Panem et circenses

[MagsJ (..a chic geek)]

@Gamer

I can’t answer for Peter. But yeah, one can “try again later” but don’t expect much. I just think at times you can catch people (maybe not Kropotkin, idk) in different moods or come from a different angle, and suddenly you have a discourse instead of a series of deflections. Orderly discourse is the holy grail because both sides get a chance to explore and learn, because they’re both on the side of discourse, above all. But yeah, come back, try again, you can get positions to soften over time, or you can hone your wisdom for anticipating the pushback and find any weak spots in your own argument. I’m a firm believer in continuing the conversation. I no longer get a thrill from being clever and theatrical. I like a nice, clean, orderly dialectic on an urgently importantly topic. I rarely get that, but I always come back to people to try again. Ever hopeful.

We live in hope…

@Magnus Anderson

@Magjs

When others attempt to engage, you don’t, and you go start a new thread. True!

I can second that. He has stated on at least one occasion – although I believe he did it more than once – that he has no interest in conversing with people on this board and that that is simply his style. He has that “I don’t care what other people think of me” attitude.

Peter doesn’t care what people think, at all.

The best outlook to have, on a message board?

[Meno2 (Meno_)]

From a central position his utility consist of a backwater glance into the way epic persona of the day used to impersonate themselves as everyman back then.
He does appear as a critical voice above the political facade, not necessarily ingeniously soapbox, but establishing successfully a baseline of withheld suppression of social apprehension placed on a petri dish, that obviously need no amplification .
Although he does assign himself such a role that makes discussion less then convincingly resolute, the baseline is like a springboard for above and below that boundary a point of departure for others.
So a kind of ‘return to main street’ has reactive value to things seemingly spinning out of control.( in forum and out)

Maybe, maybe not.

[Mr_Reasonable]

hey peter good news today. the fbi raided mar-a-lago. served a warrant. i think it’s about that truckload of classified documents he stole when he was leaving the white house. he was in NJ at the time. they opened his safe at mar-a-lago. fox et all are spazzing lolol