How can you ask for a link when you're one of those who does it? BTW, I just now responded to a PM telling me that you were good people and to look over the things you said to me.
That much I will do, but the problem exists; and your strategies are still wrong.
Did she "shout you down", or did she respond to you?
I don't know that there is a difference, but the strategies she signed on to have a bad habit of making victims out of the people they promised to protect.
She was definitely wrong. Either of you can run a search on the immigration threads we participated in recently and clear it up.
There's a difference. And whether or not you think she's wrong is not that difference.
So, what are you saying? Spell it out.
You're being a whiner who thinks being opposed is the same as being oppressed. That clear enough for you?
To bring it back to the topic, this is EXACTLY the sort of attitude pervading our culture that puts our First Amendment rights in such danger.
You aren't making much sense. I'm going toe to toe with an individual that has an IQ of what? Her shoe size? And that's being nice. Who again was the whiner? Who had a post deleted here for saying the same thing back to the troll? When that post was deleted, how did you feel? Were you pissed OR did you think, yeah, we got rid of that "
whiner"?
If you want to be on one person's side or the other I get it. But, in order to have a First Amendment, all sides have to be equally protected. I don't have the same First Amendment Rights as you do. That's a fact. But those whose Rights
ARE protected are oblivious when someone else has their Rights disrespected.
For example, antifa, angry black people, liberals, etc. can march in the streets and the rest of America stays at home and lets them do their thing. What happens if a dozen whites show up to cry about immigration, the Confederate flag, etc. Most people, at that point, don't give a rip about your First Amendment Rights.
The reality is, the first person to start name calling already lost the argument. It signals two things:
A) The name caller is out of steam and has nothing else
B) The name caller realizes their argument is so weak they have to divert attention to the facts because the name caller doesn't trust their fellow posters to evaluate the facts based upon their merit.
Americans would rather side with people on the basis of popularity rather than the substantive content of arguments. For example, the only time the right disagrees with me is over one issue...
AND I AGREE WITH THEM THERE IS AN ISSUE!!!!!!!!! Where we disagree is over the solution. In FIFTEEN PLUS YEARS of being on the Internet, not once, not one time did the right feel comfortable
asking me what the solution is. I suppose that I should have anticipated that because in the early days of the Internet, we were still holding public meetings. I would address an issue, we later had open mic and nobody dared speak out against me. Hours later they were spewing cowardly B.S.on the Net as they were too scared and / or too embarrassed to utter such in public.
You can trash talk all you like, but until you've sweated the sweat I have and bled the real blood I have in defense of those Rights, you will not be in my league when it comes to an understanding of
unalienable Rights. Did you see even ONE swinging Richard on this entire board complain when one of my posts on this very thread got deleted?
You can try to analyze me all day long, but at the end of the day, being honest with each other - both the Ds and Rs are equally opposed to actual God given / natural / inherent / absolute
unalienable Rights. And again, when one person's Rights are disrespected and you don't speak out then silence is consent.
The difference between you and me is that I would fight to the death for your Right to say what you believe. By your earlier silence, we all realize you would not do the same for me. Know this:
There are some issues these discussion boards will NOT allow me the same leeway they will for you. And
all discussion boards are quick to remind us they are privately owned. But, just like a trip to Starbucks, being privately owned does not give the owner the authority to discriminate against you. But, they do. It's just that the average American will not complain, resist or DO anything until it's their ass or their Rights on the line.