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DiogenesLamp: "See? It's this unnecessary commentary that makes your long winded posts so tedious to read.
This is why I often skip your writing.
I don't want to wade through a bunch of ad hominems that don't impress anyone to get to whatever point you are trying to make."

But Kalamata's posts are awash in ad hominems, so you should not feel sorry when he gets back what he dishes out.
More important, like all Democrats, our Lost Causers' thinking is often pathological (pro-Confederate, anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-Republican, etc.) and so correcting your facts and reasons really only treats the symptoms, not your underlying psychosis.

Of course nobody here is qualified to deal with Democrat pathologies, but we can at least point in the direction we think they originated, and in Kalamata's case that seems pretty clearly his politically abused childhood.

Yes, DiogenesLamp is a different story, beginning with the fact that you are usually quite good about not attacking other FReepers with ad hominems.
That suggests you likely weren't abused as a child, politically, in the same way Kalamata seems to have been.
So, if it wasn't childhood anger that drove you insane, what was it?
Well, my best guess is the second most powerful human emotion, sometimes said to defeat the most powerful (anger), and often attributed to why people "lose it" -- love.
I'm guessing there was a pretty Southern girl who stole your heart and would not give it back, and so to please her you'd do just about anything, right?

My mother was such a girl and my Dad didn't stand a chance... ;-) They lived a long life together and raised a big family, but Mom's original family were Southern Unionists and so my Dad didn't have to go nuts to please her.

Think about that -- not everyone south of the Mason Dixon buys into Lost Cause lies.
Plenty of other fish in that sea.

>>DiogenesLamp wrote: “See? It’s this unnecessary commentary that makes your long winded posts so tedious to read. This is why I often skip your writing.
I don’t want to wade through a bunch of ad hominems that don’t impress anyone to get to whatever point you are trying to make.”
>>BroJoeK wrote: “But Kalamata’s posts are awash in ad hominems, so you should not feel sorry when he gets back what he dishes out.”

Don’t let Joey fool you. His posts are always deceptive. Joey and a few other freepers get very defensive when their ideology is threatened, and they irrationally resort to ad hominems and aspersions, rather than defending their ideology with data.

Joey also accuses others of doing what he does. If you trace our conversation back to the beginning, you will find Joey initially throwing ad hominems at me, while I simply threw them back at him.

Mr. Kalamata

But Kalamata's posts are awash in ad hominems, so you should not feel sorry when he gets back what he dishes out.

I skip over his ad hominems too. I find some of the quotes he posts quite interesting, and so I often go to the trouble to look them over when I see them.

Also, "Someone else does it too!" is not a good argument. One person's bad behavior does not make another person's bad behavior acceptable.

Yes, DiogenesLamp is a different story, beginning with the fact that you are usually quite good about not attacking other FReepers with ad hominems.

Well thank you for noticing. I generally don't have any desire to cast fellow Freepers as bad people. I know that the vast majority of people on this website are good, decent upstanding individuals who are a credit to their communities, and though I and they may disagree about various subjects from time to time, I do not regard any of these people to be motivated by bad impulses.

When all is said and done, we are all on the same side.

I'm guessing there was a pretty Southern girl who stole your heart and would not give it back, and so to please her you'd do just about anything, right?

My woman is from San Diego. I guess that is south of the Mason/Dixon line, isn't it? :)

And while i'm at it, she has a pretty good resemblance to Elizabeth Montgomery, and in fact her last name was "Montgomery." Her dad was Elizabeth's cousin.