First one to call names loses. That's a pretty standard rule.
It also means the others should stop indulging them.
There's no point having a discussion with people like that.
what childish things to say! humor me:
AutomaticSlim's admonition of "the rudeness from the left" was clearly biased. but if you all want to play by the "rules" fact check: ["TDS" by Koondog #89].
what do you think-- people are so dumb?
facts matter, and the truth matter. on the other hand, lies are easy. you don't have to seek and search and go on for a long pilgrimage. you can invent them. you cannot invent truth, you can only discover it.
truth may be disturbing. it needs tremendous courage. lies don't need any courage; any coward can do it. all cowards are doing it: fabricating, manufacturing beautiful lies, decorating them, presenting them to each other. for a moment it looks to be giving happiness, but a lie after all is a lie. soon you have found it is a dead toy. you have been deceived, hence the misery.
a table in your room that can be seen by everyone is a fact but if you say don't believe your eyes, a psychiatrist will say that you are delusional. we accept that the objectively present phenomenon is truth.
if there is an issue today that should receive priority bipartisan support: preventing covert foreign interference in the democratic election process in the United States should be at the top of the list.
Beware of Putinbots!