Somebody appears to have forgotten to take their meds this morning.

I like to take my mods with a pinch of salt.

Not an insult. Definitely not. But a 21st century pet-name.

Does this qualify for the term "insulting an official"?

Short bit of info, she won't be replying for 2 weeks.

I take that as recognition that Trump is a spent force with absolutely no hope of re-election. That makes me exceptionally happy

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I know. It was rhetorical. No need for an answer.

I've already made up my mind about it - how EF is that?

Every couple of weeks the same people call on certain mod to step down, due to his integrity, bias, blah blah. Reality is these folks feel threatened ( no idea why ) when a mod is on the opposite political spectrum.

This happens exclusively with liberals So much for liberty

Last week it was MC, now it's LiB tomorrow will be FMF...

It's a good show to be honest!

Exactly, I don't particularly like to see threads locked nor longer term members banned for that matter. Better just ignore what you don't want to read, ultimately no one is forced to read everything.

This is so true! Now that comfort blanket that allowed many to be insulting and rude without reproach has been removed, there's certainly some hard feelings!

From the same Wikipedia article you linked to;
This is exactly the same as in my post so where is the problem?

You claimed my posts were erroneous which I do not accept.

"Different portrayal" - of course, this is simply called having a different opinion.

The fact is in that state if you point guns at " 500 Black Lives Matter protesters" you are guilty of a misdemeanor and get punished.

Their are a lot of right-leaning people, especially on a place like this, who like low taxes and an orderly society who absolutely detest Trump. Trump was great for separating those with principles and those without.

Heck - i've stood for the UK conservative party before and enjoyed reading Marton's posts.

Let's not make this a counterrevolution and shut down "left-of-centre" (if Marton even identifies with that - which I doubt actually) views, and instead follow FMF's comments to make this somewhere where everyone can have their say without getting banned or the thread locked.

Good question

Nope. It's about respect and standards. I don't share the same political views as RufusB or 22yds when he was here, but have no problem with either. With RufusB in particular, we 100% disagree on a particular issue, but I'd never fall out with her over it.

Every week it's MC LiB who? FMF will settle into the role, but I'm reminded of when GlowJupiter (?) became a mod and was harangued constantly by certain members of the forum. That was diabolical.

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CliiniMuus joined EF on 06.06.2021 so how many months ago should they have commented?

True, I am the opposite of left-wing.

I find Trump a fascinating case for social study, his success at convincing people that black is white and up is down is amazing.

He has amassed a huge following who believe everything he says.

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Well, they could have yesterday, the day before, over the week-end, last week .... you pick it.

There are two political spectrums? Since when?

What are they? Left-to-right, and Up-and-down`?

or is that you just don't have a clue what you are talking about?

The mystery of EF has me spellbound once again! Would still consider myself as a (comparative) newbie, not really au fait regarding various camps, past animosities, running feuds etc. etc. Really striking, for me initially, was the high number of banned users encountered while looking up current and old threads. Unnaturally curious and hoping to avoid a similar fate, I tried to unearth the reason why mods had waved their pink wands at the offending posters in question. My conclusion: in most cases (apart from slightly obvious, short term trolls), the really triggering, offensive post had been deleted or somebody (not necessarily the mod) has very thin skin – what goes on behind the scenes is obscure.
Instead of questioning LIB’s credentials as a not recently very active mod or poster, I’d like to suggest a review of the banning process. A mod who has personally engaged in a, let’s say confrontational exchange with a poster, should defer from banning the “offender” themselves.

Ah, the ominous screeching of moving goalposts.

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You would have thought that, wouldn't you? That would not be an unreasonable request.

Exactly!

It was an experiment into what happens when someone who isn't a politician is elected to the highest political office in the land. We also have a comparison with the election of Zelensky in the Ukraine. It's fascinating stuff, but not if you're on the receiving end of their policies.

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