The Public Opinion Soapbox

Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2413 Location: Chambersburg

But she is a pinko commie, srsly

Torgo · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:36 pm Post subject:

Personally, I love the word "pinko."

Put it together with "nihilist" and I just swoon...
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.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2859 Location: Chambersburg

Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2413 Location: Chambersburg

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2859 Location: Chambersburg

AAnnnnndddd now I'm lost
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Torgo · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:41 pm Post subject:

Torgo · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:42 pm Post subject:

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2859 Location: Chambersburg

Bobo · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 173 Location: Chambersburg

Torgo · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject:

Hey, thanks for missing — and proving — my point all at once.

Very adroit.
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Bobo · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 173 Location: Chambersburg

Uh, looks like you missed my point too. Very perceptive.
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Torgo · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject:

Okay, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not reduced to the "I know you are, but what am I" defense.

I was merely suggesting that anyone who has difficulty separating their own sense of self-worth from the worth of their opinions probably shouldn't be posting on an Internet forum.

By crying and whining and calling people cynics and conspiracy theorists every time they oppose your arguments, you make others who may care about your feelings reluctant to do so, no matter how easy or tempting it may be.

Forums are no place for the thin-skinned. Fortunately for you, Bobo, there's apparently only about a dozen people who post regularly here. Otherwise, much more withering souls than I would be eating your lunch constantly.

But, I'm pretty sure you're not open to suggestion. So I'll just leave it at that and ignore your posts hereafter. Feel free to have the last "neener-neener!"
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Torgo · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject:

I would say "back on topic" but I get the strange feeling that unfortunate exchange isn't all that far removed from the problem underlying this billboard war.

In other words, billboards are macro forums!

Person A posts a message. Person B person dislikes that message and gets offended. Person B posts an inflammatory strawman in response. It just takes a whole lot more money and is seen (sad to say) by a whole lot more people.

Or am I way off base? Discuss?
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Completely Unbiased · Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 8

I'm new here, but have been reading posts for quite some time. At the risk of making an enemy already, I'm gonna step in here and tell ya how I see it. You seem to me to be a bit hostile Torgo. I don't think people come here to be criticized. I think they want to express opinions and debate points with others who may or may not agree, buut I don't think they want to be insulted or be on the receiving end of personal attacks.

Torgo · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:31 pm Post subject:

Welcome, ye of the extremely huge avatar.

I disagree with you. Or I should say you're half right. The people you're rushing to defend don't want to debate. They just want to express themselves and have their expressions treated as tasty, unassailable nuggets of profound wisdom that others would have be, like, really, really, really, really mean and hostile to disagree with.

When you do, they accuse you of attacking them personally, when all you did was dismantle their idea.

How can debate be valuable when people are made to feel like they cannot engage in criticism, for whatever reason? That's not debate or argument, in the classical sense, at all.

It's just a circle-jerk. Might as well shout at a wall.
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