Exhibit A of "Like-Minded Individuals to Reach Common Ground With", Folks:

[HughBeaumont]

http://discussionist.com/1015183142#post63

And in case the post gets hidden, it says, and I quote:

Still haven't meet a Laquisha or Shaniqua I would like to work with

I mean, COME on. Are you freaking KIDDING me? It's bad enough that site's loaded with economically stupid Dunning-Krugertarians and mean low-info bastards who name themselves after ammo . . . and now THIS nonsense?

Can we now say that this is a bad idea once and for all? Sometimes stupid is just stupid.

[el_bryanto]

1. I don't participate at Discussionist and I'm not likely to start

It seems like a good place to go if you want a fight. But some people do want a fight.

Bryant

[Cirque du So-What]

2. I've ceased participating on that site

I purposely avoid associating with bigots in real-life, so why should I actively seek them out for 'discussion' on the internet? Their minds are utterly closed anyway, and from what I've observed, they derive trollish satisfaction from displaying their overt racism.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. I quit going there after I saw them

cheering the deaths of Palestinian children. I made my last comment there that night, and I won't be back.

[HughBeaumont]

5. As of 12:37, this post is still up . . .

So not only are they embracing trolls, their sewery agenda is welcomed. Amazing.

Let's bring the worst of Yahoo.com and try to get them on a common plane with people that possess a brain stem. SMELL THE SUCCESS!!

[Nay]

4. I went over to Discussionist once and that was it for me. I have no need to

expose myself to such idiocy. If I wanted to do that, I'd just watch Fox, fer chrissakes.

[Jamaal510]

6. "low-info bastards who name themselves after ammo"

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

7. But that's apparently the purpose of the site:

Supposedly more conversation with someone like that is...important or something. I dunno.

[HughBeaumont]

8. I think the creators envisioned a reasonable debate between DUers and Eisenhower conservatives.

They got Randians, Austrian School crackpots, circular-argument-tossing libertarians and troglodytes who crawled out of a sewer instead.

Talk about your all-time classic backfires.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

9. Any look at the Yahoo message boards or...

...any relatively unmoderated board would tell them that "reasonable" debate really isn't possible between such diametrically opposed viewpoints. Especially when one side thinks it's just peachy keen to want the other side dead.

Randians and troglodytes are not interested in debate. They're interested in yelling at us.

[HughBeaumont]

11. Or, in the case of Austrian schoolers, talking to us like we're third graders.

How does the saying go . . . "It doesn't take so much a leap of faith, but a hard tumble down Mount Dumbass"?

[TheKentuckian]

10. A crazy proposition since Eisenhower Republicans are now the center-left of our party.

and modern day "conservatives" are at least at the Birch Society position on the political spectrum or even more regressive that that.

Hell, the center and right of the Democratic party are Reaganites without the southern strategy.