[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
[quote]smh_23 wrote:
[quote]ZEB wrote:
You actually owe me a real apology for running away
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I know TB can fend for himself, but I’ve seen you miss this boat a couple of times now, and I thought I’d chime in to help you with a point about the structural “rules” of a message board like PWI. Just out of charity.
You were both foolish and dishonest. In one short portion of a thread, you told three dumb, dim lies – the “racist” excerpt from Obama’s book; the phantom Iranian “right” to a nuclear weapon (which would explicitly contravene the NPT and JCPOA alike); and the Obama never praises the Founders piffle (which I proved wrong with both long-past quotations and, hilariously, an excerpt from an interview he did the very day you made your false allegation).
For simplicity’s sake, we’ll focus only on the first of the prenominate three. You found a junk quotation on a junk website and copied/pasted it here in PWI. You did not indicate that the quotation came to you through a third party – you simply slapped it up on the wall, as if you’d taken it directly from Obama’s book. It turned out to be exceptionally dishonest horseshit, which means that you did not perform even a basic check into the verity of the garbage you were transposing from your dingbat corner of the interwebs.
In political debate – as in all debate – one expects one’s opponent to argue in good faith. This doesn’t have anything to do with being right or wrong, but instead demands that evidence or reasoning put forward be evidence or reasoning pre-confirmed, to ability’s best, as fair/good/legitimate. Do you know what kind of poster copies horseshit from junk websites, not knowing/caring about verity, in a blind stab at scoring some point for his unreasoned ideology? You do, I think: a dishonest one, and a stupid one.
Now, we all make mistakes. But your mistake was really low, and you tried your buttery best to squirm away from having to own up. Even now, having admitted to the act of “erring,” you’re demanding that TB apologize to you “for running away” from the very conversation that midwifed your dishonest horseshit. Of course, as soon as you argue in bad faith – as soon as you “show your ass,” in TB’s apt coinage – nobody has any kind of incentive to continue debating you, just as nobody has any kind of incentive to continue eating at a restaurant that has been grinding scrofulous rats into its sausages. This goes doubly for your much-whined-about “line by line” exchanges*, because these take time, and time is one of the many things you’re not worth.
- You know, the method by which you continually Gish-Gallop a superior opponent in the hope that, by sheer force of tenacity/volume, you’ll be able to create the illusion that you haven’t been utterly trounced.[/quote]
I couldn’t have said it better.
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Is that you TB hiding behind your boyfriends post?
Uh huh…
You two are such a pair 