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My Reply to Louis Rossmann’s reply to a Comment on his Washington Right to Repair hearing – SB 5799 Video

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Feel free to watch Louis Rossmann’s video through here.

Someone commented:

Life must be miserable as a lobbyist. You can’t speak with any passion or personality, you have to just read off of a sheet of paper that has been given to you. You’re basically an empty shell of a human being with no soul…how the fuck do these people look at themselves in the mirror.
Louis Rossmann replied:
I think I would do a great job as an anti-repair lobbyist and I think it would be GREAT fun. I swear to God, sometimes I want to publish videos that say “here is how I would answer this question, and respond to the Senators with a genuine answer from the opposite side.” I do this with friends every now and then and it is really fun, but then also it becomes sad, because you realize that people who have been doing this for 30 to 40 years are still so garbage at a junior high school level of debating and public speaking. I could argue against this bill while citing patriotic tropes in a genuine and authentic manner. I can come off as authentic, without reading from a script, while arguing against it. Sometimes it really is tempting for me to publish videos that say this is what I would say if I was an anti repair lobbyist. But, I do fear that at some point one of these dodo birds might actually see my video and use it to reproduce what I said effectively, so I don’t do this in public. The last thing I want to do is show up to debate myself. :-) You can’t effectively argue what you believe in if you can’t flip a coin and argue the other side as well.
My reply:
When I do that, people say: “I talk too much,” and then they wonder why I’m very good at what I do. I personally think there’s a fine line between contradicting oneself, and challenging oneself to come up with better arguments for one’s case. Thing is, there’s a lot of NPCs out there, so it’s easy to know what they’re thinking, and what they’re going to say, and it’s a habit of mine to save them the time and energy of having to say something so predictable. Even back in elementary school, I could tell, for instance, when everyone was going to misspell a word. Not long ago, I asked a good tech-savvy buddy of mine if he knew someone who’s contacted their ISP before to get a PTR record set up for a self-hosted mail server with 100% email deliverability. Little did I know that my buddy had no idea what I was talking about when he started to explain to me the basics of DNS until he decided to do a little bit of research on reverse DNS, and PTR records. Thing is, I don’t blame people for being ignorant, but I do find it odd when someone tries to school me when I know a little bit more than they do about something.

Another comment I left directly on the video regarding anti-repair arguments:

I think that nothing hinders innovation more than worrying too much about protecting one’s own so-called intellectual property to the point where it leads to consumers getting scammed by making everything around said intellectual property seem esoteric, and dangerous. I can’t help but think these anti-repair arguments seem religious even; preying on people’s ignorance to scam them for life.