Politics proposal

[tuq]

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I'll confer with tuk tuk and get back to you.

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I say let's do it. Nielsio posting in Politics is good for ATF.

[Klompy]

Midge is actually the only poster I currently have blocked. I know little of neilso, but I am in support of banning Midge. As boro pointed out earlier, he's the definition of a troll and he doesn't even bother to be funny about it or anything.

[XXXNoahXXX]

I propose a give and take.

I am willing to support the banning of Midge if politics posters will stop referring to Ron Paul as Dr. Paul.


I have made it known that my brain explodes each and every time I read it.

[Case Closed]

I don't see why unbanning the both of them isn't an option. Was there ever any final post that put Neilso over the top? Because I never had any problem with his posts at all.

[THEOSU]

[Case Closed]

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I propose a give and take.

I am willing to support the banning of Midge if politics posters will stop referring to Ron Paul as Dr. Paul.


I have made it known that my brain explodes each and every time I read it.

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What aggravates you about it? You know he is a doctor, right?

[Taso]

Midge has been getting on my nerves a lot lately, mostly because he keeps on posting about things that he has no knowledge of at all, and its painfully obvious...Nielso...I don't think I ever had a problem with Nielso, although his posts were just as silly...

I support this movement.

[GoodCallYouWin]

I as well support this movement, although I think Midge isn't as bad as some have made him out to be. Bring back Nielsio he made my sweet avatar!

[XXXNoahXXX]

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I propose a give and take.

I am willing to support the banning of Midge if politics posters will stop referring to Ron Paul as Dr. Paul.


I have made it known that my brain explodes each and every time I read it.

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What aggravates you about it? You know he is a doctor, right?

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I do. Here are my reasons.

1. Bill Frist is a heart surgeon. Nobody refers to him as Dr. Frist (unless using him as a tool in the Schiavo debate). There are tons of people with phDs and other medical doctors that are politicians. We don't refer to any of them as Dr.

2. "Dr." is a title like "Mr." or "Mrs." We never refer to any of the other candidates as Mr. Romney or Mrs. Clinton. I get that Dr. adds a piece of info to the puzzle that those titles do not (except gender). If anything, he traded in his Dr. title for "Congressman."

3. It is just a subtle way for Ron Paul supporters to elevate him above the other candidates, and it just creates this false imposition of reverence that I find annoying. It's bad enough having to wade through the threads about how he has a real shot and how if he got elected he'd be assassinated because he would revolutionize the world, etc.

I wouldn't consider myself a Ron Paul supporter, but I would say that there is a strong likelihood that I would vote for him over many of the other candidates in the race. I really like a lot of his ideas. That said, I still find people referring to him as "Dr. Paul" to be retarded.

[pvn]

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And I would fix broken quote tags.


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