Bendira wrote:Glorious Homeland wrote:The fella they spoke to was a Libertarian, he was just part of their investigation into anti-stateisms, it's links to the tea party and what have have you, in the USA.
Also, please stop doing that smily. Your statement without it was fine, as it is asking a question; with it, you just come across as a dick trying to demean rather than have dialogue with your opponent. People are not psychic, you ought to explain your position carefully so that others can understand the difference between your definition and theirs, rather than try and mock them because YOU can't explain things properly? It doesn't win you any favours and certainly doesn't progress the conversation or debate. Let's play nicely, maturely, respectfully.
I think you surrendered the right to a respectful debate when you started your post out with
Crazy and obsolete
Basically says "no matter what you say, im going to ignore it". And also there wasn't anything I could really qrite, other than to facepalm the fact that you think Tea Partiers are libertarians.
No, I'm open to you blowing me away with such a logical, well sourced and seductive argument about whatever it is that I up sticks and follow your ideology. Presently to me, given all I know, it seems like a crazy and obsolete ideology that didn't quite get killed off come the turn of the 20th century.
There also was a better alternative, you could have EXPLAINED your position rather than expressing that you think I'm an idiot without even a word of why, which is to say the least a little undiplomatic. Do you see two scientists often facepalming each other when one makes a mistake or does not have something properly explained? No, you see them correcting their peers or explaining, like normal adults. I have been plenty respectful, and honest and verbose. I also think communism is crazy and obsolete. But would you get so uppity about that? Or nazism, or juche or khmer rouge or whatever. Or any other belief you don't personally have some sort of pact with? Of course not, if you didn't like the ideology you'd agree that it would be crazy and obsolete, in which case you're being a hypocrite.
So stop dancing around how you somehow are a moral authority on respectfulness, which you are not, are please instead focus and explain what you would have done instead of using "
" because apparently we're all fucking psychic... I'd be interested to hear your opinions, if you are capable of explaining them. I would love to be convinced by a rather good argument, or to learn something about something, so go on. Blow my socks off. I'm all ears.