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a personal attack would be eg calling him a DC.
all I did was point out the intellectual dishonesty of his argument. that's an attack on his intellectually dishonest argument, not his person.
by all means go ahead and ban me
Ditto for "I am very disappointed about your BULLSHIT" in the GP comment.
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