{"id":85414,"date":"2023-06-22T06:51:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85414"},"modified":"2023-06-22T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:55:27","slug":"master-debaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85414","title":{"rendered":"Master Debaters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>  At some point over the last five or six years, Big Gun Control &#8211; a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Left &#8211; decided they were done trying to debate second amendment rights groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  Its hard to fault them on their reasoning.   Every time they have tried to debate the issue against a \u201cnear pair opponent\u201c in the past 35 years, they have fared incredibly badly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the flameout of the mascist establishment over Dr. George Hotez crab walking away from a challenge to debate Robert F Kennedy, Junior, the entire the left&#8217;s noise machine has switched into full gaslighting mode.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After two solid years of being busted using power, instead of fact to shut down debate on issue after issue after issue &#8211; on Fomite spread, the Wuhan Lab origin story, on vaccines preventing spread, and on and on &#8211; suddenly not only will they not debate, but&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;&#39;Debate me&#39; has become a bad faith propaganda tool for the right, designed to legitimize lies &amp; target critics for harassment. It\u2019s ripped from the right&#39;s &#39;free speech&#39; playbook, which demands bad actors get access to all platforms &amp; audiences &#8211; or else&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Qlig7swdi\">https:\/\/t.co\/7Qlig7swdi<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1671622037071093761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;debate itself is bad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, when you&#8217;ve been wrong about climate change guns, transgenderism, welfare, the Soviet Union and pretty much everything else, I suppose avoidance is understandable.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But let&#8217;s call this what it is.  Gaslighting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Left is America&#8217;s narcissistic abusive spouse. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point over the last five or six years, Big Gun Control &#8211; a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Left &#8211; decided they were done trying to debate second amendment rights groups. Its hard to fault them on their reasoning. Every time they have tried to debate the issue against a \u201cnear pair opponent\u201c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-karen","category-big-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85420,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85414\/revisions\/85420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}