Let's Get Rid of the Politics Forum

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by classicman

Thanks Spexxie.

Class, even though you won't do it anymore, you have to admit that it'll still happen.

I dont claim to be an expert, but I think its reasonable to suggest that many of us here have as much expertise on global warming as this guy.....or as much knowledge or understanding of the stimulus programs as guys like Dick Morris and other "experts" who are linked and who are partisan spinmeisters, not policy guys.

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Meh. They would still just call you a stupid asshole for having that opinion.

If a group of Cellarites were sitting in a bar discussing global warming or health care or the economy ("pass the peanuts....where's the waitress...hey, did you hear on the news today...."), there would be no links, no flooding the discussion with outside opinions....

First one to scream asshole, pays for the beer.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Class, even though you won't do it anymore, you have to admit that it'll still happen.

If you are asking if I'll call an asshole an asshole, You're damn right I will.

Currently he and tommy-boy are on ignore.

Originally Posted by classicman

If you are asking if I'll call an asshole an asshole, You're damn right I will.

Currently he and tommy-boy are on ignore.

Ah....its ok for you to call someone an asshole...but expressing an opinion that you are narrow-minded, when you criticize widely accept govt data as biased, is a personal attack.

No double standard there.

[monster]

The double-standard is the essence of good education. Do as I say, not as I do.

now, back to the topless women...

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by classicman

If you are asking if I'll call an asshole an asshole, You're damn right I will.
...

Calling someone an asshole for being an asshole is one thing. Calling someone an asshole because you disagree with them is wrong.

A wise man once said:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Gosh. In this deeply fractured society, it is now an option to believe that the other side is not just incorrect, not just wrong, not even just stupid, but actually broken.

Believe what you want. And then get ready for the twister.

We can't survive like this. We can't function like this. We can't live our lives believing that everybody else is a broken, sick fuck. It's not gonna work. We can't educate our children, we can't defend ourselves from enemies, we can't help the unfortunate.

Yesterday we had a study showing that almost all adult men avoid lost, crying children in malls. Why: they expect they will be charged with being a pedophile.

We simply can't go on like this. It won't end well.

The people who believe differently than you are perfectly normal people. Someday, you may need to ask them for help. What will be the result? Will they help you? Someday, they may ask you for help. Will you help them?

How are we going to come together? Especially if there comes a time when we really need to?

[classicman]

You got it wrong Spexxie. I didn't for months during what I would term as a good spirited debate. Then the PM threats (Assholish move to me) the narrowminded comments et all. I care not to rehash this. I'm moving on - care to join me or would you prefer to point fingers and relive it again for no reason?

ETA: I just realized that my last post implied I was calling him and asshole, again. That was another poorly written post by me. Whatever.

Nice and sunny out today

[sexobon]

Originally Posted by Redux

Knowing that opinion columns on either side are partisan or ideologically based and, more often than not, distort or misrepresent the full picture of the issue in question in order to support an agenda, why would you prefer that over the discussion of the facts?

I'm sorry Redux, my bad, in this context I was making a play on words in which the term missing links refers to some of the participants and their behavior (flinging poo) along the lines of definition #1 here and definition #2 here. Hence the "." The reference probably dates back to before your time.