[truthkeeper]

I am just dead sick and tired of this total black and white you cannot disagree one iota with my thinking or you are a complete and utter idiot/ugly/fat/evil/hateful/satanic/porn loving/child eating/any other bad thing I can think of/ mindset here. Everyone seems brittle and completely ready to jump at everyone else’s throat. Now I will be called something. Hopefully just fat. :)

Yep, FR was a lot more fun when it wasn't an echo chamber. But that's just me.

[brytlea]

I like to debate, I don’t think people have to agree with me (and sometimes I change my mind and learn something, otherwise I would just not bother to go out and read what’s out there and engage other people in discussions). But it’s gotten to where I don’t like to get FReepmail, and sometimes I dread seeing that I have a ping. And I’m not always immune, and I do get dragged into the mud too (and that’s my own fault, I should learn to just hold my tongue and shut up).
But seriously, we should be able to have varied opinions, maybe even stupid ones, without the really really nasty stuff. I know the fastest way to get someone to become rock solid on a wrong opinion is to attack them and tell them how stupid they are. They turn you off and just go look for someone who agrees with them.

[cblue55]

If Obama’s education is what it means to be “schooled” I’ll take a pile of dirt over him to be president. Krauthamer is clueless. Palin is my choice!