A few thoughts about January 6, 2021

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I mean, the mean user here is so far left. The moderation rules just aren't viewpoint related.
Even if that were true (it isn't) the point that old escapist management did everything it could to be the place The Gamers(tm) discussed things like" ethics in games journalism " and fully tried to create a 4chan style subforum to appease the toxic scumbags. And still got absolute rode raw on all the actual alt - right forums because if you don't fall completely in lock step with their nonsense you are a woke culture warrior.
 

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Even if that were true (it isn't) the point that old escapist management did everything it could to be the place The Gamers(tm) discussed things like" ethics in games journalism " and fully tried to create a 4chan style subforum to appease the toxic scumbags. And still got absolute rode raw on all the actual alt - right forums because if you don't fall completely in lock step with their nonsense you are a woke culture warrior.
The Wild West was envisioned as a pressure release valve, but ultimately all it did was normalized bullshit alt-right memes and viewpoints. Im so glad I didn't know about it for the majority of 1.0 lifetime.
 
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If that means Commander Shepard of Mass Effect, I’ll be honest and say they’d probably be an improvement over just about anyone drawing breath in the corridors of power right now.
Yeah.



Then we'll get to choose between three different bad and underwhelming choices instead of our usual two.
 
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I mean, the mean user here is so far left.
It's hard not to be "so far left" to someone who wants an American theocracy.

Don't kill LGBTQ+, blacks can vote and own property, rich people pay taxes, and a living wage for people. Those aren't radical ideas
They are when you're dealing with people who want the country to be for them and only them.
 
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Oh wow, Capitol police were involved helping Jan 6th rioters trying to cover up their involvement in storming the Capitol.
Now look into the officers who helped the rioters get in.
 
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"So far left" perhaps by American standards, with the Overton Window shunted to the right.
You are very nearly in the top 5 furthest right users on the Current Events board here.
I'd say we have a higher than average ratio of democratic socialists.
There are more actual communists in this thread than conservatives.

Quick edit for clarity: this is not a Red Scare everything I don't like is communism claim. I'm talking about people who would self-identify as communists vs people who would self-identify as conservative.
 
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It's me isn't it? I'm the mean user. I just get easily fed up with bullshit, no point in being polite about it.
Mean as in average. I believe you got that and are making a joke of it, but just in case anybody missed that.
Even if that were true (it isn't) the point that old escapist management did everything it could to be the place The Gamers(tm) discussed things like" ethics in games journalism " and fully tried to create a 4chan style subforum to appease the toxic scumbags. And still got absolute rode raw on all the actual alt - right forums because if you don't fall completely in lock step with their nonsense you are a woke culture warrior.
It is true, but I appreciate what you are saying otherwise. Crazy (sometimes right-wing) people were far from silenced here.
 

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You are very nearly in the top 5 furthest right users on the Current Events board here.
Lol no. What's happening here is that you don't actually have a very good understanding of what your opponents believe-- you refuse to take their own words for it, and tend to just ascribe your own head-canon and then engage with that.
 
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You are very nearly in the top 5 furthest right users on the Current Events board here.
Man, I disagree with Silvanus on a lot but like they're still center left...

There are more actual communists in this thread than conservatives.

Quick edit for clarity: this is not a Red Scare everything I don't like is communism claim. I'm talking about people who would self-identify as communists vs people who would self-identify as conservative.
Well that's just because all the conservatives here lie about being conservatives. But they have a very obvious tell. They believe in taking away rights from women and minority groups and they preach it fucking loudly.
 

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Lol no. What's happening here is that you don't actually have a very good understanding of what your opponents believe-- you refuse to take their own words for it, and tend to just ascribe your own head-canon and then engage with that.
Name 7 people here you think are right of you.
Man, I disagree with Silvanus on a lot but like they're still center left...
Yes, that is my point.
Well that's just because all the conservatives here lie about being conservatives. But they have a very obvious tell. They believe in taking away rights from women and minority groups and they preach it fucking loudly.
There are like 3 of us that would self-identify as right-wing conservative, and like another three that I would identify that way but would likely describe themselves differently. And then every other user here (specifically current events, I don't actually know what people do in the other sub-forums) is left wing.
 

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Name 7 people here you think are right of you.
No, because specifically naming people is likely to piss people off and start fights.

I could talk about what I believe instead, which I'm comfortable in saying is quite a bit to the left of the mean user here. But that would end up being a bit wanky, so I'd prefer not to do that too.

The best option here is that you just stop assuming you know everyone else's mind better than they do.
 

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Nobody cares about Republican or Democratic at all. All we care about is the lesser-evil.

Everybody wanted Bush out but for some reason why had to have this grandson of a Nazi in office allowing children to get slaughtered and recall to a war that was not going to end in anybodies favor. Oh I know why because nobody seemed to care about clean energy alternatives.

Everybody wanted Obama because the opposition was terrible. Sarah Palin and a guy talking about Nuclear Batteries in cars. I mean Sarah Palin I would vote for but when somebody says "Men in the Navy live with Nuclear batteries in submarines" do you think you want his vote.

