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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExhibit A of "Like-Minded Individuals to Reach Common Ground With", Folks:
http://discussionist.com/1015183142#post63And in case the post gets hidden, it says, and I quote:
I mean, COME on. Are you freaking KIDDING me? It's bad enough that site's loaded with economically stupid Dunning-Krugertarians and mean low-info bastards who name themselves after ammo . . . and now THIS nonsense?
Can we now say that this is a bad idea once and for all? Sometimes stupid is just stupid.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)It seems like a good place to go if you want a fight. But some people do want a fight.
Bryant
Cirque du So-What
(25,933 posts)I purposely avoid associating with bigots in real-life, so why should I actively seek them out for 'discussion' on the internet? Their minds are utterly closed anyway, and from what I've observed, they derive trollish satisfaction from displaying their overt racism.
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)cheering the deaths of Palestinian children. I made my last comment there that night, and I won't be back.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)So not only are they embracing trolls, their sewery agenda is welcomed. Amazing.
Let's bring the worst of Yahoo.com and try to get them on a common plane with people that possess a brain stem. SMELL THE SUCCESS!!
Nay
(12,051 posts)expose myself to such idiocy. If I wanted to do that, I'd just watch Fox, fer chrissakes.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,572 posts)Supposedly more conversation with someone like that is...important or something. I dunno.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)They got Randians, Austrian School crackpots, circular-argument-tossing libertarians and troglodytes who crawled out of a sewer instead.
Talk about your all-time classic backfires.
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,572 posts)...any relatively unmoderated board would tell them that "reasonable" debate really isn't possible between such diametrically opposed viewpoints. Especially when one side thinks it's just peachy keen to want the other side dead.
Randians and troglodytes are not interested in debate. They're interested in yelling at us.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)How does the saying go . . . "It doesn't take so much a leap of faith, but a hard tumble down Mount Dumbass"?
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)and modern day "conservatives" are at least at the Birch Society position on the political spectrum or even more regressive that that.
Hell, the center and right of the Democratic party are Reaganites without the southern strategy.