# Let me be real clear: this message board does NOT need conservatives

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 28, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474 "2021-07-28T02:12:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474/383 "2021-07-30T09:00:37Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> It takes two to tango. You are sneering all throughout this thread, as you do in most Pit threads. If you think sneering is incompatible with argument, then you need to stop doing it yourself.

If you think sneering is so bad, why is an entire thread just to mock someone ok? **iiandyiiii** said that the **Sam\_Stone** thread was just about mocking. You posted 5 times in that thread. Why is mocking someone for 900 posts fine but sneering at people who are insulting you not ok? I’m sure you’ll make up a rationalization, but this is a double standard.

> [@How should the Pit be changed, if at all?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-the-pit-be-changed-if-at-all/946859/330):
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> That thread was just about mocking what I saw as extreme gullibility, akin to believing a convicted con artist who says they have a great deal on a bridge to sell you. It didn’t go any deeper than that. The Pit is the appropriate place for that kind of mockery and ribbing, ISTM.

> [@Sam Stone believes Trump's tweets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-stone-believes-trumps-tweets/922633):
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> The ridiculous “declassify” [thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-declassifies-all-documents-related-to-russia-collusion-and-hillary-emails/922448) was closed, so @Sam_Stone wasn’t able to come back and apologize for his tragic yet hilarious gullibility in accepting Trump’s tweets at face value. Care to do so here, Sam? Why on Earth did you think this was anything more than the random poo flinging Trump takes part in every day?

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