Posted: Jan 10, 2019 8:16 am
Skinny Puppy wrote:OlivierK wrote:Skinny, perhaps you could link to posts of yours in this thread that you think represent the level of rational discussion to which you think others should be held?
Give me a fucking break! This thread (forum) is nothing more than a shit-fest of who can outdo the others with the most outlandish anti-Trump horseshit.
It's like a bunch of 3-year-olds throwing shit in a romper room. Don't expect me to carry a shining banner because whatever I post will be shit on, pissed on and completely dismissed. Oh, is there a 'special' standard for me but not the others? It doesn't work that way.
I really don't care... but at least the folks here should be honest about what they're doing and cut the pretense that this is even remotely a rational forum.
This is not a rational forum! We have well over 700 shit-stained pages in this thread alone, not even counting the 10s of other non-Trump threads where he just has to be mentioned even when the thread is about... bunnies, I'm being facetious, but it's the truth.
I'm not going to give you a fucking break. You have no idea what the reception would be to well argued, sincere pro-Trump posts, because you don't post any.
You post shit of the lowest possible rationality, and people call you out on it. You evade reasonable questions, and make excuse after excuse after excuse about why you can't or won't do better. In terms of rationality, I reckon you lower the average quality of this thread more than any other contributor, and I share your low opinion of the quality of some of the anti-Trump voices here.
I'm interested in American politics, and I'd like to be able to discuss it without namecalling and tribalistic bullshit. The biggest barrier to that isn't people calling Trump an orange scrotum, it's you.
A while back, I asked you to compare the cost of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's policies to the cost of maintaining the status quo in areas such as health care. It's an interesting exercise, and you appear to think that the costs of healthcare policy are relevant enough to bring them to this thread, but I'm still yet to receive a reply from you about why you think that moving health costs from the private to the public sector (and if international experience is a guide, reducing them significantly in the process) is a bad idea.
Unfortunately, I no longer believe that you're capable of having the rational discussions you claim to value. I'm open to being proven wrong about that, but frankly I'm expecting to remain disappointed.