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We also dissuade passive aggressive behavior. This can be various things, but common examples include statements that are basically meant to imply someone is either stupid or otherwise incapable of holding a rational conversation. This can include (but is not limited to) laughing at someone's conclusions rather than offering an honest rebuttal, asking people what game they were watching, or another common problem is Poster X will say "that player isn't that bad" and then Poster Y will say something akin to "LOL you think that player is good". We're not going to tolerate those kinds of comments out of respect for the community at large and for the sake of trying to just have an honest conversation.

Now, does the above cover absolutely every single kind of distraction that is unwanted? Probably not, but you should by now have a good idea of the general types of things we will be discouraging. The above examples are meant to give you a good feel for / idea of what we're looking for. If something new or different than the above happens to come along and results in the same problem (that being, any other attitude or behavior that ultimately distracts from actually just discussing the topic at hand, or that is otherwise disrespectful to other posters), we can and we will take action to curb this as well, so please don't take this to mean that if you managed to technically avoid saying something exactly like one of the above examples that you are then somehow off the hook.

That all having been said, our goal is to do so in a generally kind and respectful way, and that doesn't mean the moment we see something we don't like that somebody is going to be suspended or banned, either. It just means that at the very least we will probably say something about it, quite possibly snipping out the distracting parts of the post in question while leaving alone the parts that are actually just discussing the topics, and in the event of a repeating or excessive problem, then we will start issuing infractions to try to further discourage further repeat problems, and if it just never seems to improve, then finally suspensions or bans will come into play. We would prefer it never went that far, and most of the time for most of our posters, it won't ever have to.

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George Floyd Protests and Riots

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  • Originally posted by BlueNGold View Post

    They were not pedestrians but domestic terrorists. With the cop having his lights on ALL of those people should have gotten the F off the road. Who the F do they think they are? Don’t morons today know they are to move off roadways when cops have their lights on? They may have been dispatched for a rape or murder incident. GTFO the road!

    Best case you can blame this on the left for making it harder to find good people to do the job. It doesn’t get better from here....
    "Blame the left!" Yawn.
    I'd rather die standing up than live on my knees.

    -Emiliano Zapata

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    • Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post
      MSNBC and CNN are not left either they are a right wing establishment pretending to be left.
      LMAO.

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      • Originally posted by BlueNGold View Post

        It's called balance. Also, the reason why minorities could have ANY power at all is because of this concept. I would think you would be thankful for that. Set aside any biases.

        Also, Democrats are the majority...NOT a minority in the liberal cities and states that write their criminal law, hire their prosecutors and police...and control city hall. The issue with the criminal justice system in major US cities is a Democrat problem, not GOP. GOP doesn't have any power to make change in those cities.
        Lot of the BS is in terms of federal laws as well - look at drug laws, mandatory minimums, disproportionate sentencing. Courts at all levels have regularly ignored the protect the minority in the face of white fright and systemic bias too. So no, it's not just all on the left. What about death penalty? That's state level. Oversimplification.
        I'd rather die standing up than live on my knees.

        -Emiliano Zapata

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        • Originally posted by BlueNGold View Post

          LMAO.
          This is the problem of living in a bubble and listening to Rush Limbaugh calling everybody “the enemy”, fact is Rush is in the same club with CNN, MSNBC clowns they all go to the same parties and laugh at the same poor people.



          @WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!

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          • Originally posted by Bball View Post

            I'm not 100% excusing a network for getting something wrong because they were swimming in dangerous waters and got bit. I'm just saying I don't want to see someone reading/watching some continual off the ranch opinion site that is masquerading as news, and then when they get called out on it because they don't know what they are talking about on a subject, and them throwing an outlier back at you from NBC, ABC, NPR, AP, or others as if that one mistake invalidates everything while they are wallowing in a sea of mistakes and intentional lies.
            And the story they are referencing they only know about it because the channel/site retracted it and owned the mistake. Meanwhile, they don't have to worry about many retractions when watching Tucker or Hannity. ...Well, except you can be assured they will tell you about OTHER channels and their retractions...

            IOW... I want a channel to strive to be accurate, no matter their bias. It's clear, Fox News, The Blaze, PJ Media, Western Journal, Info Wars, OAN, have no intention of even trying to maintain that standard. They're more interested in promoting their team than accuracy, and don't care if they have to lie to do it, or couch opinion as news.

            When you have people refusing to believe the AP because Fox News primetime told them something else... Or actually, just because the AP report paints something or someone from their team in a bad light and Fox News evening programming has conditioned them to call anything that doesn't fit the narrative "Fake news!!!" then we have a problem.

            When people are reading The Blaze, Info Wars, Newsmax, PJ Media, and get called on it being BS, they discredit you and your sources because you and/or the sites you give them for actual information are "liberal".

            The "fact checkers" are "liberal".

            Again... A bad situation. Much of this has gotten worse because of the giant feedback loop that Trump participated in with many of these sites, especially the already popular Fox News. And he drove them further right IMHO because that was the natural landing spot for them by carrying his water as Trump and Trumpism became the GOP's most solid and loyal base. And empowered. They want their news... and they want it to tell them exactly what they want to hear.
            Trump didn't drive Sean Hannity to the right or any of the other political commentators on Fox. The controversies at the station changed the make-up a bit when Bill O'Reilly was ejected. That part did shift it to the right IMO.

