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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: hobo who wrote (65)	1/9/2001 1:38:14 AM
From: hobo	Respond to of 82486

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers." ~ Carl Sagan of course, you can't ask a right-winger much, since everything must be accepted by "dogma". ah, i know why... their answers can't have much depth. i.e. 'my way, or the highway' ____________________ grub ! rats... i need one more '6' then it would be meaningful -gg-

To: hobo who wrote (65)	1/9/2001 6:16:53 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Good morning, toscano, My, that was a weighty tome. :) In the end, our acts on this earth (and specifically on SI) are laid bare. People will judge for themselves. I remain mildly interested in the fact that the LWP is such an object of fascination. But frankly, it's far more interesting to discuss issues than lob grenades, so I'm going to focus on the business of the threads I run. You are a good friend and I appreciate the time and energy it took for you to lay this out.

To: hobo who wrote (65)	1/9/2001 9:06:53 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Now why should the LIBERAL porch be unmoderated? So conservatives can some over and ruin it? I understand that they would probably like to ruin it- but they have their OWN porch that we (or at least I) do not want them to unmoderate. Now why do they want to come to our porch and we (or at least I) don't want to go to theirs? Why is this so important to Jlallen? This is really interesting. It isn't about free speech- because that doesn't apply on SI anyway. I think it's about control and power. I suppose it makes a conservative feel weak and powerless not to be able to harass a group of liberals sitting out of his reach. Which makes me wonder WHY??? Why do they want to harass us? It isn't like they want to debate- that really doesn't happen. What happens on SI is both sides repeat the same old stuff over and over again - as if by repetition there is something to be "won". Why not go on this way- with the RWP saying ugly things about liberals (and apparently demonizing poet) and let's not forget the brilliant free speech move of getting YYB suspended, and the LWP saying ugly things about conservatives. Why put them together? Why why why? Love of violence? Maybe that's it. They just like conflict a whole heck of a lot more than we do.