Seymour The Modern Sophist
When you need an argument that makes no sense but sounds really good to "right-wing" slaves, call David Seymour.
Recently, I went to a Whangarei District Council meeting with Ngunguru rate-payers. God only knows why they still continue to pay rates to a “kind” mafia. A mafia that is a four-decade-long failure to competency. As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. Just like you can’t make people listen to those who pay attention because of their Conspiracy Theorist branding. The Whangarei District Council, much like the government, is a middle-man organisation that takes funds from you in the form of rates. They also take on loans from an obscure lending agency called Local Government Funding NZ. They use these funds to keep all your public infrastructure in good nick and develop necessary infrastructure that serves the public. If they do a really good job, everything is maintained well, things you want are built, and your costs will either stay the same or go down over time.
If they do that, they justify their existence, if not, they have no justification for their existence.
None of that is happening, to be precise the roads are falling to bits, things you don’t need are being built, things you need have had their refining capabilities stripped, and inflation is worse than ever. Right now, you’re being told to blame the red and green policy marketing team, the tomatoes and the watermelons. Who is telling you to do that? The grapefruit and bilberry marketing team. While the kumara marketing team alienates our people from the rest of the country by cloaking their white supremacist inside with victimhood. The rest of them are red on the inside because it doesn’t matter how they market policies to you, it’s still foreign Communism, foreign Wokeism, and inverted religion. It’s the religion of power centralization combined with hedonism. In that Ngunguru council meeting, I asked a dumb question. I asked the chief financial officer to prove they were not wasting money on things their constituents didn’t want. He replied, rather predictively, “I can’t prove a negative”.
This is the answer I was after for the inevitable article I would write about Epsom’s resident modern sophist. David Seymour.
To explain the confusing enigma of a midget that is David Seymour, one needs to know modern sophistry. In short, it is a twisting of language, a flipping of the natural order of the burden of proof. Instead of requiring evidence for your ridiculous claims, you make a self-benefitting claim knowing people will try to rebut said claim with their hard-to-prove claims. Once you’ve achieved that sleight-of-hand, you insist that they must prove their claims while you avoid proving your initial claim. David Seymour does this all the time, he uses deception and charisma to obscure holes in his opinion. Moreover, he takes attention off his hole-ridden claim and places it on your poorly-communicated rebuttal.
David Seymour confronted by Lee Williams who was sacked from Synlait over his YouTube channel - NZ Herald
The clearest takeaway from all of David Seymour’s confrontations with Libertarians and Conservatives is Seymour’s affinity for idiotic mob rule. Everything he says is in alignment with the tactics of modern sophistry and logic subversion. He is the influencer of the mob that claims ownership over spaces. Seymour supports slavery that does not meet its obligations to the law, he just supports it coming from those who “own” spaces, not from those who work in those spaces. His use of freedom is just spin, he doesn’t support freedom any more than the other extreme, the watermelon Greens. They support mob rule through the influencers of culture and he supports mob rule through the owners of workspaces, both have no respect for the narrow path of the law. Essentially, he’s a dog whistle for the promotion of slaver slaves over the slaves of slaver slaves. He’s the mindset that takes over once the useful idiots have finished popularising slavery and Communism through culture.
David Seymour is not the bastion of reason and accuracy, he and his followers are the bastardisation of it. To prove it, I will do what real men do, real examples of reason and accuracy, I’ll respond to his claims directly. Taxpayers should have the right to put conditions on the recipients of taxpayer funds, but only if those conditions do not undermine their rights without informed assent. Who gave the government the mandate to borrow intensely for a pointless symptom response that did not meet its obligations to our existing national response plan and well-considered safety standards? No one. What costs the taxpayer more? Jabs that don’t work or people receiving their citizen benefits? Do the taxpayers pay for people’s benefits? You should look into that, the answer might surprise you. Should we all have to pay the government’s debt back, if they took it on through fraud?
Soon slavery will be popularised for the good of the economy, but it’s not for that at all. It is so the Corporate State can pretend to pay back all the debt they took on for their ideological direction. A debt they took on with the support of this conveniently stupid wrangler of “right-wing” minds. Here is the reality for all of you “right-wingers”, who claim that they value logic over compassion. If that’s the hill you are willing to die on, so be it, but if reason and the preservation of the economy is the values you claim to uphold, why are you supporting someone who undermines your values to benefit himself and the organisation he works for? If you stand on the hill of reason, then nonsense should be the thing you are opposed to, you shouldn’t be unconsciously supporting it.
The public’s compassion was jabbed to death over the last six years, if we allow reason to be destroyed by modern sophistry then there will be nothing conscious left in the public. The most popular influencers are leading the public’s minds to oblivion. They have convinced them to believe things that aren’t true or kind, and because of that, they will be the architects of their own demise. If they don’t snap out of it what will happen? Demand will crash, supply will be monopolised by those who manipulate the public and everyone else will be beholden to powerful morons. You may think that automation and very wealthy individuals will be an adequate replacement for competent workers and middle-class consumers, but do you only think that because modern sophistry convinced you to think that?
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If you are looking for any reading to add to your list, I would recommend Lysander Spooner, Franz Oppenheimer, Murray Rothbard and Hans Hermann Hoppe.
Seymour is a snake in the grass, and sophistry is all he has. You summed the creep up. The saddest thing is that he claims to be an expert epistemologist.