spend (waste) any meaningful time sparring with you. I have asked Ricter time and again why he adds to the already considerable sunk cost of engaging you and others like you in this ongoing back-and-forth. I had done so for a time, and it was a meaningless exercise, where your comments are either ignored or reframed out of context. I would no more debate you about economics than I would a sociopath about empathy. Not that I am suggesting for one moment that you are a sociopath, because I am quite sure you are not. However, you are a committed ideologue. Experience has shown that committed ideologues don't actually debate.
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Why can't you just spit it out? You won't debate because you're a "committed ideologue".
 
Quote from Tsing Tao:

...As for Jem and his religious arguments, this is economics - something you can show definitive information on. It's nothing at all like a discussion on the nature of the universe...
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Yes, but jem, and others like him, bring the same "analytical" tools to every exchange.
 
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To be fair, I don't think you're stupid at all. You merely choose to act that way when it suits you, by obfuscating the obvious.
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Indeed, this cat is smart, but he has a tendency to play to the base.

Now before you get pissed off, Ivan, I mean you like to play devils advocate. Denner is the same way.
 
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Because I have already done so repeatedly in the past under any of my three non-overlapping user names. I have no interest in doing so again.
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humor us, maybe you will be cogent the 4th time around without getting banned.
 
Quote from Brass:

To be fair, I don't think you're stupid at all. You merely choose to act that way when it suits you, by obfuscating the obvious. This provides very little motivation for me to spend (waste) any meaningful time sparring with you. I have asked Ricter time and again why he adds to the already considerable sunk cost of engaging you and others like you in this ongoing back-and-forth. I had done so for a time, and it was a meaningless exercise, where your comments are either ignored or reframed out of context. I would no more debate you about economics than I would a sociopath about empathy. Not that I am suggesting for one moment that you are a sociopath, because I am quite sure you are not. However, you are a committed ideologue. Experience has shown that committed ideologues don't actually debate.
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But that's just it. Ricter never engages me in economic topics at all. He doesn't answer questions posed to him, he redirects the topic entirely and ignores posts completely. There's no engagement whatsoever in anything Ricter posts. None, zero, zip.

As for being a committed ideologue, i am no more committed to my point of view than you are to yours. You are just as adamant about defending your personal beliefs on a litany of subjects presented in this forum as I do on my economic beliefs.

People who debate usually DO believe in what they are debating. So, I'm unclear in what your point is outside of simply not wishing to take me on in economics.

I do appreciation your retraction of your insult regarding my intelligence.
 
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Why can't you just spit it out? You won't debate because you're a "committed ideologue".
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You know, lets set up an actual debate, shall we?

Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis.

You game? You pick the topic. This is what the basement was originally intended for, right?

Pick a topic, Phoenix. The teams will pick themselves, and we will have a solid debate. No ad homs, just opinions, supported by data of some kind.

Is that fair?
 
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Yes, but jem, and others like him, bring the same "analytical" tools to every exchange.
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Maybe they do so because their points are never addressed, I don't know. I don't follow their arguments. But I can tell you I put out the same arguments until they are addressed. And no one, not you, Ricter or bigarrow who have stepped into the economics threads, have ever tried to argue against the issues - just the person.
 
Quote from RCG Trader:

Indeed, this cat is smart, but he has a tendency to play to the base.

Now before you get pissed off, Ivan, I mean you like to play devils advocate. Denner is the same way.
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Not pissed off at all, man. I only present one position. I don't argue against you just to argue against you. I don't waste my time like that.
 
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You know, lets set up an actual debate, shall we?

Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis.

You game? You pick the topic. This is what the basement was originally intended for, right?

Pick a topic, Phoenix. The teams will pick themselves, and we will have a solid debate. No ad homs, just opinions, supported by data of some kind.

Is that fair?
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You'll need a fair debate judge for that. If the topic is something other than economics, I will offer myself to play that part (and will swear to do so fairly, regardless of my personal view on the subject).

If it's economics, my "side" will need me on it :)
 
Quote from Tsing Tao:

Not pissed off at all, man. I only present one position. I don't argue against you just to argue against you. I don't waste my time like that.
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Well I have asked Phoenix to put up a topic, and lets have an honest debate. Not a youre an idiot slugfest, the folk down here are smarter than that, really.

CO, actually, is the reason I make this call, he says we cannot have an honest discussion about tough shit.

I think we can.
 
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