“It'll all be over by Christmas” (No it won't)

Re:“It'll all be over by Christmas” (No it won't) by barrenko on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:22AM (#22897727)

Should people who write be sheepish and meek? I don't understand the "arrogance" argument.

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Re:“It'll all be over by Christmas” (No it won't) by ceilingcorner on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:26AM (#22897750)

I said snarky and irritating, not arrogant. Here are some examples of what I mean:

- (I predict the USA will merrily go its own way and faceplant, unless y'all elect a competent next POTUS. Or VPOTUS, insofar as Biden appears to be past it and Pence is incompetent at anything but arse-licking.)

- Extra lulz in the UK: the Prime Minister is out of hospital but hasn't been seen since Monday—my guess is he's hors de combat for at least another two weeks. A quarter of the senior ministers of state are rabid objectivists who actively hate the poor and want them to die, and a majority of the cabinet are still going full steam ahead for a no-deal Brexit transition on January 31st, at which point the UK economy shrinks another 8% overnight.

Really unnecessary. Maybe there are interesting thoughts in this blog post, but adding stuff like this doesn't lend me to take you seriously.

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Re:“It'll all be over by Christmas” (No it won't) by everyone on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:34AM (#22897796)

I find his style of writing quite elegant. He gets his point across, vividly, in a highly terse way.

Though I agree this article is BS. Where are your references man? where is your data?

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Re:“It'll all be over by Christmas” (No it won't) by ceilingcorner on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:37AM (#22897814)

In no way whatsoever is that writing style elegant, terse, or vivid. It’s an angry puerile rant.

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Re:“It'll all be over by Christmas” (No it won't) by everyone on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:40AM (#22897834)

?? Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

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Re:“It'll all be over by Christmas” (No it won't) by goatinaboat on Friday April 17, 2020 @07:51AM (#22898181)

A quarter of the senior ministers of state are rabid objectivists who actively hate the poor and want them to die

It’s ironic that so many authors who hate Ayn Rand fall into exactly the same trap as her: start with their own politics then attempt to construct a story around it in which it saves the day/country/entire universe.

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