cnredd said:
But WHY rip on everyone else for doing the same thing?!?!?
Why would anyone with a soul beat down other people for not using his "strict standard of debating rules" when he readily admits it that he doesn't do it himself?
That is hypocracy to the extreme.
Wrong.....I almost always provide proof and links.....when you ask me to do anything I will ignore you and your request for you're only baiting me and trying to put me down. Your posts are meaningless and worthless to me. Not to mention that from what I've read in your posts I almost never see any proof of anything other than your ability to write abusive posts.
The fact is that you and Teacher dislike my politics to the extreme. So much so that you have both gone out of your way to belittle me, mock me, and to try many different ways to discredit me.
That is how I see you, and that is why when you make a request of me I ignore it and you. I like to debate, and when someone regularly posts talking points that are not true I challenge them and request supporting evidence to back the claims. More times than not my requests are to a minority of people I consider to be hardliners, people who post comments that are simply accurate, as a rule. That is why I request proof.
On the other hand, my posts are almost always fact filled when making political points of the day. I go out of my way to link the source of my argument. You might want to give it a shot, even if you're only able to do it occassionally. Maybe then the claims that you make would be believeable to the masses rather than only believable to people who are on your side, IMHO.
I also have the right to change my opinion as time goes by and facts change. You seem to want to point out that I changed my mind or altered my stance as if it is the wrong thing to do. That is your point of view, and I disagree with it. To people of even lesser intelligence the right to change one's view is normal. What is abnormal is that someone is so dogmatic that they cannot change their views or their minds....
The concept of debating is not to get the people who believe you to kiss your butt and write "good post." The concept is to get the opposition to admit that what you posted is accurate, as Gordon did in a post I made yesterday. That, to me, is debating....not writing post after post calling me a liar. Not jumping from thread to thread asking people to go to other threads to prove to them that you think I've lied.
From what I've read you never seem to debate me, you just like to say that I have no creditability, no matter what I write, and then you want to convince others that I'm a liar. How come you seem unable to debate the points in the thread? Is it because you get off on trying to prove me a liar?
I wrote last night that it would be much better for all concerned to write posts that debate each others views. Maybe you're just not able to debate? From where I'm typing that is how I perceive it.
