Quote of the Day
I used to have this mental illness where l thought logical arguments could help reason with someone.
maro @ProofofMaro
Posted on X, April 13, 2026
I’m still suffering from the same illness. Sometimes I think I am cured and then a relapse happens.
In the thread for the above post there is the following meme. It makes the suffering from this illness just a little bit easier:
Someone is not going to understand something when their ego, position, status or livelihood requires that they not understand it.
And it occurs to me that someone else can make a lot of money assisting people in not-understanding things.
“I’m still suffering from the same illness.”
Same. I regularly demonstrate that fact around here with John.
Wasn’t it Ann Landers who said it was un-American for 2A advocates to demand that gun control supporters be able to back up their claims with facts?
Close. “No one has the right to destroy another person’s belief by demanding empirical evidence.”
See also https://blog.joehuffman.org/2010/09/25/a-process-failure/