# Reverse skate - take on the opposite position than you really believe in and fight for it **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-skate-take-on-the-opposite-position-than-you-really-believe-in-and-fight-for-it/712371 "2015-02-11T04:31:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-skate-take-on-the-opposite-position-than-you-really-believe-in-and-fight-for-it/712371/1 "2015-02-11T04:31:46Z")
To those that aren’t Americans that grew up in the 80’s, a reverse skate is a reference to roller skating rinks that normally go counter-clockwise but skaters are forced to reverse the order at designated intervals. It inevitably leads to confusion and low speed collisions which is why it is so entertaining. This is the thread where liberals become conservatives and vice versa. No matter what ideals you have are reversed. However, it is not a satire thread in which you mock your opponents by using illogical arguments. You are in it to win if you choose to participate and you can’t treat it as a joke. This is an experimental thread to see if the people here are capable of seeing both sides of any given issue. I will go first. We need to pull all military assets and troops out of the Middle East immediately and not meddle in any of their affairs again. The U.S. simply cannot afford another set of foreign wars. The money involved would be much better spent domestically. Too many U.S. troops have been lost in the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq and there is nothing left to gain with the current ISIS crisis. The entire region has to be left on its own including Israel. All drone strikes have to cease immediately because they are indiscriminate weapons of terror that border on war crimes of their own. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-skate-take-on-the-opposite-position-than-you-really-believe-in-and-fight-for-it/712371)._