Bush's War Exercise: The Backpedal

McGentrix wrote:

Setanta wrote:

McGentrix wrote:

I do not forsee a time on A2K when conservatives (the vast minority) are not oppressed, insulted, or attacked. As such, I will give what I get. Now, quit whining about it.

It occurs to me that only a jackass would continue to assert that i, or anyone else in this thread, were whining. Since i would never for the life of me consider characterizing you as a jackass, i can only shake my head and wonder. Is this perhaps some form of mental illness? Are you a paranoid that you actually would expect anyone to believe that you could be "oppressed" in cyberspace? All too often, what you describe here as oppression, insults and attacks are simply cases of people insulting your political heros, which leads you to come out with snotty remarks about people who are whining--at which point, you get what you've paid for.

If I had the time or the inclination, I could look up the multitude of conservatives who have logged on to A2K (sometimes after my suggestion) only to have their posts mocked, to be personally insulted, and to be ganged up on by a vast array of personalities that, at best, could be characterized as assassins... Now I have to tell them about the environment and for the most part they are no longer interested.

You, and others of your ideological ilk, seem to consider any disagreement with you to be "mocking." This is, of course, incorrect. This is mocking:
"McGentrix, you are a typical example of the base born plebiscite thwat should shut up and do as their betters tell them."
Do you understand the difference?

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If you can honestly say that "What a dumb ass Rumsfeld is. So it's okay to invade another country and take it's leader out, kill thousands of it's innocent men, women and children, wipe out it's infastructure, cause complete chaios....etc all to later say that you didn't know what would happen and you knew you didn't know? WTF is that. " is not a whiny, leftist statement, then I really need to re-evaluate my opinion of you.

That is not a "whiny leftist statement." It is a statement of incredulity that a cabinet level appointee would say anything so ridiculous, and that peple would accept such a pathetic excuse.

Ah yes, and of course, your whining about the left is so pithy as be impenetrable.

If I had the time or the inclination, I could look up the multitude of conservatives who have logged on to A2K (sometimes after my suggestion) only to have their posts mocked, to be personally insulted, and to be ganged up on by a vast array of personalities that, at best, could be characterized as assassins... Now I have to tell them about the environment and for the most part they are no longer interested.

Your very post is nothing more than a finely veiled insult towards me. I am fine with it though, as I have been here long enough now to know what flies and what doesn't. I have a very thick skin, but others don't.

If you can honestly say that "What a dumb ass Rumsfeld is. So it's okay to invade another country and take it's leader out, kill thousands of it's innocent men, women and children, wipe out it's infastructure, cause complete chaios....etc all to later say that you didn't know what would happen and you knew you didn't know? WTF is that. " is not a whiny, leftist statement, then I really need to re-evaluate my opinion of you.

mmmmm..... I'm just now forming opinions of people being a newbie, but the first thoughts that came to mind regarding this response are:
1) If you write new conservatives and tell them what the "environment" is and they leave rather than participate, maybe they don't agree with what your idea of a conservative is.
2) I'm still looking for any thinly veiled insult towards you in this thread.
3) Since doglover never made one comment about a party in her statement, I think it's you that is jumping to conclusions and reading what you want to into the statement.
4) Just because you had an experience in the past, doesn't define what the experience will be with someone new, unless you decide it will.

People can be republicans and conservatives and express the same exact sentiments doglover did. I say that in confidence as my brother the republican conservative has done a 180 on the Bush administration since helping to put them in office and has said pretty much the same thing doglover did.

My first opinion is you are edgy and defensive and need to lighten up. I'll re-evaluate as I go along and see what "normal" is for you.

Camille wrote:

mmmmm..... I'm just now forming opinions of people being a newbie, but the first thoughts that came to mind regarding this response are:
1) If you write new conservatives and tell them what the "environment" is and they leave rather than participate, maybe they don't agree with what your idea of a conservative is.
2) I'm still looking for any thinly veiled insult towards you in this thread.
3) Since doglover never made one comment about a party in her statement, I think it's you that is jumping to conclusions and reading what you want to into the statement.
4) Just because you had an experience in the past, doesn't define what the experience will be with someone new, unless you decide it will.

People can be republicans and conservatives and express the same exact sentiments doglover did. I say that in confidence as my brother the republican conservative has done a 180 on the Bush administration since helping to put them in office and has said pretty much the same thing doglover did.

My first opinion is you are edgy and defensive and need to lighten up. I'll re-evaluate as I go along and see what "normal" is for you.

I am so glad to see another liberal grace our presence. Welcome!

A2K is a wonderful place and it is full of a wonderful cast of characters. The atmosphere is very much pro-left, anti-right though. Hopefully you have noticed that by now.