How can we get timschochet to stay in his thread? (1 Viewer)

[BobbyLayne]

The election is 18 months away. This cannot stand.

I thought you made a promise, timmay?

 

[timschochet]

I made a promise to try it out. In return, other people interested in political and cultural discussions promised to engage with me in that thread. Only a couple of them have consistently kept that promise. I don't mind returning to my thread if others will join me there. But despite accusations to the contrary, I'm not in this forum to stand on a soapbox but to engage in good discussion.

 

[eoMMan]

Shock collar?

 

[comfortably numb]

We stop making new threads?

 

[fantasycurse42]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but Tim doesn't bother me...

While sometimes he does speak out of both sides of his mouth, or post an opinion without all the information, outside of volume there are lots who do the same.

If I see a long winded post of his, I'll either skim it or skip it completely.

 

[comfortably numb]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but Tim doesn't bother me...

While sometimes he does speak out of both sides of his mouth, or post an opinion without all the information, outside of volume there are lots who do the same.

If I see a long winded post of his, I'll either skim it or skip it completely.

Actually agree 100%

Fun and easy to poke at, at times but otherwise meh

 

[timschochet]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but Tim doesn't bother me...

While sometimes he does speak out of both sides of his mouth, or post an opinion without all the information, outside of volume there are lots who do the same.

If I see a long winded post of his, I'll either skim it or skip it completely.

I like you too Fantasycurse because I approve of your liberal political views and your penchant for foreign films. Actually I don't like you all that much.

 

[John Bender]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but Tim doesn't bother me...

While sometimes he does speak out of both sides of his mouth, or post an opinion without all the information, outside of volume there are lots who do the same.

If I see a long winded post of his, I'll either skim it or skip it completely.

Only 5 posts until we got the requisite "I like Tim" post this time. jfc

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but Tim doesn't bother me...

While sometimes he does speak out of both sides of his mouth, or post an opinion without all the information, outside of volume there are lots who do the same.

If I see a long winded post of his, I'll either skim it or skip it completely.

Only 5 posts until we got the requisite "I like Tim" post this time. jfc

 

[PatsWillWin]

I made a promise to try it out. In return, other people interested in political and cultural discussions promised to engage with me in that thread. Only a couple of them have consistently kept that promise.

I think this is the saddest thing I've ever read on the internet.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Tim is good people. Too bad we have a bunch of knuckle draggers constantly trolling here.

 

[sho nuff]

I made a promise to try it out. In return, other people interested in political and cultural discussions promised to engage with me in that thread. Only a couple of them have consistently kept that promise.

I think this is the saddest thing I've ever read on the internet.

Yet still less sad than those who obsess over a poster on the internet.

 

[SWC]

maybe you could put some food he really likes in there like pizza rolls and then have a bolo snare trap made out of a bent over willow sapling and then when he goes to get the pizza rolls he will step on the trap and bam it will spring on him and he will be stuck in there but be sure to cover up the loop with dead leaves or grass and make it look natural around the plate of pizza rolls llike it would be in nature take that to the bank brohans

 

[Cjw_55106]

I hate attention whores, so I think I'll start a thread shining a light on them.

 

[sbonomo]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but Tim doesn't bother me...

While sometimes he does speak out of both sides of his mouth, or post an opinion without all the information, outside of volume there are lots who do the same.

If I see a long winded post of his, I'll either skim it or skip it completely.

I agree with this.....if you don't want to engage with him, don't. Fairly easy concept here.

 

[GregR]

I have stayed away from political threads for a long while because of what they turn into. But I was interested in the one on Republican stances on immigration reform.

The people attacking Tim in there were 10x worse than Tim was, and were the ones who made it not worth reading further.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Shock collar?

Those don't always work. He might bust through a thread and then be afraid to leave.

 

[FlapJacks]

I have stayed away from political threads for a long while because of what they turn into. But I was interested in the one on Republican stances on immigration reform.

The people attacking Tim in there were 10x worse than Tim was, and were the ones who made it not worth reading further.

That started as a decent thread until Tim threw the chum into the water and #### all over it....

 

[eoMMan]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but Tim doesn't bother me...

While sometimes he does speak out of both sides of his mouth, or post an opinion without all the information, outside of volume there are lots who do the same.

If I see a long winded post of his, I'll either skim it or skip it completely.

I agree with this.....if you don't want to engage with him, don't. Fairly easy concept here.

No, it's not that simple. Look at the Bruce Jenner thread. He went back and forth with rockaction for several posts. You can choose not to engage with him but still be subjected to him.

 

[Limp Ditka]

The election is 18 months away. This cannot stand.

I thought you made a promise, timmay?

Remember that time that you called me a jerk and that I have always been one? You seem to acting like its a competition.

 

[GregR]

I have stayed away from political threads for a long while because of what they turn into. But I was interested in the one on Republican stances on immigration reform.

The people attacking Tim in there were 10x worse than Tim was, and were the ones who made it not worth reading further.

That started as a decent thread until Tim threw the chum into the water and #### all over it....

