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[Dill]

(08-22-2023, 04:21 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Do you threaten to shutdown the forum when Trump was accused of Russia collusion and the liberal bases posted on this lie over and over again? It appears you have made a decision to attack conservatives. It appears I am your target.

I know the liberal posters are applauding, they love to see conservative voices shut down versus debating the facts.

This is me sharing my opinion as you stated is permitted, just as you just stated your opinion. I will follow the CoC, my expectations you make others follow it as well.

Please combine any threads with similar topics, I tried to delete some, but it would not allow me to do it.

I'm applauding as someone who likes clean debate, focused on arguments and not on persons--or at least not on forum members.  

Also, I don't want to see you singled out as a "problem." Unless you think your views cannot thrive on their own merits in open debate, I'm betting you'll have no worries from a bit more "refereeing" of debates. I take B-holic at his word when he says it is not political positions which bother him, but the nastiness derailing threads. If he is offering us this space for rational debate, then we shouldn't repay that kindness with dysfunction and stress. 

While I suspect anxiety prompts you to start more threads than necessary, I learn many things from your posts because I cannot follow ALL the right wing news sources, but I want to know what is going on with them. While I generally disagree with you on what reaches a level of actionable evidence or what constitutes a "lie," you have frequently alerted me to aspects of the "Biden Crime Family" prosecution I'd likely never have found on my own. I see that as value and a contribution to the forum. It helps me understand what is really going on in U.S. politics beyond what I can glean from the news. So I don't want you to leave or stop posting. I don't want to participate in a boring "echo chamber" of liberal views. 

I'm also anxious about the direction the country is going and about the upcoming election. We share that, though from opposite ends of the spectrum.  We may be the only regular Fox viewers in the forum as well. So from henceforth lets start from our commonalties. As the forum "extremists," we both have to be especially careful to respect civil norms as well standards of rational argument.