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Reposting my post from the other thread here.

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I've pushed the abuse button a few times, but only on posts that used extremely offensive profanity or were over-the-top personal attacks on another poster that were not germane to the topic being discussed. In rare cases, I've pushed it when people who lost an argument descended into nasty ad hominem tirades against the other person.

From the Free Republic Home Page:

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This is why I personally try to find a constitutional aspect to whatever issue or thread that I choose to participate in.

I try to write in the third person indefinite style and avoid direct personal statements (like how Congress has rules that debate must be directed at the Chair and not other members).

I try to state my case concisely (but completely) so that others have the opportunity to understand my complete thought process before engaging me. I find that short, terse fragments of thoughts only leads the reader to fill in blanks that were not intended but that provoke unwanted responses.

I believe that once I speak on a matter and complete a dialogue with another reader to make my thinking clear, I am done with the matter. The reader is free to decide who made the better point; hounding the other person into submission to my opinion is pointless.

And I avoid the ad hominem at all costs. Name-calling, taunts, profane accusations, and closing posts with insinuations or putting words in the other person's mouth goes against everything that a reasoned debate should be about.

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-PJ

Ranked choice voting is unconstitutional. It violates equal protection because only the people who voted for the loser gets to change his vote between rounds. Nobody else can change their minds now that the field has changed.

Also, as opposed to run-off elections, ranked choice voting doesn't allow for people who didn't vote in the general election to cast votes in subsequent "rounds." Only the general election voters who "ranked" their vote get to have votes counted in "run-off" rounds.

Ranked-choice voting actually disenfranchises most voters.

-PJ

29 Electoral College votes is not something to just hand-wave away. Splitting the Florida vote could very well lead to a Trump/Harris administration.

-PJ

Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world
Where Canada can be tropical
Except for Scotia
Sco-Sco-Sco-Sco-Scotia

-PJ

I don't think it's you.

I think that ever since 9/11 and the crazy conspiracies about bombs having been planted ahead of time, or that the burning jet fuel melted the steel beams, the reaction was a new coined term of "truther" that was applied to adherents of those conspiracy theories -- people who claimed to know the "truth" of what really happened.

In 2008, the "truther" term was converted into "birther" to attack people who questioned the authenticity of Barack Obama's on-line birth certificate.

Ever since then, the suffix "-er" as applied to any noun is used as an ad hominem to attack or discredit someone's support or beliefs. That's why using a term like "Trumper" can be seen as having its roots in the birther/truther movement, and is therefore seen by some as a personal attack.

Others might use it as a shortcut to represent a general area of support, but personally I abhor "thought" shortcuts because it leaves things open for interpretation.

-PJ

we all know the truth here

I love these "we all know..." statements that offer up no proof of their assertions because it is something they say is so plain to see that "we all know" it to be true.

Democrats expect full benefit of doubt from the LAAP-dog media for everything they say, while Republicans must withstand a barrage of "fact checks" and accusations of lying for anything they say.

-PJ

But somehow Trump must go to prison for it?

Whatever "it" is, it wasn't a planted hoax against the opposition candidate that cost the government $32 million for the Mueller investigation to unravel, nor another $7 million for the Durham report to investigate the roots of the Russia hoax.

-PJ

Stainless steel gum is still okay, right?

Chewing it will be hard on your teeth.

-PJ

If I want to use mouthwash, I use half hydrogen peroxide, half water, then rinse with plain water.

I do that too, but it's not recommended for daily use; perhaps once a week.

The hydrogen peroxide will damage the enamel on the teeth if used too frequently.

-PJ

I've pushed the abuse button a few times, but only on posts that used extremely offensive profanity or were over-the-top personal attacks on another poster that were not germane to the topic being discussed. In rare cases, I've pushed it when people who lost an argument descended into nasty ad hominem tirades against the other person.

From the Free Republic Home Page:

Please enjoy our forum, but also please remember to use common courtesy when posting and refrain from posting personal attacks, profanity, vulgarity, threats, racial or religious bigotry, or any other materials offensive or otherwise inappropriate for a conservative family audience...

