And now Zorkman, in a sign of wanting to engage in meaningful conversation, has changed his avatar to Steve Bannon.

bahbah mickey , I don't think this applies to just this site but to our country. A lot of people had no impact on policy and had goals or thoughts that had 0 chance of being implemented thus Trump was born. This pretty much sums up what i hear most trumpers in kansas and missouri say.

Gee, I wonder how those stoopid libtards become the majority voice in the forum. Must have been through insincere polemics and by whining in ATF. Not by, you know, actually engaging the libertarians in honest discussion and having the better arguments or whatever. That would never work.

When I first started reading twoplustwo the politics forum had a lot of bizzarre anarcho capitalists idealists leading the discussions. In 2004 and 2005 pvn vs dvaut was the heavyweight political fight in the forum. pvn basically stopped giving a **** and also changed positions(?) and dvaut is still dvaut.

There were many causes but one thing I think is as the poker boom went on and the site was growing until 2009ish more casual on politics but smart people showed up.

I know the poker world was much more prosperous and you could be guaranteed money just by showing up with a copy of the super system but have some respect for poker boomers even if you hate their views of the political world.

Given the subjectivity of the rules, in particular, the trolling, and derailing, it makes sense giving the OP some limited scope in enforcing these rules by collaborating with the mods and describing what is/isn't derailing and trolling for the OP (who has the most interest in keeping the topic alive and well). This can be accomplished utilizing a sticky, and simply stating that an OP can establish the ground rules in the original post.

To be blunt, I'm not going to start a thread on anarcho-capitalism when every other post is going to be the kerolol, shame-troll tag-team where it's stuff I've never even heard of "roof roads" and "sky roads", and how the endgame for ACism is rape-town, and other nonsense. And, I can either blunt the usual nonsense attacks with pages in the OP, debunking these arguments before hand, but it still will not stop the repetitive nature of these arguments, which creates a mockitocracy over a meritocracy, a race to the bottom. Either that or I can just use the same tactics, and get-in on this race to the bottom business.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I did receive a 24-hour ban, and on top of that, there's no trace of the actual comment, and no infraction report. I searched every comment I made in November. There's no trace of a comment that says statism is a religion. Either I am entirely mistaken, or some rogue mod put on his super jimmies around election day gave me a 24-hour ban, and covered his/her tracks. Regardless, I sincerely apologize for automatically blaming Wookie for this incident that did happen. I cannot seem to prove that I was even banned at all.

Uh huh. It's more like we followed the Ron Paul movement, which later lost steam. There was a huge uptick in libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism around the same time period across the US. But, if you think I'm going to post with a bunch of toxic personalities who want to take me down to their level, you're sadly mistaken. I'd sooner watch Disney's "Cool Runnings", which you know, has some libertarian themes and a neat tune titled "Rise Above It".

Oh, and I'm sure I dreamt the whole thing fellas.

/sarcasm

You will always keep some conservatives around to legitimise your biased forum. They are just pawns in your game.

Didn't forget mine even when you were on your honeymoon, funny that...

Occam's razor suggests you're a paranoid delusional

First, no one cares about ACist crap so we're starting fairly low. Second, all you have to is answer the questions about ACland. Which you never did, you just hem and haw about how unfair the question is.

No. No you can't. That's the problem.

Another thing... you keep on claiming I'm making 'arguments' regarding ACism. Nothing could be farther than the truth. I'm not making 'arguments' that ACland would be 'good' or 'bad' or whatev. I'm simply trying to explain what ACism actually is.

It's like I'm trying to explain baseball. I start out saying that there's nine fielders, and normally nine innings, etc. You are freaking out that I'm "trolling" (LMFAO no, you're the one trolling), that I'm "strawmanning" (who could I possibly be strawmanning?), and that I'm 'arguing' something regarding the 'goodness' of baseball (wrong, I'm just explaining the game, not saying it's 'good' or 'bad').

The problem you have is I know like 10000% more about ACism than you ever will. Let me repeat that: I know like 10000% more about ACism than you ever will. AINEC. You are attempting to 'argue' from a place of extreme ignorance. I'm simply trying to explain things from a place of general knowledge. This is what leads to your frustration... not this alleged 'trolling' you like to dissemble about.

Anarchists demanding stricter rules to encore order ITT.

Cool runnings, mon!

There used to be user modded threads, JJ introduced them. I like the concept, with a few tweaks, a lot but the lack of software support for it is a problem and they didn't get much use for that or other reasons. No promises but it's not imposible that they could return in some form.

LOL

Speaking of toxic.... Which person made up a story about being banned because they have a persecution complex?

This sort of sanctimony precludes any coherent or productive conversation.

With respect to the accusations and counteraccusations of racism, I heartily suggest that everyone involved go and read a recent slatestarcodex post about racism and the ways in which we think about it. It is food for thought.

With that person maybe, but the fun thing is that lots of people post here, so if you think one is a disingenuous troll, you can simply ignore them.

Grunching...

So Dr. Zorka is more extreme and ridiculous than PyramidScheme. That's incredible.

Ok wait.

This dude literally just did the 'confirm/deny' meme with sincerity and earnestness in a serious discussion.

I don't even.

NegroPrez ruined country, confirm/deny.