# How many more attacks before the West has to consider the previously unthinkable?

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**Created:** [July 15, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-more-attacks-before-the-west-has-to-consider-the-previously-unthinkable/759950 "2016-07-15T02:38:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-more-attacks-before-the-west-has-to-consider-the-previously-unthinkable/759950/394 "2016-07-25T23:50:25Z")

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So…you were specifically told to “keep it under control,” here:

> [@Feel the #extortion Bernie has planned](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feel-the-extortion-bernie-has-planned/750443/550):
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> That’s enough of that. This whole thread is a fine line waiting to be tripped over.
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> No more personal attacks at all. SlackerInc, keep it under control.

Specifically addressed, no less. Then you posted this:

> [@Feel the #extortion Bernie has planned](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feel-the-extortion-bernie-has-planned/750443/566):
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> I’m not going to waste time and effort begging you to. Go and play in the irrelevant Green Party sandbox, if it makes you feel pure and righteous. I’m all out of fucks to give on that question.

Your idea of “civil,” no doubt.

Then the very next post, which you claim is no different in content (how about tone? Do you see any difference there?) than your own, here:

> [@Feel the #extortion Bernie has planned](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feel-the-extortion-bernie-has-planned/750443/567):
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> Very seriously do or don’t.
> 
> If you see no meaningful difference between the position the country and the world is in with a President Trump or Cruz vs a President Clinton then you should not bother voting for the office, or should vote for someone else out of some perceived principle that you possess.
> 
> I strongly suspect we will win without you. And we cannot win as a tent that only allows those who pass your ideological purity test to enter. If Obama’s progress and progressiveness and Supreme nominations and overall performance have been such weak sauce to you that you might as well have had Romney or McCain, then, yes, you might be better off in another party more to your liking. Bye.

And you, but not DSeid, get warned here:

> [@Feel the #extortion Bernie has planned](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feel-the-extortion-bernie-has-planned/750443/572):
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> You were told to back away from the insults.  
> This is a Warning that you are over the line for ignoring Mod instructions and insulting other posters.
> 
> [/Moderating]

You honestly can’t see a difference between your post (“I’m not going to waste time and effort begging you…I’m all out of fucks to give…” and DSeid’s (“Very seriously do or don’t…if you see no meaningful difference…you should not bother voting…Bye.”) ?

Those strike you as the same?

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