Kad said: "binau said: "That is a proper debate"
What you, Seb28, and Boris are willfully ignorant of is thatthis isn't debate club. It's a ****ing Broadway message board. You all retreat to cries of "ad hominem!" and "substantive replies only!" only after you've thoroughly provoked and pissed off a number of people and then play dumb about it. Nobody has agreed to your bad-faith rules of engagement and nobody is obligated to follow them. Not unlike Charlie Kirk, who, despite being eulogized as someone who dared to debate the other side, usually did so in situations where he could control who was debating him and on what topics and could use the results to create trolling content.
You're a bunch of attention-starved phonies who managed to find a poorly moderated niche message board where you can turn every thread into an opportunity to grab the spotlight for yourselves.
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Aww Kad, you know you are one of my favourite posters!
I've re-read my own posts in this thread and I just don't see how my posts are even inflammatory - I don't even think I say controversial things. All I do is disagree with some of your world views, and I provide the reasons why.
I'm pissing people off because I don't think there should be calls for political violence and because I think the evidence suggests it was an ideological left motive? (which I provided clear reasons for).
I don't think I even have bad faith rules, I just want people to discuss the ideas.
I must admit I do feel a lot of spotlight right now, I continue to find it so strange why people keep doing it.
Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.