Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
If you don't like me.. eh, that's your problem (not directed at you dragonrider. I know that you and I would probably actually be friends in real life.. politics aside that is. :hippy
You're a good guy Daihashi, even if we disagree on almost everything political! What would be the fun if everyone agreed on everything anyway? I like having the other opinions around, even if the other opinions actually piss me off a bit!

I'm sorry to hear that someone gave you negative rep over your point of view --- that's not really cool. I don't think I've ever given anyone negative rep except once a long time ago in a thread where some of the members got extremely nasty, insulting, hateful and personal. The whole thread got taken down, and that person got banned. Since then I've never bothered with negative rep. The mods do a good job of cleaning that kind of stuff up, so I don't worry about it. I'll respond in the thread if I feel I have to. Or if the post is a gross violation of rules, such as racism or outright name calling or personal insults, I'll report it and let a mod decide what to do if anything --- but I can't even remember the last time I did that.

This is a politics forum, so it is a place for widely varying opinions and sometimes strong disagreement. But the opinions can be argued on their merits (with a little trash talk on the side, because there is an election to win after all!)