How have your political views changed due to the politics forum?

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If anything, prolonged exposure to rabid ACers makes me even more disinclined to look favorably upon their views.

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I see you posted in the modding thread, which means I assume you read it. Isn't this the kind of name-calling reply that everyone agrees is ruining the forum?

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I look down on AC with the same sort of disdain that I have for communism. Most of the time, I am fine with just ignoring ACers, because I consider them to support a philosophy only slightly more legitimate than Scientology. When forced to co-exist with ACers, suppressed memories of why I loathe AC come back and it becomes too annoying to ignore. So, I usually read this forum a few days, get sick of it, and take a break for a few days or a week or even a month.

I'm actually being mild here. I have gotten a suspension before for a comment (not related to AC). I am quite capable of wording my feelings much more strongly, but you're just a faceless screen name, so why bother?

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Yeah, I might've been a bit itchy on the accusation trigger there. It's just cause the whole trolling issue was fresh in my mind and I was really disturbed by this comment from Case Closed:

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Turns out when every topic debated devolved into a debate of AC the ACers win. All the non ACers leave because they don't like being harassed.

I came here liberal and I am still liberal.

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I mean, obviously I knew that it went on but all the snarky comments and name calling (by either side in the debate) just give one side an opportunity to throw their hands up and ignore the quality of the argument.