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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  2645 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thanks to Trump, Scientists Are Planning to Run for Office

Howard Dean was a Doctor.

Bill Frist was a Physician and Majority Leader.

Scientists? Close. I see your point with anti-intellectualism in politics, but your attitude towards this topic is shit.





user-inactivated  ·  2645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    but your attitude towards this topic is shit.

Dude, what the hell? Why are you turning it into a Reddit thread all of a sudden?

ButterflyEffect  ·  2645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Because it a silo'd, defeatist attitude and flag has repeatedly shown no interest in having real conversations on this place as of late. Just blasting a line or three of snark and moving on.

To each their own.

user-inactivated  ·  2645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not judging you for being disappointed in flags. What bothers me is that you turn a solid reason for being disappointed into "your attitude is shit" which promotes nothing but reciprocal aggression because it's mere trashtalk, and this isn't the place for that.

ButterflyEffect  ·  2645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Because it offers no possible solution, no support or encouragement, no real reasoning, it's just a "fuck you" in a few more words than that. Sorry I was much more up front with what I was trying to say?

user-inactivated  ·  2645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If it's truly such a dreadful comment, I don't know why you'd follow its example.

user-inactivated  ·  2645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    but your attitude towards this topic is shit

much appreciated

user-inactivated  ·  2645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

But let's not have more like Bill Frist. One Bill Frist was enough.