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In reply to the discussion: Surprised by the atmosphere here.... [View all]stupidicus
(2,570 posts)it rings many a bell.
While I was likely using this place as a news-gathering service it is back at that time, I didn't read or participate in the threads until about a year or so ago now. That endless moving of the goalpost you described only to inevitably fall face first into at the end, was exactly what I observed with the SS/chained cpi debate.
The bell it rung is one I've made a point of many a time to the characters you're describing -- that there are many things of that sort that the rightwingnuts don't have a monopoly on, including "debating" tactics. That's what they've (rightwingers on other boards I've been on) done for as long as I've been on them, starting with the wmd BS -- be wrong as a factual matter time and again, like recently with the Benghazi and IRS scandals -- and then just drop them like they never happened while maintaining that they are still the sharpest tools in the box. The only mystery left as I periodically remind them, is whether they are more dumb than dishonest, or the other way around.
Given this, the conditions here make a great deal more sense to me. It reads to me like the many oldtimers around here battling it out currently over the NSA thing, and the way in which they are doing it, is perhaps more representative of an accumulation of many small or large charges -- however you wanna look at them respectively -- than something isolated to the more recent ones of SS and the NSA I've witnessed and participated in. It also reads like this is not a chicken/egg situation as I suspected, and that it is almost if not always the dissent that is the catalyst/proximate cause for the escalation in/revisiting of the rancor -- with the "good guys" picking the scab off with the customary "bizness" directed at those dissenting.
Thanks for the post and insight it provided dream.