~> No - no - no... Please don't misunderstand.  Bob never said a word to me 
~> about this echo.

I didn't mean right now.  I meant back in January.  As for the comments
made to or about you, they are just comments.  You can respond or ignore
them.  No comments are official here except mine.

One of the reasons why there are so many redundant politics/current-events
echoes is that there are people in the world who really dislike hearing
things they disagree with.  Dan Ceppa got booted from Politics, so he
started his own competing echo and began banning everyone he didn't like. 
Klahn was handed Debate, and quickly began banning people that Peter had no
serious problems with when he was alive.  Now he has another, so he can get
the thrill of banning people a SECOND time.  Politics hasn't banned anyone
in years, and even those required pretty direct instances of
legally-actionable defamation.  But it maintains monotone views more
informally.  People who express opinions get labeled and attacked or
ignored, and they tend to leave on their own.  Or they stay and toss back
insults for insults.

Actually, that is a lot like political discussion in general these days in
print, TV, radio, internet -- people see only two sides, and they usually
are certain that one is right about everything and the other is wrong about
everything.
 
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