mr. david ellis
my friend dellis seems to be launching an all-out war against matt yglesias in the comments:
on this post:
What's wrong with Safire, you ugly Harvard snob? You are both civil libertarians - does that make you "odious" too? Or is only part of you "odious"?Are all of your intellectual opponents "odious"?
Perhaps you haven't arrived at Platonic truth or Hegelian syntheses yet, and your ideological views will change throughout your life. Does this make the future Matthew "odious"?
I for one think your face is odious.
then on this post:
You have the intelligence of an ugly Harvard snob, but the wisdom of my left testicle. Freedom-loving nations have spent a half century building credibility that terrorism won't work. Why all else do you think Israel always responds to terror with force?The Spanish public has destroyed this credibility and have revealed the frightening truth that murdering hundreds of innocents WORKS. For you not to acknowledge that the new truth that terrorism works won't lead to more terrorist actions reveals a disgusting orthodoxy to your bizarre "terrorist model". You really think that for the rest of time there are a fixed number of terrorist attacks, and whether terrorism leads to tangible benefits or not is somehow an endogenous variable?
This is just like the Iraqi war for you. You opposed the Iraqi war and you're happy the terrorists drove our Aznar, and now you're coming up with more and more abstract rationalizations for your pathetic
belief system.I pity you.
having known dellis for about 12 years, i can only say: i take everything he does with a grain of salt. he's weird! and i even went to homecoming with him one year. hear that, dellis? you're weird. but i kind of enjoy your bizarre harrassment.
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yeesh. I love philosophical namedropping as much as the next guy, but is Dellis trying to call the idea of Platonic truth an advanced philosophy, to which Yglesias might aspire? Or is he just using big words to say "the right answer"... in which case the translation is roughly, "u think ur hot shit but l8r youll change your mind asshole and realize what a l4m3r you are BURRRRRN"
Let's get Charles up in this piece. He'll start talking about Foucault, then we can all put on glassy expressions, tune out and go back to talking about reality tv.
for the record, libertarians usually are pretty odious
ellis once told me that his cousin's new job involved making false, ad hominem attacks on independent parties to smear them. and he thought it was a COOL job.
to ellis, ad hominem attacks are the new black.
haha. ellis is truly his own man. his own freaky man.
Hmm, I don't get it. MY's no libertarian and he supported the Iraq war. Dellis ought to concentrate on the ugly part or whatever.
Occasionally someone will come along in MY's comments and really attack him with a bona fide critique, and Jesus Christ, you ought to see the shitstorm that follows. Kid's got acolytes I tell you.
i wouldn't take anything dellis says seriously. i'm like, 75% sure that he's doing this just to stir up shit. of course, the other 25%, who knows?
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