Then when it came to Obama v. Hillary, she promoted the V-tech V-chip and censoring of videogames. It was so popular a company made this game system a reality along with televisions ( CRT ) that could block content. Even Nintendo hopped on this action and made the Wii, the worlds most cleanest
and non-violent console ever, where you have to build a light-gun using third-party products, or point your Wiimote.

When it came to Trump v. Hillary. Okay an elderly man of 70 something who clearly has a wig and or colored hair and face is airbrushed, along with plastic surgery family came in and pretended it was 1970's something and prince-charles was being marketed as a bachelor but instead of his pompus Welsh voice in his twenties we got this mad-man screaming at the audience spouting stupidity, like "deport children of immigrants" or even "Yes to war with Iran". I mean nobody cares about his out-dated potty-mouth, or his random rent-a-wife who has separate rooms from him. Nobody cares at all. Just that he was actually saying things that everybody knew was not going to happen and even before the election start everybody place bets on Hillary. The one canidate that was logical and making sense in the end made people believe that he wanted to make US citizens come out in chain-gangs and peel potatoes, even if he was the most decent and academic sounding choice. Then he tossed it all away and visited Pope. Then it became Marcy-Darcy v. Al Bundy in court-room scene all over again. That sums up the election when you present somebody in the audience who would testify against Bill and Hill for holding her down when she was twelves further conforming that Hillary must be a man-hating Lesbian of sorts, and the abuse reports of Bill from former secret-service men, along with the fact some random women Bill slept with mentioned "She would not let him have any children" or the fact that Hillary one daughter might not Be blood-related.

In other news Bill Gates daughter works in the medical industry and his former wife is living off her foundations, charities, and philanthropy fueled by her husbands money via our purchases of Windows

It is all about the lesser-evil. Not who is correct nor incorrect.
 

PsychedelicDiamond

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Nobody cares about Republican or Democratic at all. All we care about is the lesser-evil.

Everybody wanted Bush out but for some reason why had to have this grandson of a Nazi in office allowing children to get slaughtered and recall to a war that was not going to end in anybodies favor. Oh I know why because nobody seemed to care about clean energy alternatives.

Everybody wanted Obama because the opposition was terrible. Sarah Palin and a guy talking about Nuclear Batteries in cars. I mean Sarah Palin I would vote for but when somebody says "Men in the Navy live with Nuclear batteries in submarines" do you think you want his vote.

Then when it came to Obama v. Hillary, she promoted the V-tech V-chip and censoring of videogames. It was so popular a company made this game system a reality along with televisions ( CRT ) that could block content. Even Nintendo hopped on this action and made the Wii, the worlds most cleanest
and non-violent console ever, where you have to build a light-gun using third-party products, or point your Wiimote.

When it came to Trump v. Hillary. Okay an elderly man of 70 something who clearly has a wig and or colored hair and face is airbrushed, along with plastic surgery family came in and pretended it was 1970's something and prince-charles was being marketed as a bachelor but instead of his pompus Welsh voice in his twenties we got this mad-man screaming at the audience spouting stupidity, like "deport children of immigrants" or even "Yes to war with Iran". I mean nobody cares about his out-dated potty-mouth, or his random rent-a-wife who has separate rooms from him. Nobody cares at all. Just that he was actually saying things that everybody knew was not going to happen and even before the election start everybody place bets on Hillary. The one canidate that was logical and making sense in the end made people believe that he wanted to make US citizens come out in chain-gangs and peel potatoes, even if he was the most decent and academic sounding choice. Then he tossed it all away and visited Pope. Then it became Marcy-Darcy v. Al Bundy in court-room scene all over again. That sums up the election when you present somebody in the audience who would testify against Bill and Hill for holding her down when she was twelves further conforming that Hillary must be a man-hating Lesbian of sorts, and the abuse reports of Bill from former secret-service men, along with the fact some random women Bill slept with mentioned "She would not let him have any children" or the fact that Hillary one daughter might not Be blood-related.

In other news Bill Gates daughter works in the medical industry and his former wife is living off her foundations, charities, and philanthropy fueled by her husbands money via our purchases of Windows

It is all about the lesser-evil. Not who is correct nor incorrect.
Did you have a stroke writing this or did I when I was reading it?
 

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No, because specifically naming people is likely to piss people off and start fights.
I specifically allow you to tell everyone if you think you are more or less right wing than me. I promise i won't get angry.

Just slightly curious about impressions.
 

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I specifically allow you to tell everyone if you think you are more or less right wing than me. I promise i won't get angry.

Just slightly curious about impressions.
Had a quick look at your post history to remember, and I wouldn't really be able to tell.
 

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No, because specifically naming people is likely to piss people off and start fights.

I could talk about what I believe instead, which I'm comfortable in saying is quite a bit to the left of the mean user here. But that would end up being a bit wanky, so I'd prefer not to do that too.

The best option here is that you just stop assuming you know everyone else's mind better than they do.
You literally have the same position on polling as Donald Trump. When western pollsters and yes they are western pollsters go into Russia, you think it's fake news.
 

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Please do not insult other forum users
You literally have the same position on polling as Donald Trump. When western pollsters and yes they are western pollsters go into Russia, you think it's fake news.
If one believes US election results are legitimate, they must simultaneously believe that all polls and elections worldwide-- in single-party dictatorships etc-- are exactly as legitimate, apparently.

You're a complete clown.