Merrick wrote: It's a real pleasure to see how people reacted to Karl Max's provocations. Handofdave, you handled him really well, very measured, thoughtful, nothing insulting at all. So you made me laugh out loud when after he'd gone you wrote
handofdave wrote: Good riddance to the jerk.
I confess to being intolerant of guys like him in the end. I just don't have any patience for people who's litmus test for further conversation involves one-upsmanship... the lefter-than-you-ever-will-be pretensions... the obsession with announcing academic credentials... etc.
Add a pinch of basic rudeness, a dash of elitism, a cup of garden-variety 'death to America' rhetoric and you've got Karl Max.
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