Preference on healthcare reform issue

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

No, please - continue to dart out and call names at those who hold differing opinions than yours.
It's your duty as a Libertarian not to tolerate differences of opinion, other than your own

you mean, like this:

Originally Posted by Riot

Hardly. The comment was in regards to some people on this list who repeatedly, broadly and stupidly paint all government with the same broad brush of their ignorance.

Some are apparently to dense to realize that their ability to sit on an internet list and spout off, complaining about our government in broad, general first-grade terms while completely ignoring - or being ignorant of - the thousands of other ways our government has made life in this country better - is the sanctimonious crap.
It's just more, "Keep your government hands off my Medicare" - type true ignorance.
Someone thinks the FDA is worthless or useless? Go ahead. Abolish it as Arl Jim would love to see, and see what happens to your safety and lifestyle. FCC? Same thing. Agriculture? The Federal Court system?

Welcome back to life in the Third World. Your hard work and ingenuity will serve you well, but you sure won't enjoy the lifestyle and safety you have now. Who gave you the environment to be able to "earn where we are". Your government.

i mean, if you want to call names and bash folks with a different opinion, go for it. but the part where you complain when people do the same to you-well, that gets old. it's almost, dare i say (dare, dare!) hypocritical. you justify doing it( you once said "he started it"---but anti-trust is five?!), but whine when others do it.

[Riot]

you mean, like this:

Yeah, 'Zig. That was after you called one of my posts, "sanctimonious crap", right?

Calling someone sanctimonious doesn't count as name-calling or insult when you do it?

But if I respond after your post in kind, I'm suddenly the bad one?

you justify doing it( you once said "he started it"---but anti-trust is five?!)

So I guess you missed the part where Lori called me an idiot? Then she said I made her call me names? And that is why I asked if she were five? And you are getting after me about calling Lori five, but that's okay for her to call me an idiot in your book?

Thanks, 'Zig, that's good to know about you <vbg>

So I guess it's not offensive to you for some down here to hurl insults at people (idiot, ****, stupid, etc) - it's just not right when the recipients start returning the fire? <vbg>

I no longer feel compelled to always ignore the rude crap some of the bullies down here fling around on a regular basis. Sorry. If you can't debate politics "like an adult", as Simon likes to say, and have to resort to discussing the poster and their intelligence, etc, expect to get it back in one's face. Judging by my private messages today and yesterday, that isn't a minority opinion at all <g>

[Antitrust32]

please point out where i said you made me call you names?

this was my quote "I'd stop calling you names if you kept your idiotic opinions to yourself"

but you are the Queen at making stuff up thats for sure.. or pulling it out of your ass.

congrats on your private messages, you are still an idiot.

actually, here is the deal, if you stop coming off as such an arrogant jerk in all your posts, maybe people will be nice to you back.

[Riot]

please point out where i said you made me call you names?

this was my quote "I'd stop calling you names if you kept your idiotic opinions to yourself"

Originally Posted by Riot
You are actually blaming me, for 'making you' call me names?

Lori: yes I am thank you very much.

but you are the Queen at making stuff up thats for sure..

Apparently not as much as you.

congrats on your private messages, you are still an idiot.

You are an idiot, too We can start a club!

actually, here is the deal, if you stop coming off as such an arrogant jerk in all your posts, maybe people will be nice to you back.

Actually, I don't make "deals" with people who are nasty to me.

You are free to think I am an arrogant jerk, and I have an awfully lot of people that are already very nice to me, thanks

Even on Derby Trail, where I dare to have voted for Obama, and refuse to be the least bit ashamed of it

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

Yeah, 'Zig. That was after you called one of my posts, "sanctimonious crap", right?

Calling someone sanctimonious doesn't count as name-calling or insult when you do it?

But if I respond after your post in kind, I'm suddenly the bad one?



So I guess you missed the part where Lori called me an idiot? Then she said I made her call me names? And that is why I asked if she were five? And you are getting after me about calling Lori five, but that's okay for her to call me an idiot in your book?

Thanks, 'Zig, that's good to know about you <vbg>

So I guess it's not offensive to you for some down here to hurl insults at people (idiot, ****, stupid, etc) - it's just not right when the recipients start returning the fire? <vbg>

I no longer feel compelled to always ignore the rude crap some of the bullies down here fling around on a regular basis. Sorry. If you can't debate politics "like an adult", as Simon likes to say, and have to resort to discussing the poster and their intelligence, etc, expect to get it back in one's face. Judging by my private messages today and yesterday, that isn't a minority opinion at all <g>

ok, like i said, i don't care if you call people names, or if anyone else does-if anyone chooses to do that, it's their business. what i was trying to explain to you was that as soon as you think someone has insulted YOU, you go on and on about it. but when you return the favor, you find a way to justify it. that's why i said you're a hypocrite about it.

as for pm's, i'm sure they're sent that way for a reason. it's why i don't bother bringing them up, since they have nothing to do with a public discussion. if people don't wish to post here, that's their choice.

and as for me saying something you posted was sanctimonious crap, i was talking about the comment itself, not the poster. you can take that as you will, i don't care. people have taken me to task in the past for things i said, generally i consider what they say-as they may just have a point.