I have been called a liar by your resident right wing know-it all about a mundane post that I made, and I demonstrated that it was no lie.
If this is the thread you are referring to: Economics
You realize it was moved to Backfire, right? If you’re really that conflicted about it, nothing is stopping you from posting there.
Playing the victim after broadly labeling others as murderers & racists for the offense of not agreeing with your opinions is pretty classless in my opinion.
Misstating what someone else posted as calling you a liar, instead of comprehending that they were stating, which was, You are being a bit taunting and incendiary., and then continuing that same behavior here proves the point as valid.
So, since you've been 'wronged' you choose to act worse than my 4 yr. old daughter when she doesn't get her way?
You've succeeded in making me lose all respect for you at this point in time.
Go ride already and stop acting like a spoiled child.
Tell you what, Old_man. I'm going to make all your dreams come true.
I am now giving you official victim status.
I am suspending your rights here on BW for one week.
During this week, I want you to consider whether this is REALLY a place you want to be. Considering BW is full of unfair, unjust, hateful, bigoted, racists for whom you have so little respect and for whom you have nothing but enmity, YOU need to decide how you will proceed here.
I have NO problem debating issues with you. I REALLY like debating issues. Others do as well. I don't believe that there has been a topic in recent history in which you have been able to civilly advocate for your point of view without personally attacking others.
When YOU get personal, others retaliate provoking you to claim that you are being unjustly persecuted.
I have defended a significant number of people here with differing views. I have defended Rocketsprink and Bill and Frankfast and others. Rarely do I agree with their positions, but they debate the issues as men. I respect them for that.
This isn't persecution for your views, this is giving you an opportunity to decide what your future here will be.
I'll skip the rant where I blame Rush for using the word "liberal" where he means socialist/progressive. It's not really all his fault, since the Communist/neocom folk did it first, stealing the identity of a fine, proud social liberal movement to hide their evil nature. ( about 100 years ago... see Woodrow Wilson for previous unconstitutional power grabs ) You see, no one would vote for someone whose goal in life is to take from the rich, then the poor, & keep it. Hard to get elected if you are honest about your contempt for the Constitution, and Capitalist Freedoms. So, they stole the name, and the rest is history. I'm a Liberal, old school. I support the freeing of slaves, ( as did Bush ) I support womens rights. ( with all the warts. If you do not wish to be property, ( I don't ) then you must take the bad with the good. The freedom to succeed is also the freedom to fail.) Does this mean I support women in combat? Yes. It grates on my religion that calls for the warrior to protect the weak. But my religion also allows for female warriors, so there I stand. I also stand for the utter annihilation of those who would rape ANY women, prisoner or civilian. I would have ordered the total destruction of the armies & person of Milošević. Any Allied POW raped would result in massive escalation. Any Prisoners of ours, so treated, the public hanging or crucifixion of the offending U.S. troop. Does that make me Liberal, or Conservative?
Although I have argued with the keepers of this site on political matters...(Because I'm not a conservative...I'm an old school Liberal so we have differences) I seldom get ad hominem attacks on my character from the keepers of this asylum.
I also think Ann Coulter is cute. I bet she spanks.
Interesting that you should bring up Ann Coulter. My son, who produces audio books for Simon and Schuster, did one of her books recently. Travis is a self proclaimed liberal but had this to say about Ms. Coulter; "Outside of the sound booth she is one of the nicest people you could hope to meet. But the minute you put a microphone in front of her she sounds like she wants to fillet babies."
Travis has produced many political books for people on both sides, including one with Jimmy Carter. The most interesting thing he said about them was that, even though he was more in agreement with the liberals, he thought the conservatives were the nicest people and the most pleasant to be around. I asked him why he thought that was. After a long pause to think about it he said "I'll have to get back to you on that."
He will soon be doing a book with Karl Rove. I'm certainly going to quiz him about that book and the man himself.
"I have defended a significant number of people here with differing views. I have defended Rocketsprink and Bill and Frankfast and others. Rarely do I agree with their positions, but they debate the issues as men. I respect them for that."
That was just worth repeating, and it's why this MOTORCYCLE forum is one of the only places I ever discuss politics.
The fact that most threads, even heated debates on politics get hijacked and become comedy side-shows is a reminder that MOST people here don't take the debates all that seriously in the grand scheme of things.
The fact that most threads, even heated debates on politics get hijacked and become comedy side-shows is a reminder that MOST people here don't take the debates all that seriously in the grand scheme of things.
I have not the slightest idea what you are talking about.
The fact that most threads, even heated debates on politics get hijacked and become comedy side-shows is a reminder that MOST people here don't take the debates all that seriously in the grand scheme of things.
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I have not the slightest idea what you are talking about.
See us "Libs" can be pretty mean as well. I think the answer to the topic question is: its just human nature mixed with a dash of extremist-conservatism.