<p>I used to get really involved in political threads, but I've come to realize that nobody bothers to take heed of what anyone else is saying and they end up becoming bashing contests...sooooo annoying after a while....</p>
<p>not necessarily, I got myself pretty deeply involved in a politics thread, and I seem to notice that if one person refrains from bashing no matter how much the other person bashes, then the bashed will start debating and not pulling random attacks out the wazoo.</p>
<p>plus, this is the CC cafe, the place where subjects of random assortments come. Why ban politics? Maybe some people enjoy debating (or bashing in some cases).</p>
<p>You have to realize that it gets kinda useless after a while, because the people who are debating to begin with have strong political beliefs, and nothing you say will change their opinion.</p>
<p>i've contributed to most every political thread, and i've come to the realization that it turns from a debate to a "my side's better than yours" contest</p>
<p>I enjoy reading political threads because I really don't know much about politics/current events (but I'm trying harder and harder to make myself aware and to form my own opinions). I find the political threads in the Cafe very interesting. I understand though, how if you're an avid follower of politics and have strong views (and you cannot be persuaded no matter what), such threads might be annoying. However, I say, keep 'em up!</p>
<p>I like reading political threads because they pretty much descirbe the true behavior of humans. Even you think they're nice, when it comes to their beliefs, they take off their masks and show their "real" faces:)</p>
<p>Eh, most guys here are Bush-haters, so there isnt much of a debate going on at CC, rather there are personal attacks.</p>
<p>The conservatives at CC resort to personal attacks and usually present illogical and incoherrent arguments.</p>
<p>Politics, for the most part, amounts to "bashing" and slander, remember the 04 election??? No real issues just swift boat vets for truth and Bush's sketchy vietnam record...</p>
<p>The Swift Boats veterans make me sick.</p>
<p>I am exasperated by those who seek to critique my manner of writing as if they themselves know how to wri...</p>
<p>...oh wait, wrong thread.</p>
<p>Yeah, no offense but you're going to get torched in college if you continue to write like that. You seem to use big words just for the sake of using big words when it really doesn't add much to the composition. I used to be like that until 2 years ago when I took my first college course; needless to say, I learned very quickly that simple words are better.</p>
<p>At least I understand him more that I understand Bush.</p>
<p>This thread will probably get deleted like every other poltical thread...</p>
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Yeah, no offense but you're going to get torched in college if you continue to write like that. You seem to use big words just for the sake of using big words when it really doesn't add much to the composition. I used to be like that until 2 years ago when I took my first college course; needless to say, I learned very quickly that simple words are better.
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<p>Too bad I am already a sophomore in college and am performing quite well; and no, I do not consciously attempt to sound 'intelligent' or anything of the sort. The writings posted on my website are of the same character - they are pending publication. Lucidity is not necessarily virtue, but I will admit that terseness is. </p>
<p>By the way, there is not a single 'big word' in the above statment; there are those who can successfully use such words, and there are others who use them poorly. I still consider myself in the latter, but only writers of the highest caliber fall in the former. Relative to my peer level, however, I tend to fall in the former as well.</p>
<p>and already primitivefuture is demonstrating this ongoing samsara associated with politics threads....this thread doesn't even deal with an issue, yet you still find, within some abysmal corner of your mind, a reason to articulate personal attacks towards those you disagree with.</p>
<p>Furthermore, I have yet to present an "illogical and incoherent" argument. I make my point clear, and those who cannot (or are unwilling to) understand it can go sulk by their keyboards and get on with their lives. I hold my opinions for particular reasons, and, in my opinion, I have done fairly well in articulating those reasons in simple terminology that everyone can understand. Now, if you would like to start a thread basing every political leader and every user in this forum with whom you disagree, be my guest. I was merely making a statement as to why I believe politics threads on College Confidential tend to be fruitless: people like you have no way of getting out of deep corners without resorting to "negative campaigning," which usually ends in a change of subject and an eventual stalemate.</p>
<p>"Furthermore, I have yet to present an "illogical and incoherent" argument. I make my point clear, and those who cannot (or are unwilling to) understand it can go sulk by their keyboards and get on with their lives."</p>
<p>i wasnt talking about you. I was talking about conservatives like TakingbackSaturdayx, stardragon, uc_benz, and many others on this board. You basically make a simple issue of discussion more complicated.</p>
<p>Although I haven't been involved with political discussions here, I've had many a 10+ page debate on other forums, and I can tell you that nothing is better for clarifying your own thoughts, and improving them. Talking things through and thinking about them enough to put them on paper/type is great, superior to verbal debate, imho, which is subject to more obscuring dimensions, and responding to and hearing opposing opinions is very enlightening. I don't post in those types of threads anymore, and if you don't like them, don't post in them or read them.</p>