First of all, I don't speak with everyone with whom I happen to have a disagreement on a given point on RI in the same way. Depends on the disagreement, the history, the subject, and of course any relationship I might have with the person, including in RL.
Second, there are people or personas here who, if they spoke in RL as they do here, I'd have nothing to do with after that, and probably no need to deal with them.
Third, there are personas who push certain lines and assertions over and over even after refutation on fact or logic, perpetually, which they can't do in RL, but which here creates a kind of Sisyphean trap where we're, to take one example out of many, always having to re-prove that the Federal Reserve is owned and basically controlled by the U.S.-registered member banks that it actually serves, and not secretly by a foreign Zionist consortium who planned and waged World War I and want to exterminate the Christians. This is not a conversation I'm built to wage within the formal standards of bourgeois "civility" beyond, maybe, the first time with a given person.
If we sat all the regulars in a room for a few hours most of this (incredibly frustrating perpetual) personal acrimony would disappear. So next time you're about to fire off a nasty to a familiar poster, imagine them sitting there in your living room, drinking a glass of wine.
If I had a living room, ha ha, I can see you and everyone you hang out with in Seattle being invited over for wine, but again, certainly not these personas who haven't been part of the various RI meetings (through which I've met about six of you I guess), and who seem to be here as personas only, with specific missions and subjects in mind.
If someone talked fascist or racist shit, I certainly wouldn't be hanging out with them for hours, or thinking differences between us are all just a matter of seeing each others' perspective, or of communicative misunderstanding and differing styles. (I'd also stay away from someone if they struck me as having the potential for projecting an obsessive persecution complex or other personal fantasies on to arbitrary others whom they will then harrass with baseless grievances about imagined slights.)
As for bluenose, I'd only ever expect to see this as a person in RL at an anti-fascist counter-demonstration. He'd be safely on the other side of the police presence, with his small but tight crew of those who believe things like, "The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you."
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