A new Board? Any interest?

Science Chic wrote:

frogger wrote: those that prefer a respectful conversation have left. lookslike maybe 75 of the top 150 posters have hit the road. do appreciate seeing more moved to the ring. its a start.

Really? Care to re-count that, or would you rather keep throwing out assumptions and generalizations based on your own anecdotal and defaming "evidence"?

Feel free to keep going down the list of all 150 top posters and count who's actually left, never to return. What's your cut-off for how long they've been gone? A week? A month? A year?

He's been operating in a fact-free-zone for so long, he would know FACTS if they bit him... Thanks for posting the FACTS...

lol

frogger wrote: I missed where rick blamed one side or the other here. Was this assumption made because of what side of the fence he sits on? I failed to see ANY blame exclusively placed on the left for this situation on this board.

Maybe this quote from his post will refresh your memory

It's really the exact same thing we see from the WH and Congress... like when the president calls republicans "the enemy" or Biden refers to them as "terrorists"... it does nothing but widen the divide and generate pure hatred.

That sounds to me like the only comparison Rick sees for the vitriol here is to the left attacking the right.

its a stretch

The examples cited are from the WH. Difficult to make them representative of comments from the 'right' at this point in time. If you think he should also have included comments from Congress, then how many would he have to include from each side to be 'fair and balanced'? And what would that be based upon?

The complaints about bias in the post are totally unfounded, IMO.

jf1acai wrote: The examples cited are from the WH. Difficult to make them representative of comments from the 'right' at this point in time. If you think he should also have included comments from Congress, then how many would he have to include from each side to be 'fair and balanced'? And what would that be based upon?

The complaints about bias in the post are totally unfounded, IMO.

And of course your opinion would be unbiased? NOT.

why would his opinion be biased? do you have facts to support that statement?

frogger wrote: why would his opinion be biased? do you have facts to support that statement?

This is a fact-free-zone...as you have already proved.

archer wrote:

frogger wrote: I missed where rick blamed one side or the other here. Was this assumption made because of what side of the fence he sits on? I failed to see ANY blame exclusively placed on the left for this situation on this board.

Maybe this quote from his post will refresh your memory

It's really the exact same thing we see from the WH and Congress... like when the president calls republicans "the enemy" or Biden refers to them as "terrorists"... it does nothing but widen the divide and generate pure hatred.

That sounds to me like the only comparison Rick sees for the vitriol here is to the left attacking the right.

No, those are just the two most powerful people running the country right now, the ones that said they would try to bridge the divide and be the most transparent ever. I think using our current leaders as examples of divisive language is more effective then going back to past presidents. Feel free to use examples of your own to help make my point... which was to illustrate how 'we" are no better than "they"... but "we" just don't want to admit it or change it. How about you archer, do you want your neighbors to change and be more respectful to each other or have you given up (or do you like the hate?)

It's a friggin message board. Don't take it so seriously.