"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

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p.s. Also, please note the guideline about not calling names (e.g. "rabid").

Is that the same rabid, uncritical 47% who spent the last couple of years screaming about Russian collusion? I wonder what slate.com has to say about that.

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This is a goal post move. I remember when this 47% was claiming Seth Rich was the DNC leaker.

I think the media did a pretty good job describing the facts of the SCO investigation.