Tyler Piteo-Tarpy
2 min readJan 15, 2021

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Just what do you consider to be a plank in the platform of “the Radical Left”?

My whole essay is talking about the platform of the Radical Left.

Perhaps your idea of effective diplomacy equates to a showy press conference.

Nope. As I said, I consider diplomacy to be effective when it results in such successes as peace deals with Israel, getting Europe to fund NATO again, and moving closer to recognizing Taiwan as an ally.

China has been the big winner from Trump’s policies. Over here we’ve got China breathing down our neck harder than ever thanks to Trump.

I think I agree with you on this, but I can admit the good he did as well as the bad.

If you think that rearranging words has any relevance to what’s really going on in the world, well that’s good for you, but honestly, switching Left and Right in an essay doesn’t equate to any sort of analysis in my book.

What does this even mean? I wasn’t trying to do any sort of analysis in the first place, the essay was just about making a point. Was that point not clear enough? Do you understand the point but just disagree with it?

I thought it was a pretty simple point: if you wouldn’t want your political opponents to do something to you, maybe don’t do that thing to your political opponents.

Applied, that looks like asking the Radical Left if they would like it if the Right called them Communists and then censored them for it. If the answer is no, then maybe the Radical Left shouldn’t call the Right Nazis and then censor them for it.

That’s it. That’s all my essay was about.

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Tyler Piteo-Tarpy

Essayist, poet, screenwriter, and comer upper of weird ideas. My main focus will be on politics and philosophy but when I get bored, I’ll write something else.