Posted on 12/07/2013 9:38:07 AM PST by WXRGina
The very problem is debate, discussion and the expression of different points of view. Perhaps war should be tried letting leftist people know it is serious and the time for play is over.
I don’t deal drugs at all.
Spot-on!
ACTUALLY ... this happens a whole lot on Free Republic. It’s not limited to the liberal mind. You can see all sorts of personal and vicious attacks on this forum.
I think one can viciously attack ideas and philosophies. That’s okay. But inevitably, if the disagreement continues for very many rounds of posting - it will devolve into attacks on the person making the comment.
And this doesn’t have to be attacks on those who are more on the liberal side, but it happens to those who are conservative, here on this board.
And then there are the snide and snarky remarks.
Also ... there are those who won’t take a thread seriously and instead make it devolve into a joke-fest - or those who make totally nonsensical remarks.
It’s the same on all forums and not just Free Republic — so it is apparently a “human condition” that no one can seem to get away from.
That day is probably on the way.
YEP! True, so true!
I try to keep it to a minimum but sometimes I slip...
I used to debate on the internet....I learned better.
I think it may be “in the air.” I express war and revolution in front of people and receive a neutral to an approval response rather than an outright rejection. I do not mean to say people are waiving their rifles but am saying I believe people are now thinking about it.(Based upon my limited experience.)
Yeah, me, too. A LOT! :-/
We’re shoved into a desperate corner now, under this communist regime. So, we wonder what we’re going to do. Naturally, our thoughts turn “that way.”
Ignore the emotion, ignore the personal attacks, stay on message.
Return it in equal measure but be sure to SMILE!!
There is a certain level of that but if you read the comments section on any news outlet site, youtube videos, and even facebook, there is an unwillingness to agree even on basic facts. It starts from a falsehood and devolves into name calling.
Invariably, the “apolitical” musicians on facebook who post some Obamalovefest thing about Obamcare or Same Sex Marriage or Abortion to their wall (or more pointedly lead off with a slam on Ted Cruz for “shutting down the government”) then act surprised when some of their “followers”/”friends” try to interject some counter viewpoint into the discussion.
“Sit down and shut up” has been the spoken liberal mantra since at least the PC 1990s when Bill Clinton publicly uttered them.
I guess this site will always have snarkies like him.
I am PROFOUNDLY glad that I don't know him or that he doesn't live next door to me.
If one side will never concede a point in a debate (and as in the 2012 debate, the moderator was lying on behalf of one of the participants and attacked the GOP debater), then such communication is pointless.
A rigged debate is a rigged election. All of the moderators come from the same political side and share views with the Democrat candidate. The American public deserves better.
The entire perspective of “what are the top issues of the day” and “what is the correct solution” are cast by the framing of the questions.
SNOPES has shown they can turn a “rumor” into FALSE, TRUE, or HAZY based on how they frame the synopsis. Distract, divide, pile on half-truths to discredit other facts/claims.
There’s one in every crowd. Some posters (and trolls) seem to gravitate to attacking a specific individual poster, not (just) for the content of a current post, but some long imaged personal grudge.
There is this guy in the White House who keeps giving me “the finger” anytime for any reason. I would like to remove him from his job but the Senate and House “leaders” are giving me the finger too!
What to do?
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