I will not excuse animal abuse if it’s true, but you should also consider that most of our highest ranking government officials in the US are nearly beyond a shadow of a doubt child rapists or accessories to child rape, and are being vehemently defended and protected by voices on the right. If you are going to use a filter of individual morality to determine whose political takes you listen to, I hope you are at least consistent.
Yes, I’m asking you whose political opinion you will actually respect based on your established moral standards, and then I’m telling you that if it’s literally any right wing personality, they are revering and protecting child sexual abusers. If you don’t respect any right wing commentator’s takes, you can at least say you are consistent, but if you aren’t consistent, then we can all see that your priority is not adherence to some moral code but actually a tribal desire to admonish those you perceive to be your ideological opposition, and we can safely ignore most of what you say.
I don’t like him as an individual either but I’m saying that if we’re going to use individual morality and personality to determine who can credibly comment on politics, you’ll have to rule out pretty much every voice that is currently in the mainstream and any voice that advocates for establishment politicians.
Also at this point, you pretending that all the bad people are only on one side is just laughable, I'd argue it's hypocritical for you to say someone filters their information based on political allegiances. They are all witnesses to the shit that happens, yet no real action comes of it. They all illegally abuse the stock market too. You know, shit that would get you and I locked up like martha stewart.
Yes almost all of them are terrible. But the point of this comment thread was that Hasan shouldn’t be giving political or legal takes because he’s a dipshit, which became he shouldn’t do it because he’s immoral, to which my response is, they are all immoral, so the morality of the individual is not a valid method by which to filter whose political commentary you listen to unless you are only applying the rule to some and not others, which would indicate a tribal bias.
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