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[NEWS] Yet again the FCC is threatening net neutrality (PETITION)
Kumquat:
Reminder az boys, leave a nasty message for flake and gossar
Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on December 01, 2017, 07:58:10 PM ---also notice how throughout this entire thread I have not said once whether I am for or against net neutrality
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I never said you were against it, throughout any of my posts (saying you used a fallacy doesn't count since I think you're still trying to make up your mind on it, finding counterarguments is part of that process). Should I make some crazy insult about how you have a viral infection because you assumed something incorrect? No, because that would be supporting the extreme degradation of political discussion that has grabbed this forum by the balls. Everyone makes mistakes, that's okay.
I actually did make a mistake though, I meant to say "guilt by association" instead of ad hominem. If I say that Carl Marx was pro-free-speech for example that doesn't lessen my argument, it's just an irrelevant fact that contributes nothing, especially when so much other evidence has already been provided (This is particularly relevant for Net Neutrality).
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: Mr Queeba on December 01, 2017, 02:12:37 PM ---reddit is charging in with it's pitchforks full-on again, this time at senators. they're lynching senators that sold to the telecom lobbyists, and approving senators that refused to sell and are trying to defend net neutrality
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is a 72 virgins joke applicable yet
Planr:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on December 01, 2017, 09:11:39 PM ---is a 72 virgins joke applicable yet
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you should exchange your santa hat for a turban and then youll be good to go
TristanLuigi:
--- Quote from: Kumquat on December 01, 2017, 07:59:53 PM ---Reminder az boys, leave a nasty message for flake and gossar
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forget i forgot to contact Flake about the tax bill
which, for the record, is A) at least as important/damaging as net neutrality, probably more and B) congress can actually do something about it
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on December 01, 2017, 07:58:10 PM ---not what I'm saying
if you took a stance on something and said "See? Even Charles Manson and Vladimir Lenin supported this! Get on board!" then that's pretty loving laughable at best and self-defeating at worst
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i mean you're right that it's a piss-poor argument (popularity does not make the truth) but are you really implying that Sanders = Lenin
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on December 01, 2017, 07:58:10 PM ---also notice how throughout this entire thread I have not said once whether I am for or against net neutrality yet you're all so rabies-induced that you can't tell the difference between someone who's on the fence and someone who disagrees with you
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to be fair, usually when you argue with someone it's because you disagree with them