As I just said on another thread:

The ----- of consequence rarely arrives lubed.

#25 Sorry MaSturbationGetsTough, blaming Biden for anything doesn't work any more, you smooth-brained, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breather.

Not after the moment you and your ilk, following last November's election, laughed and sneered that now the GOP now owns all of Washington DC (POTUS, Congress, SCOTUS). "Hahaha, you libs! We own you!" you chortled.

Well, you bought it, MaSturbationGetsTough.

You broke it, MaSturbationGetsTough.

Now you own it, MaSturbationGetsTough.

Sucks to be you, MaSturbationGetsTough

#22 Reptation of lies by the rightwing echoes the propogandist's refrain:

"Repeat a lie often enough and loud enough that it becomes truth."

How about, "Keep repeating the truth even louder until it sinks in"?

Or are those of us on the other side of the aisle are supposed to handcuff ourselves of that communication reality?

Because it is "unfriendly."

Or it is "provocative."

Or it is "unproductive."

Or it is the "wrong tack."

I respect you, Lamp.

What tack should I (and others) take?

If not shoving it in their own faces as much as they've been shoving it into our faces?

#25 Yeah, my comment was nothing more than an attack of the poster, with little to gainsay what was said in its comments.

So?

Isn't that exactly what those of us on this side of the aisle have been receiving for more than a decade now?

As I said, why should we hold back. I am in the Reinheitsgebot camp: give it to them as hard as they gave, and then some.

The days of being a kind of Algonquin Round Table discussion on a bulletin board is long gone.

'Tis a scorched Earth campaign, and there's only going to be one winning side.

You might not like my (or Reinheitsgebot's) attacks on the MAGAts, but you, I and Reinheitsgebot are all in the same war, just fighting different battles in the way we think is best.

And the best advice I can think of is that those of us on our side should not conflate fighting the good fight with being an internecine warrior at the same time.

There are no winners in an internecine war, nor are there any medals handed out for the internecine warrior after the war is over, and all the damage is done.

#27 Effective: you are a piece of ---- excrement.

Evasive: your comment makes you look like a piece of ---- excrement.

That's how I see it.

#26 "Isn't that (in reference: "nothing more than an attack of the poster") exactly what those of us on this side of the aisle have been receiving for more than a decade now?"

Hope that helps.

#27 I see no need to Poo-Pourri the comment.

If they're ---- excrement, they're ---- excrement.

No "you look like" ---- excrement.

You are ---- excrement.

I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

We're fighting the same war, just using different tactical methods.

Meanwhile, the strategic goal is the same:

End the orange-induced nightmare that's descended upon America.

Agreed?

#31 In more than four decades of posting on BBSs, AOL, the Retort and other venues, primarily political venues, I have never once seen an epiphany from someone I was communicating with announcing, "A_Friend, you are right and I was wrong! I've changed my position!"

I used to subscribe to that noble "If one tries to change opinions," especially with the addition of "the opinions of other readers," but the reality is that's just pyrite and not the real thing.

The reality is that a venue like this is a venting arena, and not much more.

You might feel good about making a strong point, and maybe, just maybe, someone will mark it "Newsworthy." Or maybe someone here will respond back to you.

But do not kid yourself into thinking that this is, as I said earlier, a kind of Algonquin Round Table, where noble and sane ideas will be exchanged and met with respect, consideration and, perhaps, a change of mind.

Nope. This is definitely not that.

This is the Retort.

#38 There was a time here when a Retort thread would actually go north of 1,000 comments.

It was noticeable because our host would have to break the comments into 2 segments, Comments 1-1,000 and Comments 1,001-onward. Threads with 200, 300, 400, or more comments in each tread was not unusual. Heck, logging in first thing in the morning might reveal an overnight "discussion" of dozens, sometimes 100 or more comments in a single, hot thread.

"It's 4:34 in the morning and you're still arguing...

"AmericanUnity, on the ravages of addiction.

Your point about 300 comments on The Register's website (translating to an unknown larger number of Talosians passively reading), if extrapolated here, would lead to a mystery audience of what, dozens?

The front page currently has 24 threads, with a total of 370 comments among them. This averages to a little more than 15 comments per thread.

But I understand and appreciate what you're saying, Lamp. And reiterate that I respect your POV and enjoy your contributions.

Most especially your #36: "A different approach to a same end goal?"

As one regular Drudge Denizen used to say: Oohrah!