Gates: Libya not a threat, Was Not 'Vital National Interest' to Intervene

[chrisrobin]

^ I think Kuli may have been a little rough here.

I think he'd be the first to agree that we have two or three trolls who have no interest whatsoever in having a genuine discussion on any subject, let alone the ability, as has become nakedly apparent, to have an intelligent discussion.

We have had example upon example of these few posters landing in almost every thread with the intention of either derailing any reasonable discussion, to insult other posters with hackneyed epithets and/or to divert attention away from the topic at hand.

Unfortunately, at least three of these avatars have so completely demolished any credibility they might have had to the point of destroying any thread, simply by posting in it.

Hence, the end of any possibility of genuine discussion.

Unless people finally and once and for all, stop feeding them and learn to put them on Ignore where they belong.

Thanks, RB! Good advice.
Not putting them on Ignore reminds me of an old Woody Allen gag:
"I keep getting long-distance calls from one of my ex-girlfriends... collect." Obviously, this begs the question: why do insist on accepting the charges?

 

[White Eagle]

^ I think Kuli may have been a little rough here.

I think he'd be the first to agree that we have two or three trolls who have no interest whatsoever in having a genuine discussion on any subject, let alone the ability, as has become nakedly apparent, to have an intelligent discussion.

We have had example upon example of these few posters landing in almost every thread with the intention of either derailing any reasonable discussion, to insult other posters with hackneyed epithets and/or to divert attention away from the topic at hand.

Unfortunately, at least three of these avatars have so completely demolished any credibility they might have had to the point of destroying any thread, simply by posting in it.

Hence, the end of any possibility of genuine discussion.

Unless people finally and once and for all, stop feeding them and learn to put them on Ignore where they belong.

Ok I'll do it. I don't like to put people on ignore because it is funny what they can come up with each time.
Ok Laitka and Justapixel on ignore.

 

[rareboy]

^ Okay....

You could just pretend to ignore them then.

And respond to them by crafting an oblique counter-argument without either quoting them...

And you know that someone is always going to quote them....because as you note, some days you just need to see how unbelievably outrageous the obsessive and partisan fringe are in order to reassure oneself that the rest of the world is still moderate.

 

[White Eagle]

^ Okay....

You could just pretend to ignore them then.

And respond to them by crafting an oblique counter-argument without either quoting them...

And you know that someone is always going to quote them....because as you note, some days you just need to see how unbelievably outrageous the obsessive and partisan fringe are in order to reassure oneself that the rest of the world is still moderate.

Well, now you've screwed me up! I hate making decisions this early. Oh, wait, it's almost noon.