I had to go back and re-read the opening paragraphs. I thought he was saying you were a MEGA lunatic, but I see now it's actually MAGA. But I suppose from his perspective, he is saying you're both. My quibble is with the word "lunatic." It needs no qualifier. In fact, I argue that the use of a qualifier nullifies the qualified. Lunatic m…
I had to go back and re-read the opening paragraphs. I thought he was saying you were a MEGA lunatic, but I see now it's actually MAGA. But I suppose from his perspective, he is saying you're both. My quibble is with the word "lunatic." It needs no qualifier. In fact, I argue that the use of a qualifier nullifies the qualified. Lunatic means a deranged person, someone with a clear mental illness. Mental illnesses don't manifest themselves only when certain criteria are met. One is mentally ill all the time or one is not mentally ill. Now, I find that political idealogues from all points of the spectrum will garble grammar and blatantly misspell the simplest of words, but I do find it more on the Progressive front these days. It goes rather nicely with their total disregard for rational thought.
Oh, some do indeed have narrow invocations. But the illness is pervasive. Some words and environments are more triggering than others. There are certain behaviors that lead an observer to say, "You're a looney!" (if that observer were, say, John Cleese or Graham Chapman) but the illness is always there whether one provides the triggering stimulus or not. It's like an alcoholic... One is always in recovery even if one does not take another drink for fifty years. Because the illness is always present... The best one can hope for is to manage an illness, not fix it.
I had to go back and re-read the opening paragraphs. I thought he was saying you were a MEGA lunatic, but I see now it's actually MAGA. But I suppose from his perspective, he is saying you're both. My quibble is with the word "lunatic." It needs no qualifier. In fact, I argue that the use of a qualifier nullifies the qualified. Lunatic means a deranged person, someone with a clear mental illness. Mental illnesses don't manifest themselves only when certain criteria are met. One is mentally ill all the time or one is not mentally ill. Now, I find that political idealogues from all points of the spectrum will garble grammar and blatantly misspell the simplest of words, but I do find it more on the Progressive front these days. It goes rather nicely with their total disregard for rational thought.
Actually some mental illnesses have very narrow invocations. A lot of psychotics are perfectly rational in every thought except one.
But most are generally crippling. No telling if a “trans” is capable of rationality because they never stop obsessing over “trans.”
Oh, some do indeed have narrow invocations. But the illness is pervasive. Some words and environments are more triggering than others. There are certain behaviors that lead an observer to say, "You're a looney!" (if that observer were, say, John Cleese or Graham Chapman) but the illness is always there whether one provides the triggering stimulus or not. It's like an alcoholic... One is always in recovery even if one does not take another drink for fifty years. Because the illness is always present... The best one can hope for is to manage an illness, not fix it.