Michael Orton

A person who looks upon human reason as the cornerstone of the American experiment and the foundation of true patriotism.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@KaranStJohn @TheStormRedux Instead of demonstrating that you hate America, why not just admit it?

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@JWashingt1_ @AAWerewolfinNJ @MUSICANDBUILDS Agreed. Our accounts of our lived experiences are inherently subjective, and prone to all sorts of biases. They must be heard and taken into account, without giving them a priori authority. Otherwise, it just becomes another type of Hasty Generalization Fallacy.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@JWashingt1_ @AAWerewolfinNJ @MUSICANDBUILDS I think the core question is whether Ramaswamy's assertions were factual, which they obviously weren't. The problem with Lemon's framing is that our actual experiences and what we perceive them to be can be very different. Particularly if the experience feels traumatizing.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@MUSICANDBUILDS If the goal is to determine what's true, Don's framing doesn't work. Merely experiencing something doesn't mean you've drawn the objectively correct conclusions from it. Since our perceptions are so often inaccurate, asserting one's "lived experience" isn't useful in itself.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@itspatsworld @RankinVirginia That anyone would want a hat from a demonstrably unpatriotic name-caller is a terrible reflection on the state of our country. You're publicly calling the first black VP in our history a "hoe", and far from being embarrassed, you want people to see you doing it. Bizarre.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@itspatsworld We truly are through the looking glass when people who supported the overturning of a free and fair election can refer to themselves as "Real" Americans without the slightest sense of irony.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@TonyHar20794818 @IndianaTones198 Signs saying "Italians [or Irish or Chinese] need not apply" were once quite common, in the US, at least. What her hierarchy of racism reveals is that she sees victim status as a political weapon she's loathe to lose. It only makes victims of discrimination more vulnerable.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@IndianaTones198 Abbott has certainly been subjected to continuing, horrific racist abuse. But asserting a hierarchy of racism is intellectually lazy and manipulative. The fact is that definitions of race change. Italians, Irish, Poles, Russians, Chinese were once regularly referred to as "races"

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@liveuk @ColdNova @mrjamesob 4. What the UK paid the EU was dwarfed by the economic stimulus generated by being a part of one of the world's largest markets.

5. Brexit has actually depressed economic growth. Without that growth, there's not enough revenue to invest in domestic industry.

Brexit was idiocy.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@liveuk @ColdNova @mrjamesob 3. What drives trade is the size of your market, and the goods and services your country can offer. The UK went from being part of a market of 500 million to a market of 68 million. And all the administrative protocols that had made trade smooth for 40 years are gone.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@mehdirhasan He's easily impressed.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@ProudPatriot247 @NoOneYouKnow629 @TheTank912 @RpsAgainstTrump If you're shameless, and being truthful or accurate don't matter to you, then there's nothing to fear. If you feel a normal sense of responsibility to reflect actual reality, it's more challenging. Although I do think Biden should face the press more often.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@LauraLoomer Perhaps it was the Illuminati? If not, I'm sure your fetid imagination will come up with something.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@suzost @KaCurrie_45 @FoxNews Tell us, who is behind this "NWO agenda."

I'm not at all sure you have a clue regarding what's required to be "patriotic" in an American context. But I know that spreading disinformation insults the vision of our Founders.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@Bear96Momma @AdamKinzinger @BasedMikeLee You literally believe in Zombies, so I'm gonna say your ability to perceive reality is uh, unimpressive.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@69WatchingYou69 @JennaDordy @msolurin It's unsurprising that a small % of the population (1.5%) is born with reproductive equipment that doesn't align with their gut sense of their gender. If that can be addressed medically, that's great. But conflating that cohort with the population writ large is nonsensical.

[Michael Orton @orwellsghost12]

@LondonTitan @alison_stewart5 @TrippyPip @LBC @mrjamesob Step 1:
Make a huge mess.

Step 2:
Deflect, dismiss or gaslight when people understandably complain about the mess you've made and how it's affected their lives, . Avoid good-faith engagement on the issue and never, ever admit a mistake, no matter how obvious.