I don't like Trump

[Martin Hash]

Returning, briefly to the OP, I agree that TDS is an unhelpful term.

Dude, I’m proposing a medical diagnosis. (You can call me “not a real doctor” now.)

[DBTrek]

Returning, briefly to the OP, I agree that TDS is an unhelpful term.

Well then, looks like consensus.
10 out of 10 TDS sufferers agree, being diagnosed sucks!

[Montegriffo]

I don't know if that is true. I consider myself egalitarian, and I love capitalism almost as much as I love the bureaucratic state... which is quite a lot.

Of course it's not true. It's just Hash's way of avoiding the issue. He'll be calling me a TDS suffering Marxist next.

From what I hear, you are a TDS suffering Marxist. Devil! Don't talk to me!

Fair enough, If I can't discuss the best way out of this pandemic without being accused of wanting to crash the world and kill off capitalism it's probably bedtime anyway.

[Martin Hash]

Life is not more important than liberty. Life is not more important than an economy. Life is not the number one thing. Therefore, when someone makes a sanctimonious argument, I suspect an ulterior motive, maybe even subconscious.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Returning, briefly to the OP, I agree that TDS is an unhelpful term.

Dude, I’m proposing a medical diagnosis. (You can call me “not a real doctor” now.)

I would never. I respect expertise.

However, if you are debating someone with a diagnosable derangement, you are already wasting your time, and throwing their diagnosis in their face isn't going to be fruitful. What is the point?

[Speaker to Animals]

Somewhere around the point where holding a president accountable for his fuck ups was characterized as TDS is when some people lost sight of the meaning of the word delusional in a very ironic fashion.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Returning, briefly to the OP, I agree that TDS is an unhelpful term.

Well then, looks like consensus.
10 out of 10 TDS sufferers agree, being diagnosed sucks!

We all have our crosses, I suppose. Monte and I share the cross of believing someone who is clearly very great, the best ever, a genius, even, is a dangerous retard whose only real asset is that they are too retarded to be as dangerous as they could be.

Maybe Hash can whip up a pill that will cure us of this derangement.

[Martin Hash]

Returning, briefly to the OP, I agree that TDS is an unhelpful term.

Dude, I’m proposing a medical diagnosis. (You can call me “not a real doctor” now.)

I would never. I respect expertise.

However, if you are debating someone with a diagnosable derangement, you are already wasting your time, and throwing their diagnosis in their face isn't going to be fruitful. What is the point?

It’s already visibly helped Monte. He’s much more circumspect with his blanket Trump hate. I think he’s paying attention now and possibly self-curing. He can still dislike Trump; lots of people do.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Dude, I’m proposing a medical diagnosis. (You can call me “not a real doctor” now.)

I would never. I respect expertise.

However, if you are debating someone with a diagnosable derangement, you are already wasting your time, and throwing their diagnosis in their face isn't going to be fruitful. What is the point?

It’s already visibly helped Monte. He’s much more circumspect with his blanket Trump hate. I think he’s paying attention now and possibly self-curing. He can still dislike Trump; lots of people do.

Possibly.

If I proposed Trump Positivity Bias (TPB, if you will) was a mental delusion with diagnostic criteria, do you really think people would self-correct? I am not a real doctor, but I would be happy to run my diagnostic criteria by a clinical psychologist I know with years of experience working with the criminally insane.

Incidentally, this

Somewhere around the point where holding a president accountable for his fuck ups was characterized as TDS is when some people lost sight of the meaning of the word delusional in a very ironic fashion.

would be one of the criteria.

[Montegriffo]

Dude, I’m proposing a medical diagnosis. (You can call me “not a real doctor” now.)

I would never. I respect expertise.

However, if you are debating someone with a diagnosable derangement, you are already wasting your time, and throwing their diagnosis in their face isn't going to be fruitful. What is the point?

It’s already visibly helped Monte. He’s much more circumspect with his blanket Trump hate. I think he’s paying attention now and possibly self-curing. He can still dislike Trump; lots of people do.

Not really, I just don't see the point in trying to discuss his failures any more if all I get is accusations of being deranged.
Kinda what the condition was invented for in the first place.
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