Stop Posting in WE!

Originally Posted By jonvn

Hey, you guys want me to debate him? I can be every bit as obnoxious as him, and worse, so I can suck up all his time, so the rest of you can go talk about what you want.

Just my little service for you fine folks here at World Events.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

I love Small World dolls.

That one in the Middle East section...up on the flying carpet...

And then the surfer...

And the one's who do a hula dance...

And the one at Walt Disney World who is up in a balloon holding a sign that reads 'HELP'

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

Please dive in jonvn!

 

Originally Posted By jonvn

I never liked Mary Blair's artwork that much. And I often think back to the murals that lined the entry way through Tomorrowland and am happy they are covered over. Never liked them.

I know kids and older ladies love Small World to death, though. And that's what makes the world go round. That, and gravity, of course.

 

Originally Posted By Beaumandy

You want the section shut down because you can't keep up Jim. It's like the kid who want's to shut down the baseball leauge because he sucks and nobody will pick him to play.

I like the Dolls in the Hawaii section in Small World.

 

Originally Posted By Shooba

And surprise surprise, this thread demonstrates the problem with World Events. Blanket personal attacks - "liberals are fools" and the false assertion that people want to see the conservative viewpoint banned. Of course it's not true, and yet another thread turns into mud-slinging instead of any sort of rational conversation.

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

>>yet I am supposed to just back down?<<

No, you don't have to back down. It would be nice if you could disagree without being insulting. Make your points without having to "sum up" how libs are fools, for instance.

What's disappointing about this section is that I am sure the majority of LPers are moderate to conservative. Yet even they won't post here because of the nasty tone you yourself are largely responsible for. You. Yourself.

You need to own that. But I doubt you will.

It isn't about whether or not your view is right or left. It's how you play the game. You are one who believes in spiking the ball and doing a victory dance, jabbing a finger in the chest of the opposing team and screaming, "IN YOUR FACE!" It's childish, yet you continue with it, because you apparently have some unfilfilled need to do that.

Being middle-of-the-road myself, I enjoyed having civil debates with people on the left AND the right. But the sort of false talk radio tactics you copy (weakly, by the way) from Rush make reasonable discussion all but impossible in this section.

It's funny that there was a Community discussion of faith that went for more than 150 posts. Each one was well thought out, from the heart, respectful. And they came from everything from devout Christians to complete athieists. No insults. No slams. Just ideas.

So, that kind of debate is possible, even among people with polar opposite viewpoints on a subject of great importance.

Just not in this section, sadly.

 

Originally Posted By Beaumandy

Tell me a place where Liberalsim has worked Shooba. Otherwise I will tell you that you are a fool to follow such nonsense.

Simply back up your position. Why is that so " offensive ".

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

<You want the section shut down because you can't keep up Jim.>

Uh-huh. I'm sure that's it Beau. Maybe you can get banned again.

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

And with every post in this thread, Beaumandy, you underscore and illustrate exactly my points.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

I found a great site for you Beau...

<a href="http://www.RepublicansRule.com" target="_blank">http://www.RepublicansRule.com</a>

 

Originally Posted By Beaumandy

K2man... great to see ya. Your wife is a very smart person. You are a lucky guy, she has a lot of common sense.

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

Yes she is, and yes I am very lucky.

Now, please, consider what I wrote. Think it over.

 

Originally Posted By jonvn

Personal attacks are really the refuge for the weak minded.

As soon as someone says "liberal" in a post, it means that person can't think of a real argument, and has to resort to knee-jerk stereotypical thinking that forms the basis of ideology. An ideology formed not by thought or consideration, but instead by prejudice and dittoism.

Personal attacks of any kind, which includes the labeling of other people as one type or another, should not be tolerated. I never liked it when I was a much more frequent poster here, and I still don't. It's what a weak minded person does when they can't respond in any other way.

Suppose I said that someone said believe something because they were "black," or a "jew?" "You just want that because you're a jew." Exact same sort of thing. Absolutely no thought behind it, nothing but intolerance and bigotry.

And the response? Well, what is the use in trying to argue with someone with such a closed mindset? They are simply not intelligent enough to even begin to comprehend any cogent or logical argument made to them regarding their statements, as all they then can do is say "LIBERAL!"

It's all stupidty, really.

Frankly, I never have understood the admin policies of this board. I often had posts redlined when I felt nothing was wrong with them, while other posts that I thought were inflammatory were let through. I can see in this one topic alone several posts that I would instantly remove, all of them containing what I consider to be personal attacks, or labeling of other posters.

It shouldn't be here.

 

Originally Posted By Shooba

>>Tell me a place where Liberalsim has worked Shooba. Otherwise I will tell you that you are a fool to follow such nonsense.

Simply back up your position. Why is that so " offensive ".<<

Extremely liberal governments tend to stifle economic growth with excessive taxes. They also can do good things in terms of social spending/progress. Conservative governments are often better from an economic standpoint, but the most vulnerable memebers of society seem to be left out in the cold.

Defending liberalism is not the point. It has good aspects and bad aspects. I've never endorsed it. I don't like extremist methods of governance - period.

The point is that calling all liberals stupid is insulting to anyone who can see more than one side of an issue. This thread has nothing to do with winning or losing debates or banning a viewpoint, it has to do with World Events being nothing more than a forum for trolls to spew insults.

 

Originally Posted By LadyKluck

>>> I am also very nice to the new people on here.<<<

So your nice to the new ones, until you figure out they don't have the exact same opinions as you and then you go Dr.Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde on them or something? Would it be so difficult to be nice to everyone, even if you don't agree with what they have to say Beaumandy?

Your blood pressure must be out of this world!



Oh, and I like the Hawaii Small World Dolls too!

 

Originally Posted By Beaumandy

The things that are important to me are..

My family
My Country
My right to be a Christian.

Liberals attack all of these things to the point where they make it easier for a terrorist to kill my family, to the point where they make it hard to teach my kids strong moral values, to the point where Christians are attacked and forced underground.

THAT is why I fight liberals on here and everywhere else they lurk. so no, I won't back down because they are flat out wrong.

Take the politics out and I am fine with them much of the time.

 

Originally Posted By jonvn

"Liberals attack"

You neither understand what a "liberal" is nor what one would consider a liberal belief.

If you did, you would not be making such ridiculous statments.

 

Originally Posted By Beaumandy

<<Personal attacks of any kind, which includes the labeling of other people as one type or another, should not be tolerated.>>

Is it a personal attack to call someone a liberal when they have admitted they are one?

It's liberals who get offended by the label not conservatives... why is that?

Because liberalism is known for one thing... failure.

 

Originally Posted By jasmine7

<<THAT is why I fight liberals on here and everywhere else they lurk. so no, I won't back down because they are flat out wrong.<<

You don't "fight" liberals, Beau. In your mind, you might see it that way, but you don't. You slam them. If someone doesn't agree with your point of view, you call them names and dance around in the endfield like it's the winning touchdown of the Super Bowl. That's not "fighting." That's just plain childish.

And what happened in this country that made us lose the give-and-take of actual political discussion. I'm not saying that you have to agree with everything or even ANYTHING that another person says, but can't we at least acknowledge that one has the RIGHT to a differing opinion without calling them names?