No personal attacks.
Period.
To abdicate ground, be complacent in the face of obvious rule breaking, or to excuse violating behavior is both wrong and a weak posture. We should never give up by half.
Leftists do these tactics consistently to us (and so do abusive people in life) and yet we keep backing up, ignoring, pretending to ignore, comprising, excusing, apologizing and continiously losing strength. The strength and truth of this forum resides in it's members who donate, contribute through posting and encouraging to support this site. Should this continue to falter as it has been trending, then this forum may fall one day. It is the rules and the conservative values (dare I say paleo-conservative values), which are the core of this site. When we give ground to the leftists, the abusers of the rules, the ne-cons and liars we may lose this platform and there are posters here which are directly, overtly and even niavely contributing, via their own egos, to this very goal.
Breaking rules have and should have consequences.
Live not by lies.
Stand for the rules.
We've become a nation of wimps doing all the things mentioned above and we are doing it this forum when we give in to bullies. Just as we are a Constitutional Republic, based on law, so too is this forum an agreement about rules [law]. Should we abdicate to the lack of enforcement of law and even rules, we too become ungovernable and weak. This is a matter of loss and I, FOR ONE,, am tired of giving high ground to reprobate minds and law/rule breakers. This very heart of the matter (live not by lies) is the center of the q threads.
I, FOR ONE and if it is only me,standing alone, will fight for rules and law against all who violate.
It is like defunding the police, or letting criminals off.
IF rule and law are not enforced, then they become meaningless relics when we whimper and scream "injustice!" and then, one day, we will have no argument and no justice, because we “excused” the rules/laws to placate our abusers. The rules/laws will be used against us. In a grand view this is actually happening even now and while we scream against it happening, we placate it's plan by receding ground. This must stop!
LIVE NOT BY LIES!
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