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by throwanem 3150 days ago
I understand that it's not pleasant to be accused of attempting to manipulate opinion. If you've spent little time here, and especially if you don't have showdead enabled in your account options, you may well be unaware of the large increase in such activity which took place here before and during the election season. The account you are using shows every sign of having been created for such purpose; I enumerated most of those signs in my prior comment. One I overlooked there is that, when frequent participants here create "throwaway" accounts for the purpose of speaking without attribution, they generally acknowledge those accounts as such. You have not done that, either.

And so far you have used this account, with all those stigmata, to contribute nothing of value; of the adjectives in your comment to which I originally responded, all save one ("latest") could be replaced with 'sinful' and the comment remain precisely as meaningful as it started out. You do nothing to support your claims of moral or intellectual failure; you merely insist upon them, and when those claims are challenged, insist on them still harder.

I grant this is a useful style of discourse among those who agree with you, or who are susceptible to believing that something is so awful that even to examine it for themselves and try to draw their own conclusions on its merit risks contaminating them with some sort of social or intellectual pestilence. You will find very few of the latter sort here, and even those of the former tend in my experience to prefer engaging on a higher level than mere accusations of heresy.