Free Republic is a site dedicated to the concerns of traditional grassroots conservative activists. We're here to discuss and advance our conservative causes in a more or less liberal-free environment. We're not here to debate liberals. We do not want our pages filled with their arrogant, obnoxious, repugnant bile. Liberals, usurpers, and other assorted malcontents are considered unwelcome trolls on FR and their accounts and or posts will be summarily dismissed at the convenience of the site administrators.

Free Republic does not advocate or condone racism, violence, rebellion, secession, or an overthrow of the government. Free Republic advocates a return to constitutionally limited government, reserving all government powers not expressly delegated by the constitution to the United States to the States respectively, or the people, emphasizing sovereign state governments, local government, self-government and self-rule, while restricting government powers to only those enumerated in the constitution...

This is why I personally try to find a constitutional aspect to whatever issue or thread that I choose to participate in.

I try to write in the third person indefinite style and avoid direct personal statements (like how Congress has rules that debate must be directed at the Chair and not other members).

I try to state my case concisely (but completely) so that others have the opportunity to understand my complete thought process before engaging me. I find that short, terse fragments of thoughts only leads the reader to fill in blanks that were not intended but that provoke unwanted responses.

I believe that once I speak on a matter and complete a dialogue with another reader to make my thinking clear, I am done with the matter. The reader is free to decide who made the better point; hounding the other person into submission to my opinion is pointless.

And I avoid the ad hominem at all costs. Name-calling, taunts, profane accusations, and closing posts with insinuations or putting words in the other person's mouth goes against everything that a reasoned debate should be about.

-PJ

Look at their history. "Palestinians" do not relocate, they infiltrate.

The so-called "Palestinians" are simply Syrian and Jordanian trouble-makers who were kicked out of those countries for following the paramilitary group Fatah led by Yasser Arafat (a native of Egypt) in the 1960s. They then fled to Lebanon and Fatah's militant branch called Black September committed the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of 11 Israeli athletes.

After that, Arafat aligned the PLO with Lebanese rebels during their civil war in the late 1970s until Arafat was finally expelled from Lebanon in 1982.

Arafat then settled in Tunisia. After a failed assassination attempt, Arafat relocated his headquarters in Iraq. After Arafat sided with Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, other Arab nations cut off funding of Arafat and the PLO. After Arafat signed the 1993 Oslo Accords, he relocated to the Gaza Strip, and later Ramallah where he died in 2004.

In 2005, Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip and turned control of the area over to Fatah. In 2007, Fatah was defeated by Hamas, an Islamic Jihadist group that instituted Islam Law, forced out all Christian schools and businesses, and began its campaign of continuous indiscriminate rocket attacks against Israel.

The point of all this is that the so-called "Palestinians" are really the descendants of cast-off radicals from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Iraq. Let those countries take them in again. They cause trouble wherever they go, and we don't need them to gain a foothold here to continue their Jihad from within the United States.

-PJ

there is a complete lake of regard for other posters on this site.

I promise (🤞) to make my posts shorter from now on.

-PJ

Are you on his ping list? He sends out PM's now after he got tired of being harassed by Humblegunner.

-PJ

No matter how they are prepared, they will vote for democrats as they did in New York

AND... they will STILL vote in New York too, because they will still receive their absentee ballots.

-PJ

Cohen is joining in on the Topper game? He can't compete with the MSNBC crowd who specialize in seeing who can say something more outrageous than the last person.

-PJ

This isn't Gateway Pundit, it's Conservative Treehouse.

-PJ

-PJ

"Books, young man, books. Thousands of them. If time wasn't so important, I'd show you something. My library. Thousands of books."

-PJ

You know what they say:

Every time a New York jury convicts Donald Trump, another billionaire gets his wings and flees the city forever!

-PJ

Except the second time around the predicate crime is known and a defense can be prepared.

That is, unless Bragg and Merchan can come up with three new suggestions for possible crimes that Trump is absolutely positively guilty of without due process.

-PJ