I'll side with him on almost all of that. UT, Limey, F3, BigV, and Griff are absolutely weak minded fools. Hell, I've seen each one of them if not completely change their opinion, then at least consider the other side's argument. That's totally weak minded. Aliantha though??? Hell, she's never once changed her opinion. That's strength right there.

I don't really think this is all about Merc. I know some do, but that's really not my take on it at all.

Maybe you're right about this just being the way political discussion now works more generally.

Just to be absolutely clear: all I have done is express my frustration with a recurring problem as I percieve it. I am not, nor have I ever, suggesting that this be dealt with by increasing moderation or getting out the ban hammer.

*chuckles*

I see what ya did thar.

commie.

Dana, I find it extremely disingenuous that you continue to accuse me of "refusing to engage" an issue, when I've made myself perfectly clear.

Here, just as in real life, as soon as someone begins down the path of whining and complaining about things, wanting God or the government to swoop in and solve all their problems for them, instead of making an attempt to practice some self-reliance and personal responsibility, this registers for me as a blank spot in my brain that literally doesn't exist. I'll say it again: Don't know. Don't care. Leave me out of it.



Bonus Content, "How Self-Policing Works": When you post asinine bullcrap, I ignore you!

Flint this whole thing got stirred up because of your post to Jill. It pissed off a lot of people and they spoke up about it. Deal with it.

Fat Cat!

That's fine. But don't expect me to deal with it in a context of something that I neither know nor care about. Leave me out of your foolish, weak-minded, childish nonsense and don't expect me to fall for the old "I'm leaving" routine. If you're leaving, leave.

As far as I can tell nobody is expecting that. But it is pretty petty of you to call people weak-minded, foolish, and childish just because they expect discourse to be a little more civil than in what you exhibited in that post to Jill. And of course what Merc does. That isn't what I call a good example of adult conversation.

As far as I can tell, nobody has dragged you into this thread, nor have they forced you to participate in the discussion.

You don't care about it why are you still here? Leave us alone to discuss our foolish, weakminded childish nonsense in peace.

To paraphrase a flippant comment (as a joke of course): you started it.

Nobody is asking anybody else to deal with this for them. You may have made yourself perfectly clear but you're making yourself clear on a tangential point.

Did I really?

Did I not do the flippant comment thing correctly?

Oh you did it splendidly. I was responding in kind.