EPTUS Politics Feedback Thread - Page 126
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Dangermousecatdog
United Kingdom7084 Posts
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Introvert
United States4825 Posts
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Howie_Dewitt
United States1416 Posts
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
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Danglars
United States12133 Posts
On April 23 2018 07:02 Howie_Dewitt wrote: When are you two going to fight, and where will it be streamed When you get to 2017, you’ll find the post where he suggests a political conversation with me would likely lead to him punching me. But that’s way past 2015, and even way past the phase where I’m at least partially on board with white supremacist according to him. On April 23 2018 08:37 ticklishmusic wrote: clicking on that post led me to the fact it is danglar's cake day. so happy cake day danglars! And I’m all caught up with the thread I’m been banned from these last three weeks! I kinda miss discussing the news with the shitposter horde some, but that’s definitely in the past now. | ||
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
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bo1b
Australia12814 Posts
On April 19 2018 07:52 Plansix wrote: I said back early 2017 that everyone needs to touch the stove. Republicans don’t like state employees having collective bargaining. Now they get to deal with all these strikes, which collective bargaining was used to avoid in the past. They wanted to cut state taxes, now their states are on fire. Racism is being ignored and protections are being rolled back, so they get to deal with an increasingly angry number of brown folks protesting. Gotta touch that stove. You just wait though, the time will come for the left to touch the stove. Hard to know the shape and form, but we are that dumb too. From an outside perspective the left already has touched the stove. Trump and his rabid fanbase didn't come from no where. | ||
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Excludos
Norway8111 Posts
On April 23 2018 16:53 bo1b wrote: From an outside perspective the left already has touched the stove. Trump and his rabid fanbase didn't come from no where. I'm not sure you can say they came from anywhere as much as they've always been there, they only got really rabid and showed their true colors when their racism and regressive ways suddenly became accepted by a whole party desperate for votes. | ||
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bo1b
Australia12814 Posts
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Excludos
Norway8111 Posts
On April 23 2018 19:27 bo1b wrote: Yeh I'm sure roughly 40% of America just discovered it was ok to be rabid, racist and regressive for no real reason 2 years ago. Pretty much. It's been a really long time since you've had a presidential candidate (and now president) who embodies blatant racism and hate like this, riding on the wave of rising concerns from having a black (gasp) president for 8 years. He has with the GOP at his back made it clear that this is an acceptable way to behave, and every racist and hateful bigot who has previously kept to themselves have come out and loudly proclaim their support for him and what he stands for. Like I said, racism didn't just suddenly pop out from nowhere, they've always been there. They just haven't had this kind of support in modern history. | ||
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Tachion
Canada8573 Posts
On April 23 2018 16:53 bo1b wrote: From an outside perspective the left already has touched the stove. Trump and his rabid fanbase didn't come from no where. In what ways do you think that's happened? | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On April 23 2018 19:27 bo1b wrote: Yeh I'm sure roughly 40% of America just discovered it was ok to be rabid, racist and regressive for no real reason 2 years ago. I’m not going to cite any stats, but I didn’t worry about White supremists marching in 2014. The number of racist might not have changed, but there are a lot more people that are just indifferent about racism. | ||
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iamthedave
England2814 Posts
On April 25 2018 06:07 Plansix wrote: I’m not going to cite any stats, but I didn’t worry about White supremists marching in 2014. The number of racist might not have changed, but there are a lot more people that are just indifferent about racism. Or at least the racists feel strongly emboldened. The neo nazis in Charlottesville openly posted that they felt the President 'had their backs' and considered his lukewarm condemnation to be supportive of their cause. It's a powerful thing, feeling like you can go out and be honest. Ask any gay person who's come out of the closet. It's just that instead of coming out and saying you're in love with someone, you're coming out and saying loud and proud that you hate people. | ||
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
On April 22 2018 16:58 Introvert wrote: Since someone mentioned Danglars, I am curious... Just how long is a "temporary" ban? Shouldn't it increase incrementally, sort of like a regular ban? We're going on 2.5 weeks now. I suspect that what's happened instead is that the mods simply aren't keeping track, though I could be wrong about that. it would indeed be nice; and better form, if there was some sort of stated plan/duration. maybe somethin glike "after one month the mods will discuss amongst themselves what the net effects were". rather than a vague and indefinite effect with no clear future plan or system in place. | ||
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Aveng3r
United States2411 Posts
On April 23 2018 23:18 ticklishmusic wrote: so out of curiosity, has anyone actually talked to stealthblue (and gotten a response) post ban? I also am curious about this. He clearly is still posting (and contributing, I would add) to other threads so I am curious as to what is being accomplished with his ongoing temp ban from UPMT | ||
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Mohdoo
United States15713 Posts
Are mods open to trying out a period of time where we revert the "no posting articles without analysis" rule? There have been numerous times I have just said "eh, fuck it", instead of posting an article in the thread. It doesn't make me put the effort into adding analysis. It just makes me not post articles. This is mostly a failure of my own, but I think it is a failure shared by a lot of members of the thread. In my eyes, with all the other rules being strictly followed, there is less reason to have the analysis requirement for posting articles. I think it would be worth seeing how the thread does with that requirement removed. I think a lot of discussion has been lost by adding this requirement. | ||
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LegalLord
United Kingdom13775 Posts
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Mohdoo
United States15713 Posts
On April 26 2018 05:04 LegalLord wrote: Not posting articles being the alternative to an asinine string of tweets or pointless pieces is a definite plus. One of the few highly correct decisions, long overdue. I agree there was certainly a wide range of content quality, but the rule does not selectively filter out those. It just ends up filtering out everything. We are still allowed to post a string of Trump tweets. We are just asked to give our views on the Tweets before hitting the post button. This feels like a case of throwing out the baby with the bathwater or however that phrase goes. Yeah, we got rid of some bullshit like "government spends billions on war but not UBI wtf????", but we also got rid of basically everything non-major. I see your point. But I imagine it is possible to find an inbetween. | ||
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Dangermousecatdog
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