Good grief... did I actually infract on excessive hyperbole? I always hated that category... so subjective.
I don't think it's used much nowadays.
Anyway, wasn't an excessive hyperbole introduced primarily to deal with the likes of Libertas?
Here is the "excessive hyperbole" debate with Libertas thread, complete with participation by Dave himself:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=122436.0
You know what the funny thing is, reading Dave's first post in that thread, it's clear he is not nearly as libertarian in his moderation as the cave interprets. If Dave were a very active moderator on this site, all those petitions on The Atlas board would probably actually be taken into account:
I totally disagree - rhetoric is one thing, excessive hyperbole is exaggeration to the extreme. I consider it inappropriate to exaggerate beyond reason another person's position - especially to the point of disrespecting the English language.
is about as bad as it gets... a statement as such is not only inaccurate, but shows utter ignorance for the meanings of the words "fascist" & "extremist", attenuates the true meaning of these words and deafens people to the vigilance they need to confront real threats of people that wish to institute extreme fascism (don't cry wolf).
Furthermore, lets make reasoned rhetoric and hold rational discussions - such statements as above only inflame and enrage, leading to passion instead of reason, making for poor judgement.
Thanks,
Dave
, I had to rebuild the quote from scratch since I can't actually click the quote button in that thread due to it being locked)I could easily envision Dave reading that quoted post with passionate fury in front of a crowd of hundreds.
