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Originally Posted by browser2920
This has been covered over and over. No mod is going to adjudicate whether that Call is perfect or not. It's a matter of opinion. OTOH if you claim he made a call and he says he didn't, that's a matter of fact. Just quote the post where he says he msde the call and thst's it. Simple.
The reason we keep going over and over is because this same error seems to be the default assumption and keeps getting repeated.
Most, MOST politics issue disputes are not simple fact discussions that can be boiled down to a singular quote as PROOF. The ENTIRE assumption here is 'just quote it'.
If i say you have been a consistent Putin shill and apologist that is usually an IMPRESSION over years of posting and how you rationalize your positions and defenses of Putin and blame on Ukraine.]
If you then say "I have never shilled for Putin quote it', that is not easily done. It could take going back years and re quoting a major part of exchanges to capture the positions. Ones the parties denied to begin with, and thus the dispute, and thus in requoting will not get resolution.
If you then demand i stop saying it as i have not provided 'PROOF you accept' but i say have and point to what i quoted, how, besides a MOD reading and interpretation does it get solved?
We keep coming back to this 'covered ground' as you keep saying 'it will be easy... just quote it or stop saying it', and that simply will not be the case.
Going back to what prompted the origins of this current discussion is how I READ and CLASSIFY months of exchanges with certain posters over questions of Manchin and Sinema, I can hold an opinion they have been more akin to Corporate Media shills in repeating talking points about them. T hey can take great offense to that. YOu, the mod, can say 'quote something that shows them being shills' as if it is a singular quote as opposed to months of excuse making. I can quote months of excuse making and we can all agree to disagree, that does not make me wrong.
But by your rule, when they object and demand a quote it must be supplied because you keep thinking it will be easy to supply.
the poster I disagree with e_d agrees with me and is more vehement about another posters 'right wing talking point shilling'. The other poster does not agree. For either of us to make that case to you would take the citing of numerous posts to establish the pattern as no singular quote generally makes that case.