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Originally Posted by candybar
Well this is the legacy of tolerating the likes of Tooth for years - pretty much his entire schtick over the past few months has been anti-vax political rants, on top of years of posting borderline extremist hate speech. Interestingly, this anti-vax contingent emboldened by relatively soft moderation has been most vocal about how other posters (well really anyone with remotely liberal or mainstream political opinions) need to be banned and are the ones ruining rational discussion or whatever.
This is a pretty dogshlt summary
The only time moderators acted swiftly was removing shuffle for wild conspiracy theories. On the flip side the same moderator engaged cuepee shortly after as if he should be taken seriously. There are two loons from politics which had a consensus as zero value mental cases that needed to be moderated strictly. (either limit volume or ask them to leave). While swift action was taken on shuffle, nothing was done about these posters. The solution was to shut down the thread they polluted vs dealing with them (like shuffle). Now one of the mental cases has turned the tesla thread in to a hot pile of garbage. Again, nothing being done
Calling tooth or the anti-vax contingent some sort of prominent narrative is just weird. He and almost everyone posting regularly had declared their status as vaccinated. I would agree if you said there was a vocal opposition to mandatory vaccination, child vaccination, or pushback on the notion they developed a miracle jab. That's just the kind of discussion sensible adults engage in, wherever they land in the debate.
The obsession with tooth is just weird. He hasn't posted in months. There's plenty of reasons to criticize his style of posting. That said if you post on a bfi forum to make friends or have everyone agree with you, have fun. Having your positions challenged is not only valuable to you but everyone reading a back and forth argument with researched or explanatory positions is a massive shortcut to gaining knowledge and formulating your own perspective. However you feel about tooth or the rules regarding inflammatory posting style, this should not be conflated with mentally unwell rants from posters like shuffle or cuepee spamming page after page.