@hightor,
hightor wrote:My guess is that it turned into a proverbial **** show, which seems to be the right-wing tactic of choice for shutting down any discussion on A2K these days.
Hardly. When conservatives defend ourselves from progressive lies, the point is not to shut down discussion. The point is to defend ourselves from vicious lies.
If progressives shut down their own discussions by diverting their own threads into pointless name-calling, there's quite a bit of poetic justice in that, but it's nothing to do with conservative tactics.
What a2k needs is a section with much stricter moderation. If progressive name-calling was always removed, there would never be a need for people to defend themselves against progressive name-calling.
I know that's nothing that any of us here can make happen. It would be up to Robert to implement such a change. But it is still the way to solve the problem of progressives wrecking threads over and over again.