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On January 09 2018 04:22 Jerubaal wrote:
I'm a little late to the party, but perhaps it should be discussed as to whether the politics thread needs a new start. I don't want to spend a lot of time assigning blame. Demographics being what they are, you would expect certain views to rise to the top, My experience, however, has been that anyone who expresses a viewpoint to the right of Joe Biden is berated and harangued endlessly and called a sorts of vile names at the drop of a hat. Why would any reasonable person come in to offer their opinion then? The only people that will be left are the extremely disagreeable people, and their behavior is used to further justify the belligerent atmosphere. It's quite a microcosm of politics.
A thread should be used to exchange ideas and have some sort of meeting of minds, not for backpats and target dummy practice.
One idea might be to have a Political News thread and another thread geared more towards political/philosophical principles.
I don't think this forum and Trump as president can do better. Even assuming tight moderation. The surrounding political landscape is more filled with haranguing, beration, and slurs than ever. A left-leaning to left-wing forum will generally be reflective of the surrounding atmosphere.
Even saying that I'm wrong and there's a solution to the state of center/right-of-center posters in US Politics thread, your solution is hardly a solution. Current events will lead to worldview discussions. Worldview discussions will lead to evidence in favor and opposed to worldviews. Go make a thread in website feedback with better suggestions and cite evidence for your points.
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Tebellong44238 Posts
On January 09 2018 04:57 Danglars wrote:
I don't think this forum and Trump as president can do better
I thought the whole point of the thread was to have a place where it was acceptable to slide annoying political commentary into every post instead of having people bring it into other threads without any sort of prompting or reason
*ahem*
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On January 09 2018 05:04 Sn0_Man wrote:Show nested quote +On January 09 2018 04:57 Danglars wrote:
I don't think this forum and Trump as president can do better I thought the whole point of the thread was to have a place where it was acceptable to slide annoying political commentary into every post instead of having people bring it into other threads without any sort of prompting or reason *ahem*
Go make a thread in website feedback with better suggestions and cite evidence for your points.
You'll see outside of your snip quote that I want to encourage him to make a post in correct forum for it. I thought the whole point was to reroute non-abusive posters into proper areas for engagement?
Secondly, did you miss the US Pol moderation shade thrown after Plansix in this thread? *ahem*
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On January 09 2018 04:29 farvacola wrote:
Your comment is particularly humorous in the context of the discussion taking place in the thread where people actively discuss the fate of the US politics thread. Perhaps you ought start there, in Website Feedback.
I just took a bath, so no thank you.
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United States42656 Posts
Vile people whose vile beliefs make them say vile shit get called vile.
They're the only people confused about why this keeps happening to them.
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On January 09 2018 07:00 KwarK wrote:
Vile people whose vile beliefs make them say vile shit get called vile.
They're the only people confused about why this keeps happening to them.
ba dum tishhhhhhh
..and like that
he's gone
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United Kingdom13775 Posts
Some real “pot calling the kettle black” action livening up the ABL today.
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TLADT24920 Posts
On January 09 2018 08:53 LegalLord wrote:
Some real “pot calling the kettle black” action livening up the ABL today.
What we all need are some bird pics! Those always help calm everyone down! :D
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On January 09 2018 09:07 BigFan wrote:Show nested quote +On January 09 2018 08:53 LegalLord wrote:
Some real “pot calling the kettle black” action livening up the ABL today. What we all need are some bird pics! Those always help calm everyone down! :D
How about this one?
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/YxuQksS.jpg)
Its plumage is quite lustrous.
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United Kingdom13775 Posts
On January 09 2018 09:07 BigFan wrote:Show nested quote +On January 09 2018 08:53 LegalLord wrote:
Some real “pot calling the kettle black” action livening up the ABL today. What we all need are some bird pics! Those always help calm everyone down! :D
How about the favorite bird of the US Politics thread?
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I actually do have a relevant bird from this summer!
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/g2Bm7cU.jpg)
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United Kingdom13775 Posts
That right there looks like some real high-quality freedom perched on that tree. I wonder what it’s doing in whatever backwater piss happened to be photographing in.
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With not even 5 million visitors annually, Yellowstone truly is a backwater for US standards 
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United Kingdom13775 Posts
They let anyone in these days...
Makes me wonder why our president isn’t doing enough to stop this.
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He should really double check anyone who is already in. I'd start with any potential russian spy.
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United Kingdom13775 Posts
Wrong president for that to be a problem. But we do need to stop suspicious foreigners from taking pictures of freedom until we figure out what’s going on.
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Building a wall over the Atlantic, high enough to stop planes, is a difficult task.
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United Kingdom13775 Posts
All the more reason to start sooner.
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We'd have one if only the US hadn't abandoned the Star Wars program due to mediocre reasons like technical infeasibility.
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On January 10 2018 06:04 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
We'd have one if only the US hadn't abandoned the Star Wars program due to mediocre reasons like technical infeasibility.
I don't know man The last jedi did have some pretty moments even if almost nothing makes sense technicaly.
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