He pisses the right people off. Also, I bet he knew the 'Arabic numberal' thing, given the fact that he has a fact-checking editor that keeps him out of trouble.
While that's always a good sign, and I've used that argument myself for sure, I agree with AoV; it's not always good enough. There are people who piss the right people off, who are absolute monsters. That's not Asmon, to be clear, but just an example.
For me, pissing the right people off should be a secondary bonus, not the core argument. You do good work and piss the right people off? Awesome. And, to some extent, that is Asmon. But, as some people have pointed out, he also has some big failings. I don't hate the dude - I actually think he's pretty likeable - but he's definitely got some issues.
That is one of the issue. A lot of those liberals that got mad over the Iraq war are now Conservatives - including myself. One of the reasons why what is going on with Iran now and Venezuela sucks hard. There is literally no anti-war party.
Even though I had read Walt and Mearsheimer, I did not even consider that a real possibility until I saw the Ted Cruz interview. It's hard to believe that the tail would be wagging an elephant this hard.
He pisses the right people off. Also, I bet he knew the 'Arabic numberal' thing, given the fact that he has a fact-checking editor that keeps him out of trouble.
While that's always a good sign, and I've used that argument myself for sure, I agree with AoV; it's not always good enough. There are people who piss the right people off, who are absolute monsters. That's not Asmon, to be clear, but just an example.
For me, pissing the right people off should be a secondary bonus, not the core argument. You do good work and piss the right people off? Awesome. And, to some extent, that is Asmon. But, as some people have pointed out, he also has some big failings. I don't hate the dude - I actually think he's pretty likeable - but he's definitely got some issues.
He has terrible taste in movies. That's for sure.
There are limits to "lolz liberals mad" as politics. Liberals got very mad over the Iraq War. Turns out, they were right.
There are also limits to pretending to be retarded as politics, if that is what he was doing.
That is one of the issue. A lot of those liberals that got mad over the Iraq war are now Conservatives - including myself. One of the reasons why what is going on with Iran now and Venezuela sucks hard. There is literally no anti-war party.
They were right to oppose the war but wrong about why it was happening. It wasn't a war for oil. It was a war for mohel.
Even though I had read Walt and Mearsheimer, I did not even consider that a real possibility until I saw the Ted Cruz interview. It's hard to believe that the tail would be wagging an elephant this hard.
The Iraqi war was several layers of dumb.