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[quote=Anonymous][quote=TheManWithAUsername]There's not just one rabid Obama hater here, though, is there? There's the all-lower-case guy* - I think he's "panty-sniffer" to you who have been here longer.** The athleticism obsessive seems like a different guy to me.

And what happened to "brace for impact" guy? Was that just sniffer? I'd be surprised if that guy is still here, w/o his catch phrase - he was pretty devoted to that.

I would guess four Fauxians at least:
- sniffer
- "brace for impact"
- bowling is everything
- a generic Fauxian

Then there are me, Jeff, and an anonymous guy, overrepresenting the One True Left.

Seems like only a few dedicated Dems, including the one who pops by to say we dedicated leftists are racist haters bringing down the man.

And takoma...left for sure...mainstream Dem?

That's as best as I've been able to tell. I haven't noticed any non-TP Rep regulars here. Maybe they're avoiding association with the embarrassing relatives.

* I tend to think of everyone here as men. I won't explore why, b/c that's boring.
** I'd like to hear the story - it involves Obama's campaign plane, the word "stinky," and a banning? Probably not nearly as interesting as that sounds.[/quote]

Sniffer is also the "...." guy, athleticism and I'm pretty sure brace for impact, and he can't spell.  His weird thing is that he connects political ideology to other human qualities such as smell, physical attractiveness, athletic ability, more recently mental illness, etc.  He imagines that conservative ideology makes a person more "healthy" and that liberal ideology causes disease.  So he projects images onto people based on how he views their politics.  And sometimes it gets creepy.  He is completely inconsistent in his complaints but that does not bother him in the least.

There was one other guy, an angry guy who would keep reposting the same rant, get in a fight with Jeff, and then complain about being censored even though you could still see his posts in at least a few places.  He is easily distinguished because he is more angry and less of a candidate for mental health services.  Maybe he is your generic fauxian.

The fact that I even can identify some people by their grammar or line of argument in an anonymous forum is even more convincing proof that I should just depart.  I can't remember the last time we had a good conversation about Israel, Arab Spring, Libya, etc.  And by "good" I mean a discussion of direction and outcomes for the region, not who in American politics managed to look good or bad on any given day.

A while back I tried some thoughtful posts about various subjects and got little traction.  I then tried some provocative posts that disguised real issues (like the future of the Republican party) and didn't get anything interesting, even though there should be a real debate about direction.  As a test I created a crap thread, something like "Boehner who's your daddy" and got flooded with responses.  Now I find myself posting to balance out the list of conservative mocking posts with equivalent mocking posts from the left.  And that's actually rather sad.

But the fact is that I can't get much honest conservative discussion from them, no matter what I try.  It's all flame, no spark.  I don't know if there aren't any smart ones, or if collectively the whole thing has been brought down by a few idiots.  Sorry I didn't respond to your (or Takoma's?) budget thread.  I know you tried to do the same thing, but I recall doing the same exercise a few months ago and I think we posted about it.

The sad thing is that I want a forum with different ideologies because debate is good.  But it has to have some actual content.  There is good conservative content, but I have yet to see it displayed in an online forum.  Maybe it only resides in think tanks and editorial columnists.[/quote]

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