The "professional left": a bunch of "firebaggers"

[Egalitarian Thug]

49. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.

I've only been here for a year or so, so I've missed a lot that has gone before. Is a DUer running for office?

As for the conversation, I haven't found that to be common at all. Those that I've been involved in have gone one of three ways: We basically agree, work out some finer points and it's over. We disagree on the premise or perception and end it agreeing to disagree. Or the most common in my experience, we are getting to the heart of the issue and someone else jumps in, throws out some insults and/or a non-sequitur and effectively kills it.

The factionalism is what makes the show, IMO. There's a particular group here that obviously practices an organized "mean kids" tactic of alerting on everything certain members post, no matter how insignificant, knowing that a jury will hide anything about 25% of the time. We've all seen truly awful things let slide, while the most innocuous post gets hidden, and it all centers around who wrote it. rather than what was written. (I could give many examples, but that would guarantee this would be hidden)

Anyway, perhaps you could expound on what you are thinking. The site does heavily favor Occupy and I don't see that as a bad thing, but I also believe that Doctors without borders falls into that category as well, so I'm somewhat confused.