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My two cents. ..
It is not possible to have a politics discussion without having a lot of debate. That is the point of a politics forum, and some people LIKE debating. It draws people to this forum, especially since we can debate in here without a bunch of jackasses pulling juvenile bullshit like they do on other political forums.
I've gotten into a few scraps in here about the 2nd amendment. They've gone into several pages worth of threads, all full of debate. Do that elsewhere and you'll get nothing but 500 people posting "gun banner" and 500 more people posting "insane militant," and no actual debate takes place.
Put another way, i don't think having debates in here really damages TFP. It's not like people are running around in other forums on TFP calling each other names because of what's posted in here. And for the most part even in here, the debate is kept civil. I challenge you to find another political discussion forum that does not have some variant of the phrase "you fucking moron" typed in hundreds of posts.
Other forums such as Motors invite discussion. Politics invites debate. Those who don't like it don't come in here. I don't see where debate is hurting anything.
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