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In reply to the discussion: I Have a Pledge to Make. Who Will Join Me? [View all]Fearless
(18,421 posts)136. Why are you right?
I mean to say, what makes your point of view right and that of those who disagree with you wrong? You give no facts to back up your words. Beliefs yes. Facts none.
Yet you tell your detractors that it is they who are without specific examples when you yourself have given none off of which to base your points. Does that not make you in the same right equally "dishonest or deliberately ignorant?" Does that not give credence to the possibility that you too are identical from your detractors save the direction from which you come?
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I just tried to tell my wife that the pledges we made when we got married ...
JoePhilly
Dec 2011
#101
Pledges stiffle? Is that because of the pledge or because the pledgee took viagra? nt
stevenleser
Dec 2011
#104
Wow. I could not have asked for a better example of thoughtless belligerence.
The Doctor.
Dec 2011
#16
You are calling a poster "thoughtlessly belligerent"? Is that within community
rhett o rick
Dec 2011
#106
So what you're saying is that it's wrong to point out when someone is lying.
The Doctor.
Dec 2011
#93
i pledge to not commit to civil discourse regarding the taking of pledges.
piratefish08
Dec 2011
#178
Just to watch the hypocrisy spew from your keyboard, in direct contradiction to your OP.
DisgustipatedinCA
Dec 2011
#80
Here are a couple of your posts that I believe push the community standards envelope.
rhett o rick
Dec 2011
#108
If DU is about seeing Democrats and getting Democrats elected, it can't be one big steady Obama or
deacon
Dec 2011
#85
Yeah, asking people to be honest and open is certainly a form of censorship.
The Doctor.
Dec 2011
#126
sounds reasonable - count me in, although I try to do those things all the time. nt
cry baby
Dec 2011
#115
I think democratic party has decided that the a-hole "independent" who voted for McCain
scentopine
Dec 2011
#131
Are you saying the voices in my head are telling me you think I'm a liar?
hootinholler
Dec 2011
#169