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Silent3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:08 AM
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Remember: Giving the benefit of the doubt is for losers
If you don't immediately turn the slightest hint of irregularity, or even seeming irregularity, into suspicion, you're taking too big a chance that you'll miss the only sign you'll ever get of the REAL story behind the scenes.

If you don't immediately convert suspicion into certainly of guilt, you risk being naive. You risk being stupid. You risk being duped.

Any failing of The Enemy is a fatal flaw, inexcusable, and irredeemable. Any failing of any employee, associate, supporter or supporting organization is as good as a failing of The Enemy his-/her-/itself, and it's probably criminal, probably done under direct orders.

No, definitely criminal and definitely done under direct orders.

(For the people you yourself support, however, normal, even very generous, allowances for human failings, and for the fact that it's impossible for one to control and reign in everyone associated with oneself is completely understandable, and only The Enemy would be so crass as to suggest or even hint otherwise.)

Patient gathering of facts is a luxury we cannot afford. Reserving judgment is for wimps. "Maybe", "perhaps", and "it seems to me" are just weasel words for people too weak to stand up for The Truth and fight The Power.

Anyone who doesn't jump to the same conclusion you do, as quickly as you do, is either naive, complicit with The Enemy, or both. You must sneeringly call these people to account at any chance you get.

Judge quickly. Judge harshly. Judge loudly. Judge without reservation or qualification. Otherwise THEY win, and you lose.

Oh, and if you think this is whole post is directed at you, it is. This post is about the first recent event that comes to mind that you think I'm taking about, it's because I support your enemies and opponents and a contrary position to yours, and because I'm too stupid to appreciate how smart and how justified and perceptive you really are -- about whatever.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:11 AM
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1. Aw, only REPUBLICANS do that kind of stuff
--p!
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Silent3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:12 AM
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2. Oops!
Reading this forum almost made me forget that. ;)
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:51 AM
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3. too late, Christopher Hitchens!
:P


i am so on to you.
dp
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Silent3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:55 AM
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5. Actually...
...I'm more of a Richard Dawkins fan. ;)
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:54 AM
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4. One time is a shame,
second time is an unfortunate coincidence, third time? Houston we have a problem.
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Silent3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:57 AM
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6. Of course, if the first, second, and third time...
...are all on shaky ground and about disparate people and things and events, they still don't add up to very much of anything to justifiably hitch one's vehemence to.
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Silent3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 08:19 PM
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7. Okay, it's cheesey kicking my own thread...
...but it still seems very relevant to the general venom level today.
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NastyRiffraff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 08:47 PM
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8. I'll kick it for you!
And recommend it too.

Great post! And sadly, true of many in DU.

:kick:
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NastyRiffraff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 08:49 PM
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9. Well bummer...to late to rec.
But I can kick again!
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