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I think "Right Wing Troll Ejected from Forum" is just wrong. It would be far better if we just tried to discuss the issues vigorously and honestly. I would like to see this forum survive and prosper, and it can't if people keep picking fights for the sake of picking fights.
Steve G is not the only one doing this, just the most recent. But seriously, if we can't discuss important matters without constantly stooping to fourth-grade schoolyard stuff, maybe we should just shut it down.
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which is why I headed the body text with: Read the article, not just the headlines.
Far too many threads contain nothing but brief hollow-headed myths which are cooked up by "news organizations" and commentators in order to give their believers one sentence talking points which they insist are "facts".
I spoke with an old acquaintance of mine recently whodropped such a capsule thought on me. I said, "That's not true." He replied, "It's a fact."
I then ran him down the long list of strange and wonderful winger talking points I have seen here and he repeated them almost verbatim. I said, "Don't listen to Limbaugh." He told me he didn't. "Then how about right wingers on WABC and WOR hate radio?" BINGO.
It's scary seeing people you know parroting the same "facts" word for word in politics. BTW, I have a friend who does exactly the same thing with leftie stuff.They listen to enough to make themselves comfortable and then shut down.
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Can we stop being deliberately provocative please? wrote:
What Commie part of America are you from, boy? The faggot east coast or the gay left coast?
Good Lord! Now "fag**ot" is a bad word 'round these parts.
I'm gonna' try spellin' it: F A G G O T.
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I usually agree with you, Gutenberg, and Steve G is a common purveyor of unfunny provocative thread titles (and content) that border on trolling. I also find it annoying when people use thread titles to mislead or contain no hint of the content (e.g. "Is this true" or "What do you think of this?"). However, in this specific instance I think that the particular thread title was actually funny in light of the content, which is highly unusual and thus a high water mark for Steve G.
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Absent provocations this could place could become a desert.
