@georgeob1,
georgeob1 wrote:
Debra Law wrote:
Georgeob1: Your modus operandi is never to respond to the actual substance of another member's post. Your modus operandi is diversion. If the topic is Trump, your standard response is ".... but, but, the Cintons". We've discussed this before.
The topic now is "dark money" and its corruption of both the Democratic and Republican political parties. Your response was ".... but, but, labor unions."
Your corporate trollish response was predictable. Diversion and false equivalencies and other logical fallacies that all carry the same message: Democrats bad. Liberals bad.
Your goal is to be divisive, which is detrimental to the vast majority of the people and beneficial to the small minority and those who make money and/or get elected by catering to the them.
I am aware of your modus operandi. Divide and conquer tactics might not work as well as you believe. After all, more and more people are becoming aware that the accumulation of vast wealth and power in the hands of a few causes grave harm to the many.
Debra, you appear to operate iunder the misapprehension that you are empowered to define and set the limits of discorse in this conversation. You are not.
Georgeob1: In my last post addressing you, I went back through the pages and copied and pasted the entire context of our conversation. Context matters. And again, when you responded to me, you quoted my response to you, but left out the preceding context.
It has not escaped my attention that you do not respond to the actual substance of a post, but rather engage in diversion. In other words, you're the one who consistently attempts to redirect the conversation. I noted that as your modus operandi.
I am resisting your attempts to avoid the substance of my posts and to redirect the conversation. It's my resistance of your modus operandi that is now the focus of your objection. If you respond to my posts with a diversionary fallacy of one sort or another, I will reply that your response was predictable in accordance with your modus operandi. If that bothers you, then please address the actual substance of my post.
Another thing I have noticed is a penchant of some people to accuse others of one's own "sins". I've noted that in other posts. For instance, this foible often comes up when intolerant people accuse others of being intolerant of their intolerance. Now you're accusing me of the alleged crime of trying to control the direction of the conversation when that's your crime ... your modus operandi.
Quote:Your common tactics here include the making of distinctions in the absence of any meaningful differences, falsely suggesting they are unique faults peculiar to the object of your criticism.
You then label someone who points out the reather obvious truth and the vacuity of the original assertion as "distracting" the discussion from the empty and misleading assertion that launched it. That is rather tortured nonsense.
Your standard responses, to name a few, are "but, but evil Clinton ... but, but that idiot Obama ... but, but nefarious labor unions". If we must first argue whether your attempted diversionary criticisms are equivalencies or false equivalencies to the subject at hand, then you're controlling the conversation and engaging in the crime you accused me of committing.
Here we go in circles, which is the work of a right wing troll who only wants to wants to engage in divisive rhetoric. I don't agree that people should just talk in circles around each other. If you're unwilling to discuss the actual subject of my posts, then don't respond to my posts.
Quote:What the hell is "dark money"? Is it unique to business contributions? Are you here trying to make a tautology of the proposition? More nonsense.
You know what "dark money" means.
Quote:My responses are my own, they are not those of any corporation, or anyone else. You don't know my thoughts or my goals and your pretentions that somehow you do are merely stupid.
It appears you really believe or imagine you speak for the "vast majority of people". You don't do that either.
I know a right wing troll when I encounter one. Why don't you step out of your partisan mode and try to find some common ground with other people.
