tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post1903434897205448339..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Big GainsFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-18592738163733862792018-07-23T18:42:55.346-04:002018-07-23T18:42:55.346-04:00Personally, I would never say, "I've done...Personally, I would never say, "I've done nothing wrong." That automatically leaves the impression that your behaviour is at least suspect. Instead, I would answer the question with an angry, "That's an outrageous question! I've done everything right." I would certainly defend my actions, but I would do it in terms that implied that they don't need defending, and that the person who's clearly at fault is my critic.Malcolm Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00672612354161787023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-1035673686995467952018-07-19T01:30:43.214-04:002018-07-19T01:30:43.214-04:00Yes. Continue to act, Not talk. Doing matters.
I&...Yes. Continue to act, Not talk. Doing matters.<br /><br />I've been wondering what to say to Fran and the left. I have not figured it out. I really don't know what to say in one erudite sentence that would put the left down and make me proud for what I said to my daughter.<br /><br />But, continue doing the right thing as you understand it.furballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15779319678886254479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-68493037621323708772018-07-18T12:37:09.288-04:002018-07-18T12:37:09.288-04:00There are two points of importance here:
1. You c...There are two points of importance here:<br /><br />1. You cannot reason a Leftist out of his hatred of us. His position is faith-based, and is therefore immune to logic and evidence.<br /><br />2. If there are third parties listening to the exchange, our best chance of impressing them as superior to our attacker <b><i>appears</i></b> to lie in <b><i>acting</i></b> superior to our attacker: not in reasoning, nor in "civility," but in demonstrated disdain for the attacker and his slanders.<br /><br />I could be wrong. It's happened before. But this seems right.<br />Francis W. Porrettohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-63695033331367087762018-07-18T10:29:17.802-04:002018-07-18T10:29:17.802-04:00I am unsure on whether or not getting into the mud...I am unsure on whether or not getting into the mud with the pig is a good idea or not. But what I can say is that the only two options on the table are to fight back in kind, or to do as you say and ignore their screeching.<br /><br />Either tactic may work. Or it may be that one is appropriate for some things, and the other appropriate in different situations.<br /><br />Most Conservatives I see, however, do neither of these things. They answer Leftist insults and Ad Homs with carefully reasoned, polite debate. Hell, even I did this up until pretty recently. Slinging mud or ignoring - I don't know which to endorse at this juncture, but I can definitely say that reason doesn't work with them. They will continue to sling mud-filled rhetoric no matter how much dialectic you use. And they will be seen as WINNING if we do that.<br /><br />That, at least, has definitely failed.Manuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13082153758868357687noreply@blogger.com