"I like your friend better. The one who said FR tolerates dissent."
It does tolerate dissent. I disagree with people here every day including President Bush. However, that dissent is usually followed by an alternate solution to the issue one is dissenting on.
However, it doesn't tolerate DU trolls who misrepresent themselves as "Republicans" simply to post negative articles. I'm betting you are the latter since you are not "dissenting", you are just posting negative polls that make you feel good.
What these guys don't get is that this is not the DU ... all they ever do there is rant and rave and never offer solutions or say anything positive, that is why it is so easy to tell a troll is sniffing around. I've only been here a short time and can easily spot them because it's just so obvious. The people who've been here for a while can probably smell them as they are registering.