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Re: Democracy.... Dubya Style
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:24:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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So Bush talks about Freedom and Liberty whist funding gross human rights
abuses in places like Uzbekistan & Israel and you think he is not
“dishonest”?
He hands out “lucrative” contracts to his buddies and you think he is not
corrupt?
Wake up, you are dreaming!
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How could one sleep with your incessant SOS rants?
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Easy: Prove me wrong.
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Ride, Ride, Ride!
JOHN
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When uttered by Scott, “Easy” and “prove me wrong” don’t belong anywhere near
each other.
He happens to be mostly right (about the Bush II Admin and the great stink
emanating from it) this time, but when he’s wrong about something, proving it to
his satisfaction has typically turned out to be impossible to do effectively, at
least in this medium. It has something to do with the nature of discourse here
and his didactic or rhetorical style.
The absolute best you can do is make it blazingly obvious to everyone else (or
at least the clear thinkers among us) that you’ve thorougly destroyed his
argument and debunked his claims, and let it go at that. In my view anyway.
And that’s one of the main reasons why he always gets the last word when he’s
responding to me, even if I agree with him... I’m trying hard not to even get
drawn in to the endless strings of back and forth, it’s a massive timewaster.
I’m surprised that you’ve forgotten that, John! Newbies like Don may not
realise it yet though... Hence this public service announcement. :-)
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| (...) Whereas I usually concur with you, Larry, it seems as of late that Scott had developed a debate style in which his points are backed up and cited, as is hte case with this particular arguement. If the counter arguement to this debate is 'ride (...) (21 years ago, 19-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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