# Who's the best poster you disagree with? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 30, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936 "2010-08-30T00:09:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoneburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Stoneburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoneburg)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/1 "2010-08-30T00:09:41Z")
I’m looking mainly for the best right-wing posters, because right-wing posters are the ones who’s opinions I tend to disagree with the most. By best I mean most intelligent, knowledgeable, eloquent etc etc. You can put whatever adjective your prefer to it, but basically the one you’re most likely to stop to read thinking “I better read his post, he might have some really good arguments, heck, he might even be right!”. A guy whose opinion you respect, but don’t share. But so that I don’t leave out the right-wing posters, I’d like to know the same from your perspective. I’d find that interesting too, and maybe helpful as well. If you don’t want to admit you like this person in public, you can PM me (and I can post it for you if you like). ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/2 "2010-08-30T00:22:47Z")
**Dio the Cynic**. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/3 "2010-08-30T00:28:43Z")
\*whose opinions ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/4 "2010-08-30T00:30:22Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > \*whose opinions hi5 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/5 "2010-08-30T00:45:20Z")
**Bricker**. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/6 "2010-08-30T00:50:47Z")
He gets a lot of hate around here, and has a bad habit of citing shaky sources at times, but **Sam Stone** is smart, well-educated and forms good arguments. Often, I find that his argument is ignored while the thread dissolves into snarkiness and thinly-veiled attacks. I also like \*\*Bricker \*\*and **Shodan** - good arguments and usually bring something thought-provoking to the table. I guess that makes me one of the “right-wing” around here ::rolleyes:: ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/7 "2010-08-30T01:48:06Z")
I admit that **even sven** sometimes makes good points. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/8 "2010-08-30T01:59:17Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > He gets a lot of hate around here, and has a bad habit of citing shaky sources at times, but **Sam Stone** is smart, well-educated and forms good arguments. > > Often, I find that his argument is ignored while the thread dissolves into snarkiness and thinly-veiled attacks. > > I also like \*\*Bricker \*\*and **Shodan** - good arguments and usually bring something thought-provoking to the table. > > I guess that makes me one of the “right-wing” around here ::rolleyes:: I can’t remember the last time **Shodan** made an argument much less a good one. As far as I can tell he gave up years ago. Now he shows up in most political threads after about 8 -10 posts, and takes a big dump. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/9 "2010-08-30T02:06:25Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > > [@Sateryn76](#): > > > > He gets a lot of hate around here, and has a bad habit of citing shaky sources at times, but **Sam Stone** is smart, well-educated and forms good arguments. > > > > Often, I find that his argument is ignored while the thread dissolves into snarkiness and thinly-veiled attacks. > > > > I also like \*\*Bricker \*\*and **Shodan** - good arguments and usually bring something thought-provoking to the table. > > > > I guess that makes me one of the “right-wing” around here ::rolleyes:: > > I can’t remember the last time **Shodan** made an argument much less a good one. As far as I can tell he gave up years ago. Now he shows up in most political threads after about 8 -10 posts, and takes a big dump. Irony. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/10 "2010-08-30T02:31:46Z")
Bricker and Sam Stone. Though Sam Stone has seemed a lot more biased lately, and Bricker’s “juris uber alles” schtick can get really frustrating, they are both valuable members of the community. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/11 "2010-08-30T13:36:05Z")
> [@](#): > > But so that I don’t leave out the right-wing posters, I’d like to know the same from your perspective. I’d find that interesting too, and maybe helpful as well. **Richard Parker**. He’s almost always infuriatingly correct. He doesn’t dodge inconvenient arguments, but addresses them and demolishes them – or concedes their strengths and distinguishes them. I don’t agree with him politically at all. I have (only semi-jokingly) called him the most dangerous poster on these boards precisely because of his ability to shred my points. He must be stopped at all costs. **Diogenes** gets an honorable mention, with an asterisk in the record book. When he’s in “bring the facts” mode, he’s a wealth of information with a socially liberal lean to his views. If I could figure out a way to turn off his other mode of “I will stand by what I said until they pry it from my cold, dead, tongue,” he’d be the second-most dangerous poster. **Left Hand of Dorkness** and **Maxthe Vool** : strong arguments. **Jas09** - kind of a newly-active poster from my perspective, but an excellent debater. **DSeid** is not a liberal’s liberal, but deserves mention for even-handed debate and analysis. And six more I’ll think of after the five-minute edit window is elapsed. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/12 "2010-08-30T14:15:49Z")
Bricker on one hand, and Diogenes on the other. I rarely agree with either of them, but they both bring up points I hadn’t thought of. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/13 "2010-08-30T14:28:55Z")
**Bricker** and **Sam Stone** , though I would hesitate to describe either as “right wing”. They’re conservatives, not reactionaries. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/14 "2010-08-30T14:42:40Z")
Adding to the pile-on: **Bricker** and **Sam Stone**. Their posts are always well-reasoned, well-researched, concise and precise. They’re usually _wrong_, of course, but that doesn’t negate the presentation or argumentation. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/15 "2010-08-30T15:20:12Z")
Yeah, **Bricker** ’s arguments are usually brilliant, even when I disagree with him. I especially like when he brings out the legal arguments, because even when I don’t like the state of the law I concede he makes good points. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/16 "2010-08-30T23:24:17Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > [@emacknight](#): > > > > I can’t remember the last time **Shodan** made an argument much less a good one. As far as I can tell he gave up years ago. Now he shows up in most political threads after about 8 -10 posts, and takes a big dump. > > Irony. Exactly. I’d offer up **Magiver** and **xtisme** as alternatives. Regards emacknight ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/17 "2010-08-30T23:45:32Z")
**John Mace** is a conservative, but he’s one of the most fair-and-balance (ha!) ones out there. Actually, maybe I shouldn’t even mention him. We often tend to agree on things more than we disagree, though we might be agreeing for different reasons. **xtisme** can be kinda cool. And that’s about it, off the top of my mind. Most of the vocal conservatives that post in GD frequently are either 1) very judgemental and given to black-and-white thinking, 2) tend to argue the picuayne (like they’ll divert a debate into a discussion of semantics, till everyone is just too tired to return to the big picture, or 3) don’t even bother to bring facts or substance with them and end up becoming a broken record of jibberish. That’s not to say that there aren’t some liberal posters here (they tend to have “Ds” in their usernames ;)) that do that too. But because this board has more liberal posters, there’s a good selection to choose from. But I do appreciate the conservatives that have some modicum of intelligence, because otherwise GD would be extremely boring. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/18 "2010-08-30T23:48:33Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > **John Mace** is a conservative, but he’s one of the most fair-and-balance (ha!) ones out there. Actually, maybe I shouldn’t even mention him. We often tend to agree on things more than we disagree, though we might be agreeing for different reasons. **John** is pretty issues-based rather than partisan. I think he comes off as conservative because he tends to step on factless caterwauling pretty hard, and such caterwauling comes from lefties pretty often by sheer dint of numbers. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/19 "2010-09-01T12:26:12Z")
Another vote for Dio. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936/20 "2010-09-01T13:07:24Z")
**Captain Amazing**. Regards, Shodan [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-best-poster-you-disagree-with/551936.md?page=2)