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Comment author: satt 15 June 2013 06:15:34PM 0 points [-]

Even if I concede that "I'm strawmanning one side only a little more than the other" accurately describes what's going on here, which I'm not sure I do, I'm still not sure I endorse it.

Agreed, but Multiheaded's full-throated sarcasm was a disproportionate response.

I assume that if it weren't for the anti-politics site norm there would be more of them; I expect that as this norm gets relaxed (as has been happening for the last year or so, and will likely keep happening)

I feel like there's less political poo flinging on LW now than there was a year ago and two years ago. But I have no firm evidence.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 15 June 2013 06:28:26PM 0 points [-]

Agreed, but Multiheaded's full-throated sarcasm was a disproportionate response.

Not disputing that.
I'm not sure what the "but" is doing there, though.
Is the inappropriateness of VB's comment somehow in tension with the inappropriateness of MH's reply?

I feel like there's less political poo flinging on LW now than there was a year ago and two years ago. But I have no firm evidence.

I'm delighted to hear that. I feel like there's more, but I don't trust my intuitions on the matter and haven't looked into it in a reliable form, so evidence that I might be mistaken makes me feel better.

Comment author: satt 16 June 2013 10:31:05AM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure what the "but" is doing there, though.
Is the inappropriateness of VB's comment somehow in tension with the inappropriateness of MH's reply?

Only rhetorically. I just wanted to emphasize that one needn't endorse unequal strawmanning to find Multiheaded's sarcasm unfair.

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