(07-24-2018, 06:03 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(07-23-2018, 07:38 PM)mikesez Wrote: I'm just asking you to take back the one comment that I downvoted, that's all.
Anybody on this board can ask me what I believe. 
I don't think you would want anybody on this board telling you what you believe. 
and likewise I don't appreciate you telling the whole board what I believe, especially considering you got it wrong.
If you want to flesh my beliefs out more, ask me questions.
Assumptions and accusations are a bad route. They are not civil. We have to be civil with each other if we expect this nation to last beyond our generation as a democratic Republic.

It's no assumption to judge your words on their merits using the common definitions. You continually take words and use them as you think they should be not as they are, so you end up with faulty conclusions, like your mistaken use of HSTheory, where you now disagree with my perfectly reasonable example. This puts you at a disadvantage if you're trying to convince people that you're right. Like your use of civility here, the intent of your word is "submit", not civil. No, I won't take it back because I'm right. In your misbegotten use of Horse Shoe Theory you either believe Waters is what I said, or you were wrong about the Mansons, or you are buzzing from the cognitive dissonance, or you're just trolling.

You are misinterpreting my words and blaming me for it.  You should be asking questions to clarify your understanding of what I'm trying to say.
If you think I'm being inconsistent about Maxine Waters vs. the Manson girls, maybe I am.  Wouldn't be the first time for any of us to be inconsistent about something.
But I don't think I'm being inconsistent.  
The Manson girls attempted to kill the President.  They were violent.  They had no official role in government.
Maxine Waters hasn't even called for violence.  She simply called for the trend of Trump enablers being trespassed out of public restaurants to continue.  And she has an official role in government.
So yes, I am applying different rules to how I categorize these two people, and I think that's fine.  
I think putting them both this broad category of "extreme political views" is not very illuminating.

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