            But Fox is by far the most popular cable news and opinion even now in 2021. It's not fringe as much as it's viewpoints you and others on the left don't agree with.

            I admit Fox is biased. The Blaze, InfoWars, Newsmax, etc., are further to the right. Apparently there are no cable news stations left of center. Is that right?

            I mean, we have V in here saying this:

            Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post
            MSNBC and CNN are not left either they are a right wing establishment pretending to be left.
            The reality is, most of MSM....and I do consider them mainstream as is Fox...is left of center. 48% of the nation voted for Donald Trump or thereabouts. Hardly anyone at CNN and MSNBC likely voted for Trump. Think about that a bit...

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            • Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post

              This is the problem of living in a bubble and listening to Rush Limbaugh calling everybody “the enemy”, fact is Rush is in the same club with CNN, MSNBC clowns they all go to the same parties and laugh at the same poor people.


              So you are saying 50% of CNN people voted for Trump? You believe that?

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              • CNN and MSNBC are so right wing they have Kallyanne Conway, Rick Santorum, Chris Christie, Steven Miller, the right wingers from the Lincoln project that gave us Palin and Bush, Corey lewandowski, Amorosa, Karl Rove and Many other right wing “contributors” almost every night giving us their right wing point of views.


                Note how they never have a true leftie on their panels the one they had for a minute was Alexandra Rojas but that’s it, everybody else is just a bunch of right wingers that disagree in like 5% of s*** that’s it.
                @WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!

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                • Originally posted by BlueNGold View Post

                  So you are saying 50% of CNN people voted for Trump? You believe that?
                  Im talking about the networks not the viewers.


                  I bet the heads of those newtworks voted for the buffoon though as he was making them a lot of money.
                  @WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!

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                  • Originally posted by D-BONE View Post

                    Lot of the BS is in terms of federal laws as well - look at drug laws, mandatory minimums, disproportionate sentencing. Courts at all levels have regularly ignored the protect the minority in the face of white fright and systemic bias too. So no, it's not just all on the left. What about death penalty? That's state level. Oversimplification.
                    In most Indiana counties, the locals elect their judges. In Illinois, all judges are elected by their constituents. You can blame the people voting in the liberal counties where they were elected.

                    A total of 17 people were executed in 2020. I looked back into Obama's term and they were in the 30's and 40's and have been dropping. The DP is rarely applied and frankly it amounts to a talking point not worth discussion.

                    As for federal drug laws, I think you are smoking something. Pot is legalized in many states. Drugs have been decriminalized in Oregon. There are simply no more excuses.

                    Oregon Just Decriminalized All Drugs – Here's Why Voters Passed This Groundbreaking Reform
                    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...reaking-reform

                    Yet...they still not happy. Lots of good white domestic terrorists over there:

                    Portland rioting against Biden inauguration leads to charges for 4, more likely to follow
                    https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-...kely-to-follow

                    About 150 people marched on the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Oregon and a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building to protest against President Joe Biden's inauguration.

                    The demonstrators, mostly clad in black, spray-painted anarchy symbols on buildings and marched under a banner that read, "We are ungovernable."

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                    • Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post

                      Im talking about the networks not the viewers.


                      I bet the heads of those newtworks voted for the buffoon though as he was making them a lot of money.
                      Oh you mean like these management approved CNN articles?:

                      Chronicling Trump's 10 worst abuses of power
                      https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/24/polit...wer/index.html


                      Members are quitting 'sad' Mar-a-Lago after Trump loses
                      https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/24/busin...sts/index.html

                      ...or this now debunked story. Fake as F News:

                      Biden inheriting nonexistent coronavirus vaccine distribution plan and must start 'from scratch,' sources say
                      https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/polit...ump/index.html

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                      I dare you to post a positive Trump CNN article and I will bet you I can double the number of negative ones.

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                      • Example of communist/socialists/leftie Brian Williams in leftie MSNBC drooling all over the orange clown blowing up some country, those lefties Im telling ya.

                        https://youtu.be/jNHOJwgZyfo



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                        • Originally posted by BlueNGold View Post


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                          I dare you to post a positive Trump CNN article and I will bet you I can double the number of negative ones.
                          Too easy and this was not an article but a whole week.


                          https://youtu.be/KPhsSqXHRAs



                          LOL that whole CNN panel in the video is just a bunch of right wingers
                          Last edited by vnzla81; 01-24-2021, 11:51 AM.
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                          • Originally posted by Bball View Post
                            Again... A bad situation. Much of this has gotten worse because of the giant feedback loop that Trump participated in with many of these sites, especially the already popular Fox News. And he drove them further right IMHO because that was the natural landing spot for them by carrying his water as Trump and Trumpism became the GOP's most solid and loyal base. And empowered. They want their news... and they want it to tell them exactly what they want to hear.
                            Yet this exact same thing can be said about CNN (I remember when it was “jokingly” called Clinton News Network) when Clinton and Obama were POTUS

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                            • Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post

                              Too easy and this was not an article but a whole week.


                              https://youtu.be/KPhsSqXHRAs



                              LOL that whole CNN panel in the video is just a bunch of right wingers
                              So you are calling Van Jones a right winger?

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                              • Lefties/communists/socialists in CNN and MSNBC upset that Bernie was winning I wonder why?


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