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[–]cunninglingus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think he responds to trainwrecks, restoring a rational train of thought back to its natural trajectory, or tracks.

It's sadly common on Saidit for many to attack the occasional person who disagrees with the hivemind, with a range of dumb accusations.

It also takes two or more to tango, so to speak: it's possible to drag down the pyramid of debate ONLY when others respond to the accused 'forum slider'. Only if there are more than one or two responses can there be an apparent trajectory of dragging down the discussion.

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restoring a rational train of thought back to its natural trajectory

keep dreaming shills

[–]jet199 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Nope.

He literally responded to a post about Epstein with 100 unrelated posts about Trump.

Derailment, and specifically to distract people from child abuse.

It's whataboutery every time. Nothing of value added.

And if a lot of people call it out they aren't also as much to blame. This is just narcissistic manipulation.

[–]cunninglingus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'll look for it. I have not seen the whataboutery.

I also see Epstein and Trump relatively close friends, or colleagues, within a similar circle of abusive colleagues.

EDIT: I've now looked through his comments and I see no whataboutism. What I do see are good arguments and evidence, in general.

Now as I read the comments here for /u/HongKongPhooey 's complaint, my one comment on this is: encouraging others to join you in bitching about users who have different opinions is bad for Saidit. It's brigading.