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What do you think of my simply eliminating the ignore function?
Or at least be able to see who has you on ignore. No point in wasting time responding to a post from someone who has you on ignore.
What do you think of my simply eliminating the ignore function? It's kind of a pain to get right technically, and if people are not being personal, you're right that there's no reason not to hear from them.
Thanks @WookieMan
What do you think of my simply eliminating the ignore function? It's kind of a pain to get right technically, and if people are not being personal, you're right that there's no reason not to hear from them.
The egotistical,simply minded,brainwashed can't respond to anything in any way that could be called facts.
They particularly resent the truth. Name calling is fun when it's the truth.
A favor? One of those that have few "ignores" pass the above to the rest of patnet.
Right, Marcus usually avoids direct personal attacks.
Reasoned debate welcomed, but the left is very weak at anything except calling people "racist", inciting hate, and murder, so I don't expect anything but more of the same from them.
I have lost my patience with the violent left.
Last straw was the murder of a young mother named Jessica Doty Whitaker in Indianapolis because she said "All lives matter."
All of their TDS shit is incitement to murder like this. They will not post their shit here anymore.
No more leftists, no more murders.
Reasoned debate welcomed, but the left is very weak at anything except calling people "racist", inciting hate, and murder, so I don't expect anything but more of the same from them.
mell saysthey will go loot and burn and murder innocent people
Who are they ? All the liberals ? All the people to the left of Mitch McConnell.
The worst thing is when one side becomes authoritarian or worse when both poles do that. Funny that when right wingers engage in extreme censorship, their own cancel culture, or total authoritarian behavior, they can not even see it.
Meanwhile centrist or even conservative liberals, get grouped by these right wing authoritarians with criminal assholes that are off the charts on the left.
mell saysI think the automatic moderation comes from being flagged repeatedly.
No the automatic moderation comes from a sequence of events. Patrick is afraid of what I will say.
The only reason I am saying anything is becasue I guess to have a few last words about this sad situation before I leave. Unfortunatley , Patrick will very likely delete any comment of mine actually describing what happened.
I guess what happened is that my posting negative memes or cartoons about Trump is now "inciting violence."
Sometimes the self righteousness becomes too much for a right winger to bear.
SO much irony.
What too many BLM folks don't realize is that the actions of a few incompetent cops shouldn't be generalized on to all police or worse on to the entire "white supremacist culture."
Meanwhile give a right winger a few isolated sick or evil incidents that they can generalize on to the entire "left" and watch how fast they will do it with relish. And by the left, I mean anyone not planning on voting for Dear Leader.
Meanwhile give a right winger a few isolated sick or evil incidents
Seriously, I am going to delete all TDS because it is thinly disguised incitement to murder.
It's not funny anymore. The left is literally murdering people because of TDS.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-man-targeting-white-person-killed-motorcyclist
These are not "isolated" incidents. They follow directly from pervasive leftist hate in the media and in academia.
It is preparation for genocide.
Cmon these incidents are not isolated
https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-man-targeting-white-person-killed-motorcyclist
mell saysCmon these incidents are not isolated
Actually they are. They are not in any way what BLM people wanted.
WE all know who benefits from those events.
This is how authoritarian governments come to be.
mell saysCmon these incidents are not isolated
Actually they are. They are not in any way what BLM people wanted.
WE all know who benefits from those events.
This is how authoritarian governments come to be.
Floyd had a big rap sheet including armed robbery and was high on many drugs and aggressive and tried to pay with counterfeit money
Actually they are. They are not in any way what BLM people wanted.
@Patrick
I think the newest format here, with @marcus and some others being moderated, will change the site to an echo chamber, at which point posting here will become a boring "preaching to crowd". Not that it is much of my business, but I liked the previous policy "talk about everything but do not offend other users" better.
I disagree. I used to be of your thinking, but no longer. I have a number of disagreements with many of the posters, in particular Wookie Man and 10 lb bass but they pale in importance to the garbage and gaslighting being spewed by the left. So I choose to address the dangerous crap the left is doing.
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I got the patrick.net domain name back in 1995 when I was one day too late for patrick.com. Missing the .com name turned out to be fine. I prefer the .net name now because life is all about human networks. This site was just my personal blog from 1995 to 2004.
In 2004 I started writing about the housing bubble, which catapulted the site to national fame for a while. I was interviewed on NPR, on Nightline on TV, and in other corporate media that I have since learned to recognize as poison. Here are my original the articles about the housing bubble (the dates on them are much later because I updated them):
https://patrick.net/post/1282720/2015-07-11-ten-reasons-it-s-a-terrible-time-to
https://patrick.net/post/1282721/2015-07-11-eight-groups-who-lie-about-the-housing
https://patrick.net/post/1282722/2015-07-11-37-bogus-arguments-about-housing
The big housing bubble popped in 2008, and traffic fell, since it was no longer controversial to assert that we really had had a housing bubble.
About then, I decided to just let the public discuss other topics with each other and wrote my own forum software. I'm a programmer, so that was fun. At first I was kind of disturbed at the number of conservatives on the site, but as I discussed things with them and saw San Francisco literally turn to shit under far-left Democrat extremists, I changed my thinking.
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https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/thinking-points-september-21-2022
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