I assume this is all sarcasm … ? Or maybe I am just that cynical. And I’m not lying on my fainting couch over this, I just want the forum to be the best possible resource for all its readers and my viewpoint is that vigorous debate within megathreads, WITH moderation around insults etc is the best way to do this.
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Oh ok. I apologise then and appreciate the sentiments! @RiskyFlush
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It was and ty Johnny.
No worries muk. I am used to being misunderstood 
(that one was sarcasm 
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I really don’t understand where you’re coming from here. Most of us appreciate the perspective/information you bring to the table. At the same time, if someone is going to spam an active thread with dozens and dozens of posts and Twitter threads, that gets annoying. Moving the protest stuff to its own thread keeps the Biden thread readable and gives you a space to talk about the protests. What’s unreasonable about this? What am I missing?
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I’m open to moving a few back if you think some are more about Biden than about protesting and police violence, but it’s probably just academic at this point. Feel free to flag them, and one of us can take a look.
These people did receive some (admittedly poor) coverage on the local Fox affiliate last night, fwiw
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From the news reports I’ve read this just seems like anarchists taking advantage of an opportunity to wreck stuff. Seems like it would have happened regardless of who was sworn in. Also seems a bit premature to expect anything to have changed with regards to riot policing in the <100 hours Biden’s been in office. Putting loads of posts about it in the Biden thread seems fairly off topic.
Aren’t there news reports after almost every protest claiming that it was an opportunistic anarchist wreckage fest rather than people protesting kids in cages, or whatever else it was really about?
Also, the subject of the US government operating concentration camps(or whatever euphemism will be used now that Trump is gone) seems entirely on topic in a thread about the head of the government that is operating the camps.
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At the very least, I think it’s acceptable to be upset that of the fairly substantial number of things Biden elected to take efforts to change in his first 24 hrs, police violence – even when perpetrated by federal officers – was not on that list. It’s also worthy to note the disparate treatment between people who vandalize (and those in the vicinity with them) in the course of their protest to end ICE detention facilities and those who vandalize in service of overthrowing our whole democracy. It’s good posting, and posting I’m generally in agreement with. I just think that all parties are best served with that as its own ongoing megathread, because cops killing another unarmed Black man in the next year is basically a lock, and Biden is a big favorite to have a tepid response filled with cop apologia rather than holding not just individual cops but whole police departments and the whole system of policing accountable for their abuses.
Understood. I hope I live to see the day a US President has the reaction you described.
Holy shit, everyone cover your eyes or your faces will melt!
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This is not it at all. I am a big fan of PC and what he brings to the forum. However those posts weren’t landing with me as I was reading the thread and were so much as to cause me to ignore them as it was total overload for that thread.
I am more than willing to read all of it, as I view PC as a trusted and reliable source of such information. However that level of depth is not really good in a thread like that.
As a user of the site I like to be able to choose what I am getting into and all of that information PC posted was post on me being in that thread.
Being able to dedicate a time when I can provide heightened attention and focus is what I desire.
Claiming it’s just because people don’t want to hear the hard truths about Biden is ignorant.
By the way if your Schtick is going to be much kite outraged over Biden than you were Trump let me know now, as that seems like your objective.
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Well I found it informative and eye opening on a day when everyone is celebrating that nothing has actually changed.
And yes I will continue to critique Biden like I have ever since he announced he was running for president. Will you?
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Well that’s obviously wrong.
Apparently you can not edit posts during the fifteen minute timer.
I don’t think this thread needs the timer anymore. Thoughts?
I hate the timer, it makes me feel like we’re all naughty schoolchildren and have to bow down to the mods/admin.
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I really wanted to post “F R E E D O M” in 1 letter at a time for 7 posts but resisted the urge.
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