I agree. You can't even have a reasonable debate so I've just stopped trying. I either agree with a point or disagree, but I waste no time explaining myself. What happens is that there are 10 people disagreeing with my initial explanations, either calling me a fuckin' moron, or stupid, and thus asking me 10 different questions in ten different ways to get me to defend myself. Should I choose to explain myself further it would lead to 20 different questions from 20 different opposing people since the thread just grows.
Most of the time people just post the "mb" smiley after I've put effort into doing what they wanted.
In the end, my hard work would end up benefiting no one. I've been around too long to waste precious time. In-fact the only reason I'm making this post is to show support for you Remains and let you know how I'm dealing with the "real" world of debate and politics. What goes on in here isn't debating or even discussions. It's bullying. Bullies don't listen to reason and they think they know it all. That's fine, but it's why people will only get simplistic answers from people like me.
Anyway, to those few brave souls who continue to explain their opposing position in DIAF against the majority, you too shouldn't waste your time. You should just get things done "off-line" such as supporting causes and the politics you believe. There is no reason to directly confront anyone unless they have real tangible power to change things in the present or immediate future.
Here is an example of something I just did. I invested my effort into a "real" debate to get something I needed during the last year. That is why I wasn't around much.
I just grabroad
a bill together and signed into law last week in Massachusetts. It went against the Infectious Disease Society Of America, a highly conservative group with major conflicts of interest. They are financially tied to insurance companies, Universities producing research, patents, vaccines, and test kits. The society opposes the treatment that will help me recover from my current health problem. The majority of medical physicians who support the IDSA also happen to be conservatives.
So rather than appeal to debate and working with conservatives, I just contacted the reps directly who could help me and my advocacy groups. I appealed to their personal lives. Each of them knew someone sick just like me with the same condition who needed further treatment. So, they pushed very hard to help me when I presented a "real" argument.
The law now permits doctors to treat me aggressively using their best clinical judgment without fear of being brought before state medical boards. Insurance companies often report these doctors to the medical boards if they see them prescribing expensive treatment which goes beyond a set of guidelines produced by the Infectious Disease Society. The guidelines themselves say at the very brabroad
tom in tiny print that they are nrabroad
meant to replace the clinical judgment of a physician. However, no one in the community listens to it.
When a doctors script goes to the pharmacy and initiates billing, the insurance company knows exactly the amount and duration the doctor is treating for. Get it? The IDSA produces the guidelines which say that only 2-4 weeks of cheap antibirabroad
ic therapy cures the condition, when in reality, it takes 2-4 years of heavy antibirabroad
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ation and expensive IV therapies. Thus, the IDSA and conservative insurance companies have fought me personally from getting well and being able to afford the treatment I need. I haven't used the correct IV therapy for more than 4 weeks. I need it for more than a year. I am now able to do that through my primary care doctor.
My bill is listed here. on the ma.gov website. I was signed into law by my govnor one July 1: Here is the actual Text:
So, that's is how I've handled it TheRemains. If that means I'm a pseudo-intellectual, or a commie faggrabroad
liberal, fine by me, but I'm doing what I have to do to survive in the real world.