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Persecution. That made me chuckle. Here’s the deal. He who owns the site makes the rules. The fact that advertisements appear on the site indicate that, to at least a certain extent, it is a business. My sense of the tenor here is that this place was a right-wing echo chamber for a long time that slowly became conspiratorial in conjunction with the rise of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Some people with different viewpoints, e.g., moderate to left wing beliefs grounded in truth, science, and fact, began to patronize this forum—perhaps in view of the pandemic and the increased work from home/down time—and began to challenge the positions and views taken by what formerly was the vast majority of community members who post on this site. Some of those challenges were and are based on humor, satire, and sarcasm, e.g., characterizing right-wing tropes such as mass voter fraud and the lies that accompany that theory as a “hoax” and “fake news.” That was not accepted well. Instead of engaging in civil discourse and dialogue grounded in things such as truth, science, and fact, many extreme right or alt-right posters defaulted to denigrating those with different views. I can’t speak to precisely how many times I have been called a “pedo,” “vile,” “soulless scum,” “idiot,” “3rd Chair,” “deeply stupid,” etc. But it’s a lot. None of it is bothersome, and some of it can be taken in good humor (3rd Chair is actually kind of funny). But other insults, frankly, would be disturbing if attached to my real name. I can guarantee that somebody who slandered me as a “pedo” in conjunction with my given name would receive suit papers in short order. And it wouldn’t be a summons with notice, either. Much of the vitriol also is tiresome. Let’s return to the point about this being an ad-based community. Surely there’s a balance between promoting discourse (it attracts eyeballs and clicks) and permitting dialogue that actually runs off customers. I sense that the site owner recognized that the insult of some of his customers had become too vitriolic and too mean-spirited. I wouldn’t want to be responsible for that kind of dialogue, and I suspect that he doesn’t either. So, in the end, a decision in furtherance of that point was made. I respect it. And I’ll note the irony in the extreme right alt-right crowd complaining about the “death” of an anonymous Internet username during a pandemic in which over 200,000 Americans have died—many without sympathy here and many of them needlessly for reasons well explained in other parts of this forum. So perhaps this “ban” issue is best summarized this way: it is what it is.

Nope. I found him amusing. And truthful, for what it’s worth. To my knowledge, he/she didn’t do anything that others with a contrary viewpoint haven’t done and don’t do.

Explain what to me? How HCQ isn’t a prophylactic with respect to COVID-19? https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638 Or how the drug doesn’t help hospitalized COVID-19 patients? https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-halts-clinical-trial-hydroxychloroquine Or how the FDA has cautioned against the use of HCQ w/r/t COVID-19 outside of a hospital or a clinical setting? https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-cautions-against-use-hydroxychloroquine-or-chloroquine-covid-19-outside-hospital-setting-or Science, 1; HCQ and “Doc,” 0. Delusion amplified by steroid use. Not a good combination for a guy with the nuke codes. For once I agree with Don Jr./Uday. Hoax. Interesting how yesterday’s presser revealed favorable information about the president, but potentially (and, frankly, likely) unfavorable information was shielded by HIPAA? Nope. He looks like a guy who has benefitted from steroids, who gasped for breath last night, and who has yet to reach the critical stage of this virus. Right on. Coming from the guy who took a helicopter ride to a hospital because he had the virus.

Not to mention the fact that there are probably hundreds of thousands of “long haulers” who experience effects of virus exposure for weeks and even months. Virus “casualties” aren’t limited to moralities.

I’ll make sure I do it with zinc and vitamin D. Hoax. Just like the utility of hydroxychloroquine in combating COVID.

208,000 people disagree with this clown.

Hoax. It was untested. Trump made it up and you bought it hook, line, and sinker. Just like the fish tank cleaner people.

Not in the least. Big there are some whack jobs here. Better safe than sorry.

Interesting. This is some twisted medical advice this guy gets. Compassionate use treatment for a guy who is healthy as a horse. Then, apparently, that experimental treatment — with respect to which no study has been finished — is deemed better than the HCQ magic bullet. I guess that leaves us but two options: the experimental treatment is superior to HCQ because HCQ is of minimal worth in COVID cases and anything, even Lysol, is of better value. Or the experimental stuff is a wing and a prayer and nobody knows right now if it is superior to HCQ, bleach, or whatever else the leader of the free world may want pumped into his system.

I’ll answer with generalities. Worked my *ss off to get where I am. Always try to do the right thing. Believer in the truth and in treating people the right way. Hopeless smart*ss. But I won’t get more specific because some of the people who read this are nuts.

Hoax. You don’t speak for the board.

Interesting. Better stuff like, say, an experimental treatment? Or, say, better stuff, like the steroid used to treat moderate to severe cases of COVID?

Lock her up!

Motion with purpose is a beautiful thing. That’s a “Patriots” thing.

It appears that you find dissenting viewpoints irksome. Freedom of speech (in this semi public setting) is a sometimes fickle thing, is it not?

Seriously. Healthiest president ever should grab his hydroxychloroquine and get back to the Oval Office. and maybe the next time he gets his obese, lying rear end there he could wear a mask. Which, of course, is a practice that would get everyone back to work more quickly.

Yup. Hillary is not the president. Trump is. Unless, of course, the 25th amendment has been invoked and we just don’t know about it yet.

Based on what? His COVID diagnosis? His comorbidities? The sham video he put out? The dexamethasone? Do tell. How come Trump isn’t being treated with hydroxychloroquine?

Who should have been banned?

It’s not a it good side. It’s about the edit. The audio. No reason to use a jump cut other than the guy couldn’t get through 10 seconds without coughing. He is very sick.

What’s conspiratorial about good? He couldn’t get a clean take in a 10-second shoot. Something is very wrong with him.

He’s a pitcher with a 92 MPH FB and a marginal breaking ball. He can hang around for a little bit, but there’s nothing that he does exceptionally well. Glad we got something for him on the way out.

I’m more concerned about the lack of decency that gave rise to a pandemic that we tried to cure with magic, Lysol, hydroxychloroquine, and lies.

Fake news. Too much truth for you. He’s lying to the public about the nature of his condition. The evidence is circumstantial, but it’s there and it is stark.