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9 hours ago, SDS said:
I know...
We are still here... 22 years later. Everyone has always been welcome regardless where you came from, BBI, BZ, BBMB, wherever.
This encapsulates the answer you're looking for, as well as other posts in various threads, specifically Former's spotlight vs floodlight analogy.
You should also ask yourself why have you been brought into this corner of the site that you've historically avoided, and are trying to figure out what happened.
So in summary, this place has existed (with bumps along the way) for 20+ years, and has developed a pretty decent system of raw survival of the fittest posting style. The rules were pretty simple - open dialogue and rude exchanges were common, but among people with tough skins. There's a reason many people don't like to visit these lands, because to many, the discourse is too rough. Those people stayed away, and left the proverbial jailhouse yard to the inmates.
Things changed at the start of the year with an influx of people who were intent on taking the site down. I argued they were bots, you disagreed. But that's really immaterial to these posters' agenda. They don't come here to converse. They come to disrupt. That has also happened before, but the self-policing that's existed here over the decades drove them away. The other major difference this time is a handful of new whiners who openly state that they don't like this site, despite continuing to post, and run to mommy for help.
Yeah, Greggy stepped over the line. But that's like flagging Jerry Hughes for a visible personal foul, but ignoring his facemask being pulled for the 10 previous plays.
That's why you were called into this mess, when you have more pressing things.
So to recap - why did this site suddenly become an issue over the last 6 months, when it's handled its own issues pretty well before? Is it really the posters who've been a consistent presence here for years, decades?
Answering these questions honestly will go a long way to getting the solution that you seek.
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21 hours ago, SoTier said:
Soooo ... another one bites the dust???? Who knew that a few lefties (ie, anybody left of the Trump nutwing of the GOP) could wreak such havoc on the petty tyrants entrenched on PPP?
Except that the new bots had nothing to do with building up this board over 20 years, and everything to do with blowing it up in 6 momths.
This is a microcosm of the socialist rhetoric, thinking that things just appear out of nowhere, and tearing thing down will lead to a better outcome, even after you chase away people who build things. Enjoy your victory.
Bye bye.
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18 minutes ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:
The site has rules. Yes even here in what some people call the cesspoolif you continue to disobey TOS
you reap what you sow.
I like DR but that’s not the point now is it.
The TOS also include terms that the new bots have repeatedly ignored, yet they're all still here in force.
No, thanks. It's been a great ride.
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DR got tossed. Because, you know, the community is so much better since the bots arrived.
You will be made to care.
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Must have been on the bus or flight back somehow or at the airport lounge
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4 hours ago, SectionC3 said:
Hoax.
Of course it is, gravedancer.
Wearing a neck gaiter may be worse than no mask at all, researchers find
Duke study finds some cotton cloth masks are about as effective as surgical masks, while thin polyester spandex gaiters may be worse than going maskless.
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The mask debate is the polar opposite of the HCQ debate. Both offer marginal benefits in the fight vs Covid, so why not use as much protection as possible?
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2 hours ago, Alaska Darin said:
Yeah...unrelated.
The left can't be anti-semitic because their intentions are good.
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2 minutes ago, BullBuchanan said:
Antifa
You are a comedian. Marxists for private property!
Gold, Jerry. Pure Gold
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Just now, BullBuchanan said:
You seem to have trouble figuring out the difference between the left and democrats. The only thing we share is a common enemy.
Point me to anyone on the "left" or "Democrats" who are fighting for the enumerated Constitutional rights.
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3 minutes ago, BullBuchanan said:
The left has been defending them and the right is murdering and assaulting them for it.
Now that is really funny. The crazy left is all about protecting free speech of everyone and ensuring gun rights for the populace. Good one.
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3 minutes ago, BullBuchanan said:
Freedoms like the first, second, and fourth amendment?
Who's attacking them and who's defending them? You have a wholly twisted view of what's been going on, take the orange blindfold off.
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11 minutes ago, Dub said:
Holy cow! Heard about the attack on the morning news, had no idea it was Rick. We weren't too far away at the time.
TMZ, also didn't note that the attack occurred literally within a few blocks of Gozer's home.
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1 hour ago, BullBuchanan said:
I've already defined them for you. Feel free to counter.
You didn't define them. You threw out pseudo definitions, qualified with fake strawmen. Classic liberalism is still wrapped around individual rights, protecting private property, intellectual and religious freedoms. Now tell m how Shapiro and Prager, or most people on the right here don't fall under that definition?
Calling for the state to step in and to enforce these tenets which are fundamental to the founding of the Republic, which are under attack from the lunatic leftist fringe, does not somehow turn one into a fascist or the perverted definition of alt-right. Alt-right is a rebadging of white supremacy, which is not the same as defending the freedoms that are granted by US laws.
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6 minutes ago, BullBuchanan said:
Ok, so your example of who is NOT alt-right are Praeger and Shapiro?
This statement proves that you have no idea of what classical liberalism and alt-right are.
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1 minute ago, BullBuchanan said:
In my experience there's not very many of those types of conservatives left. The media has nearly nothing to do with it. It's all personal experience.
The classic conservatives I know would have never defended a government agency throwing people in the back of a van without a warrant and detaining them at hidden locations without charges. They also wouldn't have defended police breaking into a woman's home an murdering her in the middle of the night. In fact, they still don't. They believed first and foremost in liberty and that government was a necessary evil.
The alt-right is willing to forego their liberties as long as it hurts people they view as enemies. Except masks for some reason Masks are where the tyranny starts apparently.There was a true alt-right poster here who got banned. He wasn't in the same universe as the long-standing conservatives here. You realize you're proving our point, since Ben Shapiro and Denis Prager are categorized as alt-right by the media. As I said before, the media now lumps in anyone who supports the theories of classic Western Civ, Enlightenment and Reformation as alt-right. That's outright bonkers.
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5 minutes ago, BullBuchanan said:
Classical liberalism is essentially "conservative classic" without the jesus and "the neighborhood's going to hell" when a black family moves in across the street. It's a right wing ideology based on small government and free market capitalism.
Which is essentially every conservative poster on this site.
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Just now, BullBuchanan said:
No, not at all. They didn't use to support authoritarian police, forced sterilization and other abuse of border officials, selling out our country to other nations, sexual abusers, etc.
They used to have morals and a conscience. I still do.I'm sure they don't use false strawmen to argue their positions either.
I'm guessing is that they don't have a repulsive reaction whenever they see Trump, so to you they're alt-right, despite not changing one bit.
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1 minute ago, BullBuchanan said:
Never met a classic conservative in these parts. I know many in real life. Most of my family used to be conservative classic, before they turned alt-right.
You mean they remained conservative classic, and you changed your definition, like everyone else.
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1 minute ago, meazza said:
No you don't based on your posting history.
Took the words out of my mouth
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Gee took much shorter than I thought for the killing brigade to start advocating war with China.
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16 minutes ago, Bakin said:
Judaism is based on matrilineal descent.
Kerry is not Jewish.
By definition, he's not Jewish
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Dangit, he was my sleeper DraftKings pick
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9 hours ago, meazza said:
You are on ignore and yet I sometimes see your posts.The ignored list somehow gets unlocked when you respond to a post through a notification.
What would you like to see be done here?
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You admit that you are new to PPP, by are claiming that "recently" this forum became dominated by posters of a particular mindset? I'll agree with you on the latter, but not for the reasons you're thinking. If you want to communicate, a bit of introspection is helpful.
Again, this place has been in existence for 20+ years. Most of the people who were banned over the years were not liberals.