Reply #13: Flame wars? Ever heard of an argument? [View All]

[JackRiddler]

The term "flame" is a sign of our society's mental decay into mindless and harmless diversion.

Argument, preferably waged with the tools of logic, is a natural and creative process, and need not be derogated as "flame war."

Argument does not discredit DU; its frequent descent into cheap name-calling does. As do those who try to discredit and prevent argument by calling it "flaming."

Of course the stealing of 2000 remains important! It all remains important - all the lies dating back to as far as we can expose them. We live in a veritable Matrix of lies; there will be no magic future lie that exposes the whole rot. That requires memory, serious historical work. Some are too lazy for that, and like to blame the people.

I say, let the people finally hear some truth; maybe they'll realize how badly they've been fooled all along.

FLORIDA WAS STOLEN SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY!

As for jiacinto's way: letting crime pay and forgetting about it is a predictable way to encourage crime. Your prescription basically is to pursue a weak strategy that you have decided "the people" prefer. This will lose the election. After this, you will predictably blame it on flamers, leftists, Greens, whatever, anyone who was not loyal to the party line as defined by your mentality - the line of say nothing, do nothing.

Great.