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Well, personally I am guilty of calling Trump supporters trumpettes. I have not used the term orange cheeto, but I have definitely used the term cheeto jesus.
We have a great botique winery - Lake Roosevelt Wine Company. The owner actually delivers six bottles for times a year to my house. So I;m drinking a nice merlot. It is mellow. So am I.
IMHO, making fun of Trump's orange skin tone is akin to making fun of Hillary for wearing pantsuits. Calling someone a POS is another level. I don't like Hillary myself, but wouldn't consider her a POS either. If Trump being called names gets you worked up, keep in mind we've had 8 years of Odumbo, Obummer, Obama bin Laden, HUSSEIN Obama, etc....
None of it gets me worked up. The hypocritical nature of the whining does. Either public figures should get treated with respect or not. The this name is worse than that name is lame most likely being made by someone offended their politician was attacked by a forum stranger.
Might want to ease up - seems to be more than you can handle. Maybe you should switch to wine coolers.
This is how political threads became a cesspool. The solution is not to exclude legitimate posters because if they don't like it they should leave. The solution is not to ignore the trolls.
That's all this is isn't it? People complaining to the mods about an active political thread popping up? I think reality television is a pathetic dumpsterfire but you won't see me complaining to the mods about those posts. That was a good thread. What a shame.
And this was exactly my point too which is why I think "just ban the trolls" is ripe for abuse by posters who just don't want and/or like another poster on this board - just accuse them of being a troll to get them banned.
Not liking someone's position has turned them into a troll apparently and when you have moderators blatantly taking sides on an issue and taking shots at one side it's not the way to handle it.
As a general matter I don't think it's deliberate. Believe me, it's a struggle for me every day to convince myself that the pro-Trump folks aren't trolling all the time. We live in different worlds.
I can appreciate this, except from the other side of the coin. Some things seem so outrageous to me that I can't believe we are even discussing them. Ironically, that's the exact reason they should be discussed.
I would agree that @Bob Magaw seemed to be going a little bit overboard and it's probably appropriate that he reign himself in. I'd even say that he was contributing to a lower level of discourse by adding a ton of unrelated adjectives whenever he described Trump.
I thought he was doing a good job removing off-topic posts, although I can see how people would get frustrated by it. At least he wasn't outright fishing like others...
What does Bo Duke know. Just because he has a confederate flag painted in his car he's an expert now?
if you don't, I will.
Just seems pointless if it's going to be arbitrarily removed one day, without reasonable explanation, and without proper moderation. Seems kinda pointless (but i'm sure i'll get sucked in).
We can't even have a discussion about the Golden Globe Awards without it involving some sort of political discussion. We're about to begin the Presidency of the most controversial POTUS of our time. Impossible to think all political discussion can be avoided or moderated out. People just have to learn to scroll past conversations they don't like. Its not hard. In the SP, I understand. People are looking for info, stats and opinions and you don't want a thread to get bogged down in off-topic discussions. But a political thread in the FFA? Different purpose.
Exhibits 1A and 1B as to the type of posts that add nothing to a thread. Moderate/ban these types of posts.
