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Originally Posted by rubecube
The pretty easy solution to not engaging in a political debate is to just not post your opinion. Are you suggesting that the political threads should just be hot take after hot take without any kind of scrutiny or back and forth? Bad and unsupported ideas should just be left unchallenged because "everyone has a right to their own opinion?" Would you apply the same standard to me if I popped up in FoI and repeated some ridiculous mantra about Matt Stajan being a better player than McDavid?
I get not wanting to take the time to respond to one of CHL's or New Era's dissertations, but no one is forcing anyone to. When I see a wall of text, I tend to just scroll past it even if I was already engaging the poster prior to that. I don't really see the debates on CP as competitions, but if they somehow see a non-response to their essays as a win, then good for them.
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I wasn’t talking about you at all rube.
I have no problem for debate and calling people out for ridiculous positions, but this board has gotten to the point where if I see a social or political topic I wouldn’t mind discussing I don’t even bother because I already know who will be there posting their own social agenda 50+ times repeating the same long and Drawn out arguments from the other ten threads they’ve been posting in that day. Look at the Brian Burke thread. What started as a discussion about the Toronto media was derailed into another arena debate and whomever may support a new arena is in the Flames pockettype of rhetoric. Derailed by the same people who derail Every non-sporting thread who never make an appearance on the FOI forum otherwise.It’s absoutely nauseating at this point and I know quite a few long term posters who have left because of it.
This is basically a sports forum, and a lot of sports fans are going to view the world pretty similarly. I guess I don’t understand why people want to come here to discuss politics and argue with the masses over and over again. I think they are just looking for someone to argue with. I don’t think those type of people are worth losing posters over or causing friction with mods due to their trolling.