On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:11 PM, denstar <valliants...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The kind of person that uses talking points with wild accusations to
>> discredit others. I think it's from the Alinsky book. I don't need to
>> know anything about you since I just witnessed you doing it.
>
> I bet you can tell a good book by it's cover, too!

Wah? He showed his cards and then said I didn't know what hand he had.
Plain and simple.

> Mighty high horse you have there, Sam.  =)

Are you sure that's the horse?

>> There aren't any extreme righties on this list. It's sad that you
>> think so. It also shows that you must be an extreme lefty to think
>> run-of-the-mill conservatives are extreme righties.
>
> There *are* many right leaning individuals on-list.

right leaning individuals != extreme righties

agreed?

> To claim otherwise is silly.

My point exactly.

> "I'm surrounded by lefties!  Ahhhh!
> First.media.now.this..Must.achieve.balance.arggggg..."  =)

There are more left leaning than right leaning you must admit.
It's the ones that claim they're above the fray, but always have an
opinion that gets to me.

>> Nooooo! Not another "I'm in the center and all others are extremist" person!
>> I think we need to form another label for your group. Centramentalists...
>> center extremist.. I'll need to think about it.
>
> Too bad you didn't use "sweeping accusations" instead of wild ones, or
> I could have poked fun here.  "all others" indeed.  Nice (if a bit
> blatant) spin!

Did I say all?

> Come on man, we're all relatively centrist, for all our leanings, or
> civil discussion would be neigh impossible, and topics here would
> revolve around technology or some-such.  Polite dinner conversation,
> versus nitty gritty realness.

That's why when someone claims "they" are the centrist and others are
extremists I get a little uppity ;)

> "Extreme" is relative, I guess is what I'm on about.

You met my uncle?

> Labels are simplistic in nature.  A new one isn't going to solve the
> problem you have with them.

A little "back atcha" usually opens the eyes a little bit.

> Tho centramentalists does sound pretty catchy.  Sign me up for a XXXL
> t-shirt and a mug.
>
> :DeNacentraMentalIst

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