FinziKantini

Uncensored observations on geopolitics. Alter ego of someone respectable.

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

Recalling the June 10 episode of @GurusPod where @ArthurCDent and @C_Kavanagh confidently declared that although Tracey claims to be heterodox/nonpartisan, when it comes down to it he's really just MAGA.

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Donald Trump says America is a land of "carnage" whose institutions are hopelessly corrupt, Third World, riven by rampant fraud, contaminated by scum, elections systemically corrupt, and governed by a Constitution he feels he should be able to suspend whenever it might suit him

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@KILLTOPARTY Have you ever introspected about why almost all of your posts are some variation on the theme of insulting women's looks, cutting them down to size, insisting they're not as hot as they think? Something explains that powerful impulse to tear them down. What is it?

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

Where do we stand on this? I was looking forward to the conversation.

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

UPDATE: Kat Tenbarge got in touch and we will be having a conversation soon. Good for her! Really.

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@henrysgao My doctor doesn't express his hatred for me on social media several times a day. If he did, I would find a new doctor.

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@henrysgao Pure concern trolling, offered purely in bad faith. Why would Chinese policymakers take your advice when you so clearly wish ill on the country and its government?

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@xwanyex Dude, almost all of your tweets are political. You obviously care a great deal about politics, which is fine. Why not just own it instead of trying to act like you're superior to everyone else?

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@mtracey @ryangrim Tracey is so cantankerous he won't even give Ryan Grim a break when he basically repeats Tracey's own arguments. It's gadfly-ism all the way down.

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@MarioNawfal Finally a commentator brave enough to express the unpopular, heterodox opinion that women with big boobs are attractive. The mainstream media wouldn't dare reveal this hidden truth.

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@FralickTim34304 @donaldcclarke If you constantly resort to slimy personal insults (do you prefer that to "ad hominem"?), it's not surprising you're constantly criticized for it. Tripling down on sleaze is one way to respond, I suppose, even though everyone can see you lack the ability to respond on substance.

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@FralickTim34304 @donaldcclarke No one "handed it to me" that you and Don are engaged in slimy ad hominem attack. I noticed that all on my own. And you're still doubling down. Shameless.

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@FralickTim34304 @donaldcclarke Ok you've now confirmed that you're staunchly committed to ad hominem attack and baseless imputation of bad motives, which means this conversation is over.

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@FralickTim34304 @donaldcclarke You are full of arrogant assumptions about other people's motivations and identities. I'm an American, though I have spent a lot of time in China. If you now want to pivot to an actual debate about China, we could do that, but first you need to abandon Don Clarke-style ad hominem

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@FralickTim34304 @donaldcclarke Arrogantly assuming people don't believe what they say, even though you can't possibly know that, is a great excuse for acting like a jerk. But I can assure you that many people do in fact genuinely disagree with you, Don, and the Economist.

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@FralickTim34304 @donaldcclarke Word salad justification for being uncivil and anti-intellectual. "No no no I have a good reason for my peurile name calling. I'm not like the other name callers." You have your narrative and your anti China info. You're not different or better.

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@FralickTim34304 @donaldcclarke Criticism is fine but it should be substantive. Don took the low road of ad hominem attack, and you have joined him down there in the mud. You can style yourselves as brave anti CCP freedom fighters, but we see what you really are: mudslingers.

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@benryanwriter But that assessment would require acknowledging that Owen/Hasan are at least partially right. You're not willing to do that, though, because you've already staked out a strong position that they're bad guys.

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@benryanwriter An honest assessment would be to acknowledge that US-advocated shock therapy in Russia caused enormous harm. You can still think Soviet Communism was bad and that its demise good in the long run, even if US participation made the process more painful than it should have been.

[FinziKantini @FinziKantini]

@benryanwriter As we discussed yesterday, you reached immediately for "he agrees with Putin" after Owen called out your misquote. Not as bad as the misquote, but still bad!