Dr. Dipwad
Experienced
Something from this thread's Initial Post:
Case in point: @plexi59 expresses his view that three guys who work in the current admin are "A-players" and that he's glad they're "on the team"; @hippietim gives a a wall of pointed laughter in response. It may be that each forum-contributor had heard of the three persons (or at least the two who'd previously been public figures) prior to their involvement in the current administration, and had formed soberly-considered opinions of their capabilities, and retained those opinions unchanged after they joined the current admin...but I kinda doubt it. This exchange feels like a proxy for expressing either support or contempt for the current administration.
Sorry fellows, if I'm being too suspicious, there. If either of you were nodding in approval or retching in protest at Robert Lighthizer's CV way back in 2015, then I'm clearly off-base...but can you see how I might arrive at that misunderstanding?
I thought Matt's invocation (apropos of...not much) of climate change was courting a descent into political rah-rah as well. We mostly dodged that bullet (and had I seen it in a different thread I might have leapt at the chance to talk up 4th-Gen Nuclear!). But here, it felt like a risky mention.
For full disclosure, I'm probably reddish-gray in the Slate Star Codex system of political tribal classifications, but when folk are dying and losing jobs left and right (no pun intended), it gets really depressing seeing all my buds in the teepee still wearing their war-paint.
If I'm being oversensitive on this, I apologize. And if my own war-paint was ever showing when it shouldn't be, I'm sorry for that, as well. I hope we all live and thrive.
Are we really managing #3, here?Rules to remember
- Be civil and courteous. Attacks, insults or harassment will not be tolerated.
- No religion.
- NO POLITICS.
Case in point: @plexi59 expresses his view that three guys who work in the current admin are "A-players" and that he's glad they're "on the team"; @hippietim gives a a wall of pointed laughter in response. It may be that each forum-contributor had heard of the three persons (or at least the two who'd previously been public figures) prior to their involvement in the current administration, and had formed soberly-considered opinions of their capabilities, and retained those opinions unchanged after they joined the current admin...but I kinda doubt it. This exchange feels like a proxy for expressing either support or contempt for the current administration.
Sorry fellows, if I'm being too suspicious, there. If either of you were nodding in approval or retching in protest at Robert Lighthizer's CV way back in 2015, then I'm clearly off-base...but can you see how I might arrive at that misunderstanding?
I thought Matt's invocation (apropos of...not much) of climate change was courting a descent into political rah-rah as well. We mostly dodged that bullet (and had I seen it in a different thread I might have leapt at the chance to talk up 4th-Gen Nuclear!). But here, it felt like a risky mention.
For full disclosure, I'm probably reddish-gray in the Slate Star Codex system of political tribal classifications, but when folk are dying and losing jobs left and right (no pun intended), it gets really depressing seeing all my buds in the teepee still wearing their war-paint.
If I'm being oversensitive on this, I apologize. And if my own war-paint was ever showing when it shouldn't be, I'm sorry for that, as well. I hope we all live and thrive.