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Originally Posted by dreadgeek
Ms D:
Like you, I am done with the 'drive by' crap. If one of my neighbors ran into my house and took a dump on the hardwood, I wouldn’t take too kindly to it. I see no reason why I should let slide someone doing the Internet message board equivalent. You have characterized it perfectly. What this person does is post some crap that has about as much fact to it as a Harry Potter movie and then scampers off until the next time she chooses to do that act. While I understand all the arguments for "don't give them energy" I am also reminded of a line that Terry Pratchett, the British satirist, likes to have his characters quote: "a lie will get halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on". Every time that we allow an untruth to sit in these forums unchallenged, we do two things: We *encourage* the behavior of posting untruths and put the wind at the back of the lie. We have had a real-world view of how that plays out watching how the Democrats dealt with (or failed to deal with) the lies told about Mr. Obama and the HCR bill.
I get it that my fact-based, reality-based commitment doesn't make me the most popular poster here. I don't care. Thirty years of epistemic relativism to the contrary, there really are facts, there really is reality, and no one is entitled to their own set of facts. Everyone is entitled to their opinions but no one is entitled to their own facts.
I think it's long past the time that we stopped pretending that everyone gets their own facts.
Cheers
Aj
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Count me in with being discusted with drive-by conservative crap that has no basis in fact! You bet disagreement via opinion is different than spewing facts without research and getting to the primary sources. I could line up a kazillion "facts" that align with my views from several sources, but to do so is only doing exactly what the likes of beck, O'Rielly, Limbaugh and Coulter do.
I am also tired of liberals and or progressives being viewed as not caring about how funds are used and just wanting tax revenues to be used without accountability. I don't feel that way at all and again, one would have to be stuck on stupid right now to not have concerns over US spending and the deficit. There are just different policies and approaches I would want to see over what the Right views as the way to go.