I will say that Sam does an excellent job of deflecting attention from his errors by donning his martyr suit. Pitting him only helps that.
If this were true, this Pit thread wouldn’t exist.
Poor, poor Sam. If we weren’t so mean to him, undoubtedly he’d address his factual errors and apologize for them. But we’re just too mean, too insistent on pointing out his errors and asking him to apologize.
Poor Sam? Nah, I’m doing fine. I’m not the one flinging spittle in the Pit because I can’t stand what someone else is saying. That’s you. I hope you find a more fulfilling and rewarding way to spend your time.
Yes it would, because the point of these threads is to attempt to drive conservatives off this board, or otherwise make their lives miserable. There is no way to avoid that so long as the world is filled with triggered partisan assholes who cannot abide opinions they don’t agree with.
Hey, remember when I got pitted like 200 times and was told to apologize for saying that the Hunter Biden Laptop might be real? That was fun.
“I’m not the one insulting people in the Pit, you loser!”
Wrong, but fine.
Retaliation is not the same as instigation. I have never pitted anyone on this board that I can recall. I am unfailingly civil to people who are civil with me, even if they have gone postal on me in the Pit.
But you want to start shit with me, be prepared for blowback. I’m not your doormat.
I maintain that the Pit is a stain on this otherwise fine board, and the people who enjoy living in it are some of the worst people on this board.
This is a fair cop. I read Carson probably when I was under 20, and was talking from memory. I will accept that I may have been wrong in that categorization until I get a chance to read “Silent Spring” again, in which case I may have further opinions. But for now, I’ll accept that maybe I got that wrong.
If you consider habitual and serial dishonesty to be “civil,” sure.
I’m prepared, Sam. Show us what you got.
Flinging spittle? Got a cite? My recollection is that my criticisms of you, in the Pit or elsewhere, were very specific and based on your posts and nothing more incendiary than “that was pretty dumb”.
It seems to me like you might be latching onto the right-wing trend of a persecution fetish.
Well then, maybe I will think that you are getting better. 
Years ago you helped change my opinion on climate change. Not only did I say I had been wrong, but I credited you with your part in changing my thinking.
How many users on this board do that?
I had one, but a Sea Lion ate it.
Speaking of sea lions…
Well, on climate change, don’t think one can forget that you still call cites from the ones dealing with the issue as being “glurge”. When you say that few can change their opinion, the reality is that it looks here as if you are “buying time” like Chapelle advised Ye.
I see. So even if I admit I was wrong on something I’ll just get accused of ‘buying time’. So what’s the point?
The point of struggle sessions is not to get at the truth. It’s to put people who you think are ‘wrong’ through a wringer to punish them, make yourselves feel better about your own beliefs, and to be a lesson to others who might not agree with you. Then you use the admission of wrongness, if you get one, to go, “See! That person now ADMITS he was wrong! He’s guilty!” And if the person ever offers an opinion in the future that you don’t like, he’s now an ADMITTED LiAR whose opinion on anything can be ignored.
Hey, it worked for the Soviets and the Cultural Revolution in China. People on the left love their struggle sessions and forced confessions. It’s like when conservative university professors who step out of line get told they must write an apology or be fired. They write the apology, and the apology is used as an admission of malfeasance and they get fired anyway. You can’t win. You can just ignore the game for what it is, and mock the people who engage in it for the petty tyrants they are.
Well, that was YOMANKB hilarious. When have you not been “correct”?
With you I admit it’s hard to find such a time, since your political ideas are just so excrutiatingly bad.
The ironic thing is, showing humility and admitting when you’re wrong actually improves one’s credibility in the long run, but there’s a certain kind of person who sees this as weakness and will do anything other than admit fault.