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I was hoping you might let me know what honorific(s), if any, you’d prefer I use with your name. I often prefer to address people as Sir or Madame, or whatever is fitting. If you provide two or more, I was hoping you might offer (and I mean this jovially) a “*removed*-grade you” honorific as well. Though I do not understand you well enough, it’s my honor to think about what you have to say, [Honorific] Impassionata. Neither here nor there, but among my technical suggestions, I have gently argued for several years with Sir [[Anders Aamodt]] about what I expect in the construction of his platform (including part of what it means to respect you, which I demand). I cannot say he has listened as carefully as I’d [[hope]], but I can say what he’s building is extremely difficult to do well (and, he gets a lot right where so few do, imho). If you have the time and inclination, I’d like to know what you think about this platform we’re on, and what you might wish for.
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Just because you are following these guidelines doesn't mean you are participating in fair play, and just because you break one of these guidelines doesn't mean you're in the wrong. Because (for instance) sometimes the technically correct point is the salient point.
One of the problems of our political times is this confusion about ceremony. The dissident right, comprising the portion of the 'right' literate enough to participate in discourse and the chief driver in 'extremely online' politics through their stalwart refusal to believe that they had been duped into supporting or providing cover for a fascist movement, often relies on this deference to *simulacrum* as a means of *negating* allegations that January 6th was, for instance, an insurrectionary act. Such a person -- and there are many -- has become sufficiently confused by the 'artificial' nature of the narrative implanted within the protestor so as to somehow ignore what that narrative induced said individual to *do*. Baudrillard is popular among these types. They are not truly illiterate. They can actually see the distortion of the spectacular mirage! They are *markedly* anti-consumerist. But there are no LARPs. There are only Augmented Reality Games.
Behold, One Voice From Four: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkOt10eJ7rQ
Last I saw it was headed East.