I thought bundy said he was going to start his own politics forum. I'm excited to get in on the ground floor of that when it happens.

Have you read any of my posts in ATF?

You did not quote any either.


I did see NhlNut start out with a broad brush attack against the left though. Not a good entry. Ill keep reading for your offensive posts.

Edit: Alright i read it. Seems he is just outnumber and people disagreed without insult or hate. At most someone politely questions his motives. Fake news...

He said he made a mistake and apologized. No insults or incivility as far a i can see.

Ok then im not sure why we are talking.

ok.
Ill go by your definition. What was fake?

Because speech and thought are entangled, requiring people to use more respectful words instead of slurs also requires them to think more respectfully.

Mason has decided to take the route of rehabilitation. I am more than willing to offer suggestions and discuss what rehabilitation steps need to be taken if anyone wants to hear my opinion.

Rehabilitation is clearly the more desirable outcome. But what should be done if rehabilitation of the subforum can't be managed? What then?

I think you are living it now.

Yeah sorry been a bit busy. Does ATF count in the meantime?

It will only reflect the current state of the politics forum - I mean former state, right?

I dont think it needs rehabilitation. Im ok with people being mean and *******s since it lets me know i should not waist to much effort on them.

But it looks like the rules are going to get clammed down in a more evenhanded way so good and bad buttholes reform or get booted. Not good enough for you?

You have two mods there. One thinks about half the electorate are deplorables, people who should be shamed and driven away. The other doesn't believe that smashing the windows of the offices of republican congress members is an act of violence. I don't think these two are capable of evenhandedness over an extended time period.

After being given feedback from 6 people...

So, let me go back and FYP:

Or to cut to the chase, does anyone that will say nice things about bundy want to weigh in? He wasn't really looking for negative feedback.

Dont think you or i get to be the judge of that. Guess will see.


He is old and harmless and mostly yelling at clouds. Whats the big deal. I like him kind of.

A clear political bias in favour of the prevailing one currently systemic in politics, sure.

Old? Because I tend to support conservative positions or because I'm rather argumentative?

Because i thought you said you were old. Fake news?

No you must be confusing me with someone else which is a scary proposition given there are not too many other conservative posters on here.

This is just conflating the issues again. Again to use raradevils as an example, he hasn't posted since Dec 8, I don't know if he's gone permanently. If he is, it's as a result of bullying and inadequate moderation, and I already said so in the "Status Of This Forum" thread.

But, rara was never remotely in danger of getting banned or exiled. Neither was seattlelou, who has disappeared, or domer2, who still posts in Politics (I think?) but not in the main threads. To turn it back around, if the problem is Wookie's poor moderation, say, who in Politics, aside from also-banned posters and maybe chezlaw, I guess (Edit: and batair, apparently) do you think would be keen to undo the exile? You're claiming to be banned as a result of bad moderation, but your definition of a good moderator is "someone who won't ban me". Anyone who wants to ban you, it's political bias LDO, even though there have been long-term conservative posters who were not banned.

Well you seem old and like a cloud yeller so im going to go with that anyway.

Come on guys, he was a deplorable. He was treated fairly. This is a new era for politics and the totally level headed mods are leading the way

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...postcount=7823

Also it's really tedious explaining simple things like "fake news" Jake Tapper already described it as fake news, he just didn't use the same vocabulary. For example, editing down a 1.5 minute video to 1 minute and formulating a story/narrative that is debunked by the other 30 seconds is "fake news". Go to Tappers twitter if you're still confused.
I realize its annoying and comes across as condescending explaining really simple and obvious things to adults behaving like emotional children. Wookie called me a white supremacist and when asked for evidence he found a post where I point out a completely uncontroversial statistic that there is a massive racial disparity in single parent homes. In the same post I also referenced the uncontroversial fact that single parent homes are disproportionately poor regardless of race. The impact on poverty as a predictor is enormous. I brought that up in response to Well Named lecturing everyone on the subject and being completely blind to this. I'm the first to admit its not exactly interesting. I realize close minded people don't want to hear things that contradict their assumptions. Apparently the mod calling me a white supremacist has hit a jackpot by finding me quoting Don Lemon and color blind poverty statistics. yawn
lol that was actually good

How this disappoints me on so many levels if that particular poster has left. But then again he can hardly be blamed as you can only take so much abuse and trolling for so long.

Sometimes and hopefully under this regime that a number of your troublesome posters reflect back and realise how lucky you are to have posters contribute to your forums from the other side when the environment that has been created is less than inviting to do so.

But hopefully too the moderation now will reflect this and if not at least Mason will be taking a much more active oversight role.

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See, that's an example of trolling because, in fact, I did read every gloriously stupid word of that and always do with juan valdez.

Our neurology is such that we tend to mirror the behavior of the people around us. That is why when you hear a laugh track on a sitcom, it is more likely you will laugh at the gag. Laughing is an infectious emotion and so are anger and hate.

MrWookie and Jman220 cultivated a field of anger and hate, which gets mirrored by new arrivals. MrWookie and Jman220 then cull the new arrivals from the group if they are "deplorables". Seattlelou, Rara and the other posters touted as conservatives who never got banned might just come from the set of people who have fewer mirror neurons and so didn't troll back.

Really... i had to start skimming a long time ago.