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Originally Posted by AntEater
You must've sofar ignored Heartc, but he's been around for a while, also in threads on this topic.
He's german allright, but he's got a bit of a "colonial" attitude, to put it mildly.
Plainly, he's so pro american that I were ashamed of such ass lickers if I were an american.
Nothing against american or pro american standpoints, but he's constantly lecturing his countrymen on not being pro american enough.
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Maybe that is why I started to overlook him sometime ago. I am not angry when people do not disagree with me. for exampe there is HappyTimes, who also disagrees with me on most things, but neither am I angry at him, nor does he personally attack me and tell lies about me. And with others it is sometimes agreeing, sometimes disagreeing as well - no problem, it's okay. just when somebody like SD or heartc or August think they must push their "argument" by insulting me, accusing me of lies, putting things in my mouth and quote me out of conctext to distorrt what I said and get a score for them over that fake quote, and agendas they claim I have but in fact have not, and I see myself being subject of slandering - then I am getting a bit intolerant to these people in return, yes. In earlier years I would have posted endlessly in return, and we remember the useless flame wars that came from that in the wake of the Iraq war. Today I put such fabulous debators on the list, and make my life easier and free from personal insults, and help to make the forum a little bit more peaceful by evading any future fights and friction with these figures that way.
It is not about censoring other opinions, or not wishing to deal with them. It is about not tolerating bad manner and unpolite behavior and personal diffamation, and refusing to waste time and energy with such superior gentlemen. I continue discussions currently with three board members, over three different threads, and all of them and me disagree, but nevertheless we keep it friendly and humorous and are on the way to become kind of pen-pals, in fact two of them are alteady that,m since two or three years - I doubt that I have deficits in being able to bear other opinions. Just the personal mud-throwing started by some people almost by reflex when "Skybird" has shown up - is becoming annoying at times. Skybirdophobia it is, i think.
A small gain for me, but a huge gain for forum peace on this board:
