Blogging is Godless Communism, Volume III; Shame or Guilt

Spoiler: only head cases (e.g. aspergoids) offer opinions in public, making the forum an inherently delusional place.

 

I noticed that those who start arguments online are those who feel no shame when they're wrong. There's a selection effect: if being wrong bothers you, even if you were inclined to risk public arguments, you quickly learn it's not worth it and stop.

Then I noticed those who start arguments in real life are those who feel no shame when they're wrong - it's just that their desperate attempts to hide everything don't work very well face-to-face. It only works over social media or in news articles and other very distant situations.

Hence: don't mudwrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it. You lose even if you win.

Hence: the public forum has only pigs in it. [[Free]] speech is worth at most what you pay for it. 

It was normal for Athenians to masturbate in public; arguably Diogenes, masturbating literally, was being less antisocial than average. Diogenes didn't try to deny the fact his act was repulsive and messy. Athens couldn't tell Diogenes why he shouldn't choke it in public because anything it said would condemn itself even moreso.

Modern Fascists are so pathetic they don't even have a satirical Diogenes mocking their hypocrisy. What do you call it when History is trying to rhyme but it's so drunk it can't remember all the words?

Subsidized speech is only useful for speakers you would never intentionally pay to hear. It's only useful for wankers who want to spooge all over the floor and leave without cleaning it up. Subsidized speech is not merely a matter of poisoning the public well as I have previously asserted, but of deliberately digging a well directly into the cloaca. "Hey, drink from this." How about you go fuck yourself.

Unfortunately, I really am on the spectrum and have a weakness for the simplistic reading of a social scene. "They said they were trying to be right, I conclude they were trying to be right." Lel. Kek. Lmao, even. Sorry, no. Approximately, their motive is to be unpleasant on purpose. Their dumb ideas are deliberate vandalism. It's what cowards do instead of egging your house. That's what [free speech] is.

Human speech is normally pollution. It should invoke cleanup costs, not subsidies. If you're forced to hear something the speaker needs to compensate you for the trouble with substantial amounts of cold, hard cash.