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No, you said the issue as "not a bipartisan one" to quote you, and I think you either meant bipartisan or really didn't mean to put in the word "not".
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Damn. Now I feel like an idiot. Sorry about that. I blame it on my first experience with coffee.
But you will note, by the way, that I've been hitting Combine 017 in this thread just as hard if not harder. I'm still waiting for somebody to tell me who he/she/it is and whether I should just ignore him/her/it. But if you want to know why I was specifically targeting Bond (other than he just happened to make the first new political thread since I came back), it's because what I've been reading from him in this forum more than anything else is some variation of "Please stop being polarized." To see him engage in a polarizing commentary without even fully explaining himself is disappointing.
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Example: The last time you were here when you stated you wouldn't respond any rebuttal I made to your points and would not even read them. Thats not one-upmanship, thats intellectual cowardice. You may find me condecending at times, but at least I engage in discourse and do not ignore opposing opinion or dismiss it outright. To do so i arrogance on a Christopher Hitchens level, and at least he shows up to debates to insult the other party involved.
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Come on now. I don't have very much time to post
anywhere. And I stated last time that I was only coming in there to provide a little intellectual balance because I felt that the liberals in the thread were being incompetent. All I wanted to do was try to give some halfway decent arguments for you to play with. And then I acknowledged the reality that I wouldn't be reading your replies because most likely I would be disappearing for another few months before I had time to come back here again. I'm sure you had some pretty good rebuttals, but let's not kid ourselves. I've never said anything in here that you've not seen before elsewhere, and you've not said much that I haven't read in other places either. Neither of us is a totally original thinker, and it's not like GT is the only place where I engage in political discussion with people who disagree with me. I appreciate your willingness to engage in thoughtful debate, but I assure you that you're not the only source of alternate viewpoints for me.
It wasn't one-upmanship. It was just me being so exasperated with the incompetents on "my" side that I couldn't take it any more. It was never anything against you, so please don't take it personally.