{"id":4323,"date":"2011-04-25T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2011-04-25T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T11:00:41","slug":"one-of-the-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4323","title":{"rendered":"One of the things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>that has always helped me to keep my cool in difficult situations, was a bit of advice given me by a good friend of mine some time ago. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A warrior&#8221; he said &#8220;Is measured by his adversaries&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;m exactly a warrior, mind you, but you get the point. I don&#8217;t suffer fools and I don&#8217;t engage trolls because I won&#8217;t be thought of as fighting on their anencephalic level. Those people I have chosen personally to rail against are worthy, and may well win. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll keep trying anyway. <\/p>\n<p>Pascal reminds me that conservative\/libertarian types tend to listen to the Rush Limbaughs and Michael Savages of the world, and think, &#8216;we have a voice, too&#8221; and look at things like the release of Atlas as some kind of a turning point in the movement. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m all for anything that brings more people to common sense, but at the end of the day, that is not what this is about, is it, Pascal?  We&#8217;ve looked into the belly of the beast.  My tinfoil notwithstanding, it&#8217;s a quite interesting perspective. What if the whole array of conservative\/libertarian\/wookie media is just an elaborate scam? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that has always helped me to keep my cool in difficult situations, was a bit of advice given me by a good friend of mine some time ago. &#8220;A warrior&#8221; he said &#8220;Is measured by his adversaries&#8221; Not that I&#8217;m exactly a warrior, mind you, but you get the point. I don&#8217;t suffer fools and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}