* Your opponent has publicly taken a stance on the issue, and even if they didn’t have a pre-existing stake in the issue that was rationalized into this stance, by this point they’ve invested their name into it. They’ve already made their mind up.

I doubt either is her real name.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/25/1980613/-AntiFa-is-NOT-a-movement-of-Anarchists-or-Communists

The fact her email is a gmail account sort of indicates she does not want someone finding her real name and email.

I will waste no more google foo on her.

You don’t, you eat them.

https://bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeffers-theory-stupidity-evil/

As the author of this essay observes:

“Debating an idiot is like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.”

“[T]he stupid person is a slippery opponent. They will not be beaten by debate or open to reason. What’s more, when the stupid person has their back against the wall — when they’re confronted with facts that cannot be refuted — they snap and lash out.” (Picture AOC and her friends having meltdowns in front of the rest of Congress.)

Most people on the left who read this post will automatically assume that its author is talking about *conservatives* — how could they believe otherwise since they know that they are the “smart” people who want to fight racism, promote equity, and save the planet? Indeed, the entire subtext of left wing media — and PBS / NPR in particular — is that their viewers / listeners are better and smarter than the people who don’t have All Things Considered / Weekend Edition pledge drive coffee mugs on their desks.

The biggest of the left’s Big Lies is that conservative precepts and principles are completely unsupported either by reason or historical experience, and they should be accorded no standing in any kind of debate about government policy or what might constitute a good society. And, if you don’t agree with this, you are “stupid” and filled with hate. Only after having a “come to Marx” moment (cf., St. Paul redirected on the Road to Serfdom), it seems, can one have a conversation with the smart people who know what is best for you.

So how do you reason with pigeons?

You may be thinking of “matin”.

Who morning star is I have no idea.