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It was a concise statement in the middle of a paragraph, surrounded by 12 other paragraphs. So way to completely reinforce my point? This is exactly what I was saying. I can copy and paste some random stuff before and after this if it'll make it easier for you.

Edited, May 14th 2009 10:16pm by Xsarus

I didn't think I could actually think less of you. Then, you have to go ahead and use "creative" to describe that drivel.

Turtle,



On the flip side I purposely keep my posts succinct because I know the uneducated masses have a difficult time processing information that doesn't come in sound bytes.

Somewhere Gbaji weeps.....

Try it for a week.

You know I went and read a Gbaji post from the Old UBB forums when the archive was linked a while ago. Nothings changed.

Someone is always going to twist your words. The reason for this is because they're trolling you. Just troll them back. I find agreeing with them and extrapolating to a completely absurd outcome works the best. People you actually care about discussing something with will likely tend to at least try to take your words at face value. Or just don't worry about it, reply with "way to completely miss the point". At that point instead of completely reiterating your point just hit post message.

btw, ellipses not needed there.

Edited, May 15th 2009 5:32pm by Xsarus

If I had the slightest belief that this was the case, I wouldn't have a problem with it. I've engaged in "silly" threads as often as the next guy on this site. I don't have a problem with that.

When my words are twisted around by people who very clearly feel strongly about the issue they're talking about (ie: not just trolling), it's a very different thing. If it were one or two people doing this, it wouldn't be a big deal. And if the word twisting was just occurring on an internet forum, it would also not be such a big deal. But I've seen the exact same twisted logic used by political commentators on the left, in complete seriousness. There are pretty much zero arguments I run into on this site which aren't parrots of arguments you can hear uttered by folks like Olbermann, Garafolo, Colmes, and numerous guests on various news shows, and repeated over and over by more folks on blogs, comedy shows, and from awards podiums.

If it was trolling, they wouldn't actually believe what they're saying. But they do. That's kind of the scary bit I suppose. It looks like our political debate has largely been replaced with clever one-liners, ridiculous assumptive phrases, bumper-stickers, and warped logic. Sure. I could just ignore it, but if no one stands up and says "No. That's not correct", when he hears someone repeating the latest liberal lie-de-jour, then everyone hearing these things will just assume they must be true. Cause, if everyone's saying it, it must be true, right?


Sorry. You can bash me for posting my opinions, but I'm not going to sit quietly by while I see so many people repeating what I believe to be blatant falsehoods about the politics of the world we live in.

You can be clear and obvious without being overly verbose.

Every little bit helps

Er, it's not a tax.

Edit: Doh, that's what I get for going afk before hitting post.

Edited, May 19th 2009 2:29pm by LockeColeMA

Yes?

Jophed,

If your car gets better mileage great. But do you specifically penalize people whose vehicles don't?

You're going to have to provide a real-life example since this isn't what the article is talking about.