I am not permitted by the community rules to respond to most of this.
All I will really say is this: I obviously know what I believe politically and why. This whole question “Is Philip a liberal to you or not?” hinges on how you define a liberal, so like I say I am asking you define the label by asking that. I am obviously not asking you to answer questions about my own politics for me. If you’re not sure about any element of my politics that you would need to know in order to answer, you are free to ask, but I think I’ve taken quite a bit of time to try to break it down for you.
You are the one introducing the Schrodinger element into it, and that was actually precisely the point that I was making by asking you to be specific. I actually think it’s pretty interesting that when talking with me, we were mostly going back and forth about facts even if I disagree with a lot of what you said (and you were sort of sensibly sticking with that you genuinely didn’t know if I am a liberal), but once you’re speaking to the echo chamber again you immediately revert to just backhandedly accusing me of being a “liberal” using it as a label meaning “enemy of the clique,” more or less. This intense discussion about whether or not you deem it appropriate to fix the label to me (presumably with the idea that it would be horribly damaging and you’re assuming I want to avoid it) is what I was talking about, too. It is how enemy labels like “communist” and “counterrevolutionary” have functioned in the past, and I don’t think you are realizing exactly how you’re using it when you do.
You’re also misrepresenting tons of stuff that I believe or have said. I won’t list the other examples even though there are a bunch and I spent (for whatever reason) a ton of time digging up old comments of mine to illustrate that you were wrong. Most are debatable in some way or another. All I will say is that it’s instantly objectively verifiable that I never repeatedly claimed I wasn’t a liberal, and now you said I did. You are lying so that you will get approval from your echo chamber. I have no doubt that it will work, probably you and the echo chamber will see it as a win and feel happy about the interaction. Like I said at the very beginning to other people, I would really highly recommend that you take time and reflect on why that is and what function that part of it is serving. In the meantime all the best and take care.
I am not permitted by the community rules to respond to most of this.
All I will really say is this: I obviously know what I believe politically and why. This whole question “Is Philip a liberal to you or not?” hinges on how you define a liberal, so like I say I am asking you define the label by asking that. I am obviously not asking you to answer questions about my own politics for me. If you’re not sure about any element of my politics that you would need to know in order to answer, you are free to ask, but I think I’ve taken quite a bit of time to try to break it down for you.
You are the one introducing the Schrodinger element into it, and that was actually precisely the point that I was making by asking you to be specific. I actually think it’s pretty interesting that when talking with me, we were mostly going back and forth about facts even if I disagree with a lot of what you said (and you were sort of sensibly sticking with that you genuinely didn’t know if I am a liberal), but once you’re speaking to the echo chamber again you immediately revert to just backhandedly accusing me of being a “liberal” using it as a label meaning “enemy of the clique,” more or less. This intense discussion about whether or not you deem it appropriate to fix the label to me (presumably with the idea that it would be horribly damaging and you’re assuming I want to avoid it) is what I was talking about, too. It is how enemy labels like “communist” and “counterrevolutionary” have functioned in the past, and I don’t think you are realizing exactly how you’re using it when you do.
You’re also misrepresenting tons of stuff that I believe or have said. I won’t list the other examples even though there are a bunch and I spent (for whatever reason) a ton of time digging up old comments of mine to illustrate that you were wrong. Most are debatable in some way or another. All I will say is that it’s instantly objectively verifiable that I never repeatedly claimed I wasn’t a liberal, and now you said I did. You are lying so that you will get approval from your echo chamber. I have no doubt that it will work, probably you and the echo chamber will see it as a win and feel happy about the interaction. Like I said at the very beginning to other people, I would really highly recommend that you take time and reflect on why that is and what function that part of it is serving. In the meantime all the best and take care.