# does this explain the whole conservative/ liberal ideological divide?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 12, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-explain-the-whole-conservative-liberal-ideological-divide/489236 "2009-03-12T18:29:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-explain-the-whole-conservative-liberal-ideological-divide/489236/161 "2009-03-17T20:59:50Z")

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You know, let’s have **IMM** settle this:

**IdahoMauleMan** were you making the following claims:

1. The EBay market is less regulated than other buy-sell transactions in this country.

2. There are no laws governing what Ebay sellers can say on Ebay.

If you were not making those claims, what claims were you trying to make?

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**Author:** ![NoJustice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecb155/32.png) [@NoJustice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoJustice)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-explain-the-whole-conservative-liberal-ideological-divide/489236/162 "2009-03-18T02:52:30Z")

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_Pats **BnS** on the back_  
There now, that wasn’t so hard, was it?

I didn’t want to speak for **IMM** in the first place. It’s just that the only reason I hadn’t called **Evil Economist** on his BS is because IMM and **erislover** seemed to have agreed to just continue on and not get side-tracked by his sorry attempt to hide his self-contradictions behind an impenetrable wall of denial. I wouldn’t have posted my question in the first place except that I really did expect that there would be a straight-forward answer. I didn’t want to interfere again since I was curious where their discussion would lead. But just then, when they seemed to be making progress, you just happened to reappear and start pulling the exact same crap.

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**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-explain-the-whole-conservative-liberal-ideological-divide/489236/163 "2009-03-18T02:54:47Z")

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> [@NoJustice](#):
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> _Pats **BnS** on the back_  
> There now, that wasn’t so hard, was it?
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> I didn’t want to speak for **IMM** in the first place. It’s just that the only reason I hadn’t called **Evil Economist** on his BS is because IMM and **erislover** seemed to have agreed to just continue on and not get side-tracked by his sorry attempt to hide his self-contradictions behind an impenetrable wall of denial. I wouldn’t have posted my question in the first place except that I really did expect that there would be a straight-forward answer. I didn’t want to interfere again since I was curious where their discussion would lead. But just then, when they seemed to be making progress, you just happened to reappear and start pulling the exact same crap.

Whatever. Your pompous nonsense and reading comprehension issues aren’t me pulling “crap.”

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**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-explain-the-whole-conservative-liberal-ideological-divide/489236/164 "2009-03-18T10:40:44Z")

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> [@NoJustice](#):
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> **IMM** was responding to **erislover** ’s implication that providing of information must be mandated by the government in order to happen.

Pics or it didn’t happen.

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**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-explain-the-whole-conservative-liberal-ideological-divide/489236/165 "2009-03-18T10:45:28Z")

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> [@erislover](#):
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> Pics or it didn’t happen.

You know, it is curious that at the same time **IdahoMauleMan** disappears from this thread, **NoJustice** shows up to defend him using the same dishonest tactics.

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