# You, sir.  Yes, you!  Are a partisan asshole.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 6, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-sir-yes-you-are-a-partisan-asshole/591780 "2011-08-06T23:10:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-sir-yes-you-are-a-partisan-asshole/591780/72 "2011-08-07T20:42:35Z")

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> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#):
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> But why, then, would you bother to do so?

I assume this was directed at me, based on the last sentence in my post?

I bother to do so for my own amusement. I don’t do it in GD; i generally reserve it for the Pit, where it’s perfectly acceptable. In fact, the only reason i made any mention of **Starving Artist** at all in this thread is precisely because it’s in the Pit.

I applaud your effort to make things better in GD, but that wasn’t really my aim in entering this thread. I don’t engage with assholes like **Starving Artist** in GD precisely because there is no point. As **Bricker** observed a couple of years back:

> [@Tings Were Better In the Fifties, Vol. I: Teen Pregnancy (the SA debate series)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tings-were-better-in-the-fifties-vol-i-teen-pregnancy-the-sa-debate-series/515996/93):
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> **Starving Artist** has already made clear that he has no interest in debating. His _modus operandi_ is simply to assert things he finds to be self-evident.

I don’t spend a huge amount of time in GD, precisely for some of the reasons you’ve raised in this thread. There are times when i would like to join a discussion, but a quick read of the thread reveals that it has already turned into a predictable partisan hack-fest. I know that, if i enter such a thread, i might have trouble curbing my tendency to call a moron a moron, so i often just decline to participate. And when i do participate, i do my best to argue honestly and cogently. I’ll leave it up to others to determine how well i accomplish this.

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