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Post by Least censored on the planet! on Aug 16, 2023 3:05:30 GMT -5
How are you today fellow uncensored people? Spare a thought for poor censored anti-mask anti-trans anti-?? (children's space ??) activists!
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herzlos
Ye Olde King of OT
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Post by herzlos on Aug 16, 2023 5:41:43 GMT -5
ETC feels like a similar blow to my enjoyment as the Dakka politics 'banning'. The loudest get to dictate any discussions, movies? Woke. Comic books? Woke. Broader participation in the hobby? Woke. Implying the Imperium is wrong? Woke coming soon TM. Can't talk about this, it might make the wrong people upset to learn they live in a society broader than Fox News America. Yeah I'm the same. I wish Dakka had gone down the actually moderating things approach than just nuking politics. I appreciate things were pretty polarized with the whole Hilary/Trump/Brexit nonsense, but a little bit of banhammer could have resulted in a really good debate space. I'm very curious as to what happened to Dakka traffic and moderation effort after that, because whilst I noticed that politics would spill over into everything else, I more or less stopped visiting.
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herzlos
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Post by herzlos on Aug 16, 2023 5:44:06 GMT -5
Anyway, like MDG, I'm also pro-choice but not really pro-abortion. I'd much rather every effort was made to prevent unwanted pregnancies to begin with, but the right to life crowd is often also very much against proper sex education and birth control accessibility. That said, I'm neither a woman nor a deity, so I don't really have a right to any authority in the matter. Exactly, but I don't think Tides can pick up the nuance that pro-choice isn't pro-abortion, or that pro-life isn't actually pro-life. I'm not a fan of abortions, but as a cis-male I'm firmly of the opinion that it's none of my freaking business. I'd rather we dealt with teen pregnancy issues with education and access to services, but then I don't believe that a womans place is there purely to pop out babies.
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Post by pacific on Aug 16, 2023 8:21:51 GMT -5
ritides - Please stop. There is nothing you can say or do. It is over. Move on. There is no closure here by trying to engage or "tell your side". You tried something new, you felt it was a failure. Move on from it. ********************* @everyone here! If the old forum is still causing you mental anguish and you NEED to talk to someone about it, please go see a Therapist to work out any associated trauma. It is Okay to not be OKay. For your own mental health, please seek out a professional to help you heal any trauma and move on with your life. I say this from a place of friendship and compassion for everyone that has experienced trauma from ETC. Just re-posting Easy-E's comment here. I'm not going to bother engaging with Tides' post, as I don't think anything can be gained at this point, and reading it has left me feeling more than a little unsettled.
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Post by bobtheinquisitor on Aug 16, 2023 9:31:44 GMT -5
As for the rest of it; you really don't see the difference between nuking your own site, and nuking a site that you'd handed over to someone else - do you? This is especially funny considering this latest discussion began with him offering to hand over his minis to someone else. One wonders if he was planning to sneak in and destroy them with a hammer if the buyer didn’t game to his liking.
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Post by steelmage99 on Aug 16, 2023 18:13:58 GMT -5
Have any of you noticed, that the more extremist you become, the more convinced you become of representing a huge silent majority - and those disagreeing with you are just a few nut cases. [ Is this addressed to us, “the left”? br] No, it's mostly addressed at RiTides and his tirade. I see it mostly among Radical Evangelical Christians and MAGA idiots - You know, the type of people that likes to make statements like; "America is sick and tired of [insert nonsense here]". ...but of course it also appears among extremists on "the left".
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