# The politics thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-politics-thread/1004178
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [July 13, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-politics-thread/1004178 "2024-07-13T23:45:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-politics-thread/1004178/1 "2024-07-13T23:45:37Z")
I did not attack another poster.
A link Was provided.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-politics-thread/1004178/2 "2024-07-13T23:52:57Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#):
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> A link Was provided.
Can you link to it?
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-politics-thread/1004178/3 "2024-07-13T23:53:24Z")
No. Staying out of that.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-politics-thread/1004178/4 "2024-07-13T23:53:43Z")
**I** provided the link (probably in part explaining why I wasn’t the recipient of a warning).
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-politics-thread/1004178/5 "2024-07-13T23:54:04Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#):
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> No.
Exactly. You did not post a link in that thread. I asked you for one once or twice and eventually someone else did it for you.
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-politics-thread/1004178/6 "2024-07-13T23:54:29Z")
It wouldn’t let me copy it.
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### Author:  [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-politics-thread/1004178/7 "2024-07-13T23:54:56Z")
A link was provided, but not by you.
You have a track record of making unsupported assertions in P&E. In general, we expect posters to be able to support what they assert with some kind of link to show where the information came from, so other posters can determine for themselves if the information is credible or just Shit You Want to Say or Think.
You’ve been mod-noted about this several times and you have received guidance in PMs as well. You need to either be able to support the things you say or stay out of P&E threads.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-politics-thread/1004178/8 "2024-07-13T23:55:12Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#):
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> It wouldn’t let me copy it.
I mean link to the post where you claimed to have provided the link. Link to the post, take a screenshot, tell me the post number…something to back up what you’re claiming. But, as usual, you refuse to do that for…reasons.
In any case, you didn’t provide a link in that thread. I’m not sure why you’d claim otherwise.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-politics-thread/1004178/9 "2024-07-13T23:55:31Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#):
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> It wouldn’t let me copy it.
My experience was materially different.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-politics-thread/1004178/10 "2024-07-13T23:58:56Z")
This is a classic example of why we’re running out of patience with you.
Your title is nearly empty of value. You couldn’t even include a link to the thread or type something like _The Trump shooting thread_?
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-politics-thread/1004178/11 "2024-07-14T00:17:34Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#):
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> I did not attack another poster.
FYI, it looks like this was the comment where you crossed that line:
> [@Trump bloody after shots fired at a Trump Rally](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally/1004162/149):
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> Had trump said that and someone shot at Biden you would think otherwise.
I think that _is_ attacking the poster.
It’s also just kind of a bad faith technique/Straw Man Argument, trying to ‘bolster your argument’ by putting words into another’s mouth – arguing against something that the other person simply didn’t say, or a position they simply don’t hold.