Do you snowflakes ever stop whining? Seriously.

Hey guys, let's call attention to probably the most abrasive poster in politics, Surely, showing the contrast between him and the average poster, with the exception of maybe FlyWf, won't somehow backfire and illustrate that, no, in fact, the average poster is very polite and not abrasive at all. Unxploitable!

-juan valdez et all, clever and thoughtful people to a man

Like you guys can't even take a win properly. Daddy Mason came along and told all the mean bullies they weren't allowed to hurt your fee fees any more and you're still not happy.

Not sure if Wookie answered but I'll put it like this:

There was a fine and respectable right-wing candidate in the election, somebody pro-capitalism and pro-markets and pro-military and anti-Neo New Deal policies and anti-Social Democratic policies, who would've made a fine president and is somebody I consider a worthy opponent of my leftist sensibilities. Her name is Hillary Clinton.

Even if we can't say what trump voters wanted when they pulled that lever, we can say what they clearly weren't satisfied with. My list is just a start.

Sorry pull the band aid off like that for any non-politics-posting-or-reading trump voters and supporters reading this thread but there it is. If USA#1 was a big boy country like other western nations the Dem primary would've been the general election. And as much as you might imagine your fellow Americans don't respect you for it, the citizens of those western nations respect you far, far less.

I'm just going to put this out there and people can have a think about this, as a proposition, but does anyone else realise how much this site would benefit from a balanced politics forum?

It would not only lend more credibility to this site for potential sponsors (who tend to be more sympathetic to conservative positions re business) but it would have immediate results in increasing the traffic on 2plus2, especially for those who may be lurkers and have that previous background in gambling but now have an even greater passion for politics now (due to Black Friday).

This would be enormously beneficial to a site that is dwindling overall in its popularity (and may I say advertising revenue as I've heard Mason say before).

I'm not going to engage in a giant derail, but the bolded is nothing but speculation. Nothing in the data you're citing establishes a direction of causation. For example:

You're one of those guys who thinks they're some sort of bold truth-teller dropping forbidden knowledge that the sheeple are too weak-minded to contemplate, whereas in fact you haven't even considered the most obvious alternative explanations. There is nothing more arrogant and tedious than that and it drips out of every word of your posts, which is why nobody is interested in reading them.

I mean, is this true though? Coming to mind is that time we discussed the SSM vote in Australia and you were like "Children getting raised by gay parents has a negative effect on the children" and I was all "Actually no, here's links to research which uniformly shows that children of gay parents are well-adjusted" and you were like "I'm entitled to my opinion". I'm not sure that contribution brought much value to the table.

I don't want to be too aggressive here because you seem like an OK guy, but can you see how the above is frustrating? You're just dumping untruths into the thread and then refusing to defend them when challenged. It's like having someone abruptly hang up on you.

Um - how were you ever a mod? Wookie can you explain this?

Did I? Or did I say that the research wasn't credible enough to rely on given the sample size at this stage?

Hahahahhahaahahahaha oh yeah dude the sponsors who put ads on this site are totally opening the Politics forum and wondering what kind of balance is here, great call, that's totally a real thing



lol did this post come out of the time machine from 2012?


Well done bundy, this is a ****ing doozy of a post, hard to stack up this much wrong into so few words

So the current (as in former) politics forum was a net positive for this site, was it?

Do we have to go see how you responded to him and how he feels about you, back in unchained/p7? We really have to play this game?

Lol nvm. A few posts later:



heh

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...postcount=7971

TBH - my opinion has changed on Well Named and wouldn't want him to be a mod of an alternative politics forum now given the shift of the politics forum closer to the ideals he exhibits. It makes him the perfect choice as a moderator of politics but for a moderator of an alternative politics forum it would need to be someone from the centre.

I'm a (very) long time poster with good standing who has never been infracted let alone banned. I also spend my time here providing quality, amusing, and pithy content and I've never caused a headache for mat (outside of the whole brucez thing which was out of my hands very quickly). I don't (for example) spend my whole time bitching and moaning about a site that I voluntarily choose to post on.

Thanks for keeping us updated, this is a valuable opinion that someone is definitely going to listen to someday

Why does it not surprise me that someone as far left as Wookie hasn't been infracted - probably why you got the gig in the first place.

Just on a side note, what do you think of the current labour party in the UK?

Yes. And btw, it is already balanced. We have everything but Nazis and nazis.

It is to me. Its a great place to get news on my idiot president and fubar government. It also has a lot of intelligent posters i like to read.

If you go by number of complainers to supporters its not even close.

I got the gig in large part to act as a counter balance to wookie as it was thought that the forum needed an ACist mod. Plus as a UKer I could spamhunt in the off hours when the mighty wook was asleep.

Corbyn rocks on domestic issues but has obvious blinkers in terms of the EU. I think he is tactically misplaying a number of issues but I'll take the 30% shot at an actual left wing government over a dead cert with a Blair 2.0 type.

tom, weren't you a libertarian for quite awhile in the earlier days of the forum?

Still am. I stayed true, the world moved around me.

Tom & wookie are far left ???

Labour party is good these days. Long may it last.

This.

And as the moderation has done a good job of removing posters who repeatedly post lies in place of reasoned and supportable arguments (like the poster who's dominated this thread) it's mainly easy to read for a digest of current events.

I thought so! So then:

LOL bundy, what a clown