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Thread: The Conservatives' Dilemma.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    Are you threatening the man?
    Are you whacky? Rhetorical.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Thank you for saying there was no critical thinking involved.
    You play dirty pool.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    You play dirty pool.
    Yawn, stop trolling.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Are you whacky? Rhetorical.
    So uh, who else is included in your statement?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Yawn, stop trolling.
    You DO play dirty pool Chris. You’re not being topical. Keep your thread off this one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    Truthfully, I find those forums where all the members are in lockstep to be boring and unimaginative. While there are posters on this forum that I would gleefully submerge in boiling oil for the most part I enjoy the back and forth.
    One thing for sure, there’s not enough balance here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    It's exactly what I keep trying to say around here, that I'm not a leftie, I'm definitely a centrist. I don't care for the far left. I don't like their politics or their rhetoric, so on that forum I would pose the same challenges to their radical posts, trying to ferret out exactly what they meant about a given subject and I got labeled a right-wing plant and banned. I thought that was very funny. I logged on to a conservative forum, presented the same challenges to the far right there, and was told that it was a conservative site that didn't allow liberals and I got banned there too.

    Trinnity got tired of the challenges and just banned me: it says "no particular reason"...


    All this says that I'm right where I want to be: squarely in the middle.
    OK so what are your centrist views?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    I was banned from the Democrats for Progress forum a few years ago. Actually I was suspended first - for a couple of weeks, if I recall correctly - for insulting another member. The other member had written that when he saw someone open carrying a gun in public it made him so angry that he wanted to go home, get his gun and come back and shoot the person. My "insult" consisted of my noting that I would be more afraid of someone who had the attitude just expressed by the other member. My contributions to that point had largely consisted in objecting to other members' vile stereotyping of firearms owners, and I think the "insult" thing was just an excuse.
    Your position to oppose radicals on either side of the Political Spectrum does have its own merit. Perhaps in an Ideal Society this would be the best position.


    In my opinion, my position, which is rather radical (although I advocate nothing illegal) has its merit as well.
    Progressives are Passionate about establishing Totalitarian Tyranny.

    Conservatives are Apathetic about maintaining a Free Society.

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    I have began to study Game Theory -- such as Prisoners Dilemma and other costs and benefits of different behaviors. I would say that if Irrational Anger exists in Humans and other species 4,100 years after Deluge then Irrational Anger has benefits for Society. Most American Jews and Christians believe the Old Testament. Most Atheist would make the same argument over 3 Billion year timescale. Most Hindus would make that argument over 72 Trillion year timescale.
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    Progressives are Passionate about establishing Totalitarian Tyranny.

    Conservatives are Apathetic about maintaining a Free Society.

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