Has anyone considered that guys like Blacken are leaving because this place has become a right-winger circle jerk...?
I'm all for debate, but you guys are simply immune to facts.
Just read the "Drop out of your federal healthcare" thread.
Every single fact and figure I posted in that thread was simply dismissed... my basic mathematical extrapolations were never questioned; my quoted figures were never contested; in fact no ERROR in my argument was ever cited... just circular rationalising, with dismissal itself cited as evidence for dismissal.
Too many threads here follow this formula:
Left Wiger: Don't you guys know Fact A?Right Winger #1: Only liberals believe Fact A.
Left Winger: How is Fact A actually wrong?Right Winger #2: Shut up Left Winger. Hasn't Right Winger #1 pwned you enough regarding Fact A.
Left Winger: But Fact A is actually true, isn't it?Right Winger #3: I love it. Right Winger #1 and Right Winger #2 schooling Left Winger.
Left Winger: But Fact A is actually true... no one is offering a counter argument.Right Winger #4: Left Winger is such a moronic liberal.
Right Winger #3: Left Winger has been exposed as a liar. Quoting made-up facts, oh brother.
Left Winger: Here's my source http://www.FactA.com ...this is a scientifically accepted, provable fact. Is anyone contesting it?Right Winger #1: Yeah, but Fact A doesn't understand economics.
Right Winger #2: Yeah, shut up Left Winger. Haven't Right Winger #2 and Right Winger #3 exposed you as a liar enough already?
Right Winger #3: Yeah, I totally exposed his lies. My tax dollars aren't going towards Fact A.
Right Winger #4: Yeah, total exposure of liberal lies in this thread.
Right Winger #1: I hate it when liberals lie like this about Fact A.
Right Winger #2: But you exposed his lies brilliantly.
Right Winger #3: Yeah, I exposed Left Winger too.
Right Winger #4: Yeah, we all exposed him... we didn't even have to address Fact A, it's enough to call him a liar repeatedly.
Right Winger #1: Anyone else notice that left Winger doesn't post here any more? Why is that?
Simply put guys, no one wants to debate with people who don't understand the facts AND are unwilling to accept facts.
I spent a dozen pages trying to explain that the $3k per person that the French pay for healthcare is LESS than the $7k per person Americans pay... to no avail. That doesn't persuade me to engage in another healthcare debate with you guys... if you simply didn't understand I wouldn't mind explaining these things... but you guys simply don't want to understand.
I come to this board for entertainment and debate... I'm not interested in hammering facts into petulant children who refuse to accept facts. That's no fun.
Seems Blacken and the other quality contributors feel the same way... so congrats Palin-voting-Glenn-Beck-watchers, you've killed this board.
The Luke