| What I think we should do, and this of course is simply an informal understanding, is use arguments that can be backed with commonly accepted sources. Obviously this won't work for "theory," but it might just make heads or tails of the media thread, the jew thread, the many bush threads...
I mean, everyone's got their opinions, and so long as we don't force ourselves into the nitty gritty of it we're just going to spew rhetoric at each other until our fingers fall off. Just as some of us (me included) have a problem with spouting rhetoric that we take for granted as common knowledge ("bush is stupid!" or, "arabs want the jews to die!"), some have the habit of asking for the impossible ("no he's not, prove bush is stupid!" or, "prove the arabs were there first!") which would take far too much time and effort for any one person to tackle. Especially if they're expected to do it for every thread.
So I think we should start small and keep our claims backed. But I'm lazy, so this is unlikely to happen.
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