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In reply to the discussion: Moore and Krugman piss on the ACA decision [View all]I'll keep an eye out for you in the future in those posts (like the one that prompted this one) of that kind from them then, to make sure that you're even handed in the dispensing of this kinda admonishment then. I agree, that effort on their part was a totally inflammatory and unnecessary indictment of valued and likely smarter DU posters, despite them being unnamed and unquoted.
What "fact" would that be? I would say by now as prevalently as I've seen criticisms of this and that directed at BHO/dem policies by DUers similarly punished, that the point/fact would be common knowledge by now.
That's why I asked if they (M&K) should be boycotted for such an egregious violation, kinda the way some put posters on "ignore" around here for expressing povs some find unpalatable.
To quite a few around here, no dissent or criticism, and no matter how principled or defensible it is, can go unpunished.
What are you saying/asking, that we should just take our medicinely silently, and that top posts like this in our defense are far more offensive and objectionable to the common "those who criticize BHO/the dems are just poopyheads and likely rightwingnut wolves in lefty clothing seeking to undermine them and their agenda in their entirety by way of killing enthusiasm and lessening the body count in the voting booths this Nov!".
By the standards of quite a few around here as they apply them to fellow DUers, there was NOTHING inflammatory or unnecessary about what I said and asked about K&M, there was merely confrontation in the form of a "If DUers are often found guilty under identical circumstances...." charge, which none of them have seemed to muster a response to.
You see, I know this, because I've been a victim.
If you aren't guilty of such conduct, then I'd say drop it, because this isn't the first time I've addressed this issue and it certainly won't be the last.
ANd my effort here was to inform in response to unnecessary inflammation that occurs here daily. The info is, many so-called "liberals" around here share behavior identical to in both substance and goal with the Bushbots we use to battle. You live with it and tolerate it in silence if you want, but that ain't my bag -- as they use to say. I have no tolerance for that kinda intolerance, or demands that I be just another bee in the hive -- or else, the else being called whatever the highbrow non-flamers find it necessary to call me and my kind.
We can disagree without being disagreeable, and I doubt that either Moore or Krugman would take offense to my effort here, since their use was as examples of exactly the conditions I seek, as your words indicate you do. I can't repost the examples and the posters in the form of a callout to prosecute my case against them in the complete manner desirable as far as I know, so I merely used subtlety to jab them with and to assist in the pleading for the desirability and necessity of acknowledging the existence of flaws, which is the FLAW in their BS it also served as a complaint about/criticism of.
thanks for the welcome