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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: There is an undue amount of acrimony in this forum [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)19. Good post. We all slip once in a while, especially when we see obvious flame bait posts. Like you, I
agree it's best to stay out of them.
Primary season should be about issues. But the personal attacks on supporters and candidates that we've seen make it difficult to not respond. Sanders, eg, is not a racist and neither are his supporters. But that has been the theme here for months by a small faction who now, thankfully have their own site to go to for this kind of thing. Hopefully that will lessen the nastiness here.
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Yesterday on 50W in Fairfax, VA, I saw a truck with an Obama sticker. On the other side was a
FSogol
Oct 2015
#2
I'm rec'ing just because of the unnecessary and ridiculous personal attack on you this
Number23
Oct 2015
#64
No. I defend myself when attacked and would never apologize or regret doing so.
DemocratSinceBirth
Oct 2015
#12
You can avoid it, I do, by not joining in. Since you posted this, I assume you have decided to
sabrina 1
Oct 2015
#15
Sabrina, I have 60,000 posts so I am sure I have slipped a time or two
DemocratSinceBirth
Oct 2015
#18
Good post. We all slip once in a while, especially when we see obvious flame bait posts. Like you, I
sabrina 1
Oct 2015
#19
Based on your subsequent postings, I now see that your OP was a passive-aggressive ruse.
demmiblue
Oct 2015
#66
"When you congratulate misinformation and disingenuous or factually incorrect statements"
JTFrog
Oct 2015
#37
Says the poster who said Bernie shouldn't jump through hoops for African Americans:
Cali_Democrat
Oct 2015
#49
I for one certainly can't imagine why anyone would be acrimonious on this forum...
Fumesucker
Oct 2015
#58