No, it started out with Tim being attacked for saying something that was common sense:

I'm not going to speak for Republicans, but the "facts" in your OP are not nearly as clear as you make them out to be. Several recent polls, including one by Gallup taken last summer, suggest that a majority of Americans are in favor of providing a path to legal status and citizenship for illegal immigrants. Other polls by Rasmussen in particular dispute this. Critics of both polls think the questioning is biased. The public's view is far from a settled issue.

What IS a settled issue is that Latino Americans, as a bloc, are strongly in favor of granting illegals legal status, strongly opposed to greater border restrictions, and willing to vote primarily based upon this issue. The GOP ignores these voters at their peril.

So overall, the polling is unsettled but politicians should pander to a particular voting bloc because they support your views on an issue. Brilliant logic as always.

His statement that the polling was unsettled wasn't challenged. But his statement that the GOP ignoring Latino voters is perilous was.

What's attack worthy about noting the importance of the Latino vote? And if it is attack worthy, why didn't the same people go after Maurile when he said the same thing?

And finally, it's very difficult to win a national election if you get slaughtered by the Hispanic vote.

It was just an immediate attack on Tim when there was nothing in his post worth attacking.

 

[Scoresman]

put him on ignore if he bugs you that much.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

I have stayed away from political threads for a long while because of what they turn into. But I was interested in the one on Republican stances on immigration reform.

The people attacking Tim in there were 10x worse than Tim was, and were the ones who made it not worth reading further.

That started as a decent thread until Tim threw the chum into the water and #### all over it....

No, it started out with Tim being attacked for saying something that was common sense:

I'm not going to speak for Republicans, but the "facts" in your OP are not nearly as clear as you make them out to be. Several recent polls, including one by Gallup taken last summer, suggest that a majority of Americans are in favor of providing a path to legal status and citizenship for illegal immigrants. Other polls by Rasmussen in particular dispute this. Critics of both polls think the questioning is biased. The public's view is far from a settled issue.

What IS a settled issue is that Latino Americans, as a bloc, are strongly in favor of granting illegals legal status, strongly opposed to greater border restrictions, and willing to vote primarily based upon this issue. The GOP ignores these voters at their peril.

So overall, the polling is unsettled but politicians should pander to a particular voting bloc because they support your views on an issue. Brilliant logic as always.

His statement that the polling was unsettled wasn't challenged. But his statement that the GOP ignoring Latino voters is perilous was.

What's attack worthy about noting the importance of the Latino vote? And if it is attack worthy, why didn't the same people go after Maurile when he said the same thing?

And finally, it's very difficult to win a national election if you get slaughtered by the Hispanic vote.

It was just an immediate attack on Tim when there was nothing in his post worth attacking.

looks like jon_mx is the problem. nothing new there.

 

[Jack White]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but Tim doesn't bother me...

He doesn't bother me, either, and that's notwithstanding the fact he referred to me as "repellent" (note the proper spelling, Doc).

In fact, I don't let anyone or anything here bother me. It's a form of entertainment.

 

[dozer]

Timbashers are pathetic.

 

[Peyton Marino]

i would take 1000 Tim threads over 1 more mc gas money thread.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

i would take 1000 Tim threads over 1 more mc gas money thread.

you don't care about the pseudo-celebrity he saw today?

 

[igbomb]

Timbashers are pathetic.

Absolutely. Far more annoying than Tim are the turds that try to push him out into his own thread. Get over yourselves.

 

[jon_mx]

I have stayed away from political threads for a long while because of what they turn into. But I was interested in the one on Republican stances on immigration reform.

The people attacking Tim in there were 10x worse than Tim was, and were the ones who made it not worth reading further.

That started as a decent thread until Tim threw the chum into the water and #### all over it....

No, it started out with Tim being attacked for saying something that was common sense:

I'm not going to speak for Republicans, but the "facts" in your OP are not nearly as clear as you make them out to be. Several recent polls, including one by Gallup taken last summer, suggest that a majority of Americans are in favor of providing a path to legal status and citizenship for illegal immigrants. Other polls by Rasmussen in particular dispute this. Critics of both polls think the questioning is biased. The public's view is far from a settled issue.

What IS a settled issue is that Latino Americans, as a bloc, are strongly in favor of granting illegals legal status, strongly opposed to greater border restrictions, and willing to vote primarily based upon this issue. The GOP ignores these voters at their peril.

So overall, the polling is unsettled but politicians should pander to a particular voting bloc because they support your views on an issue. Brilliant logic as always.

His statement that the polling was unsettled wasn't challenged. But his statement that the GOP ignoring Latino voters is perilous was.

What's attack worthy about noting the importance of the Latino vote? And if it is attack worthy, why didn't the same people go after Maurile when he said the same thing?

And finally, it's very difficult to win a national election if you get slaughtered by the Hispanic vote.

It was just an immediate attack on Tim when there was nothing in his post worth attacking.

looks like jon_mx is the problem. nothing new there.

The Latino voting block is not monolithic like the African-American voting block. Hispanics make up only about 8% of voters and the GOP usually gets about 30-40% of that vote. Tim grossly overstates the case and you seem to have your usual bias too. Nothing new there either.

 

[Peyton Marino]

i would take 1000 Tim threads over 1 more mc gas money thread.

you don't care about the pseudo-celebrity he saw today?

i do not.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

The Latino voting block is not monolithic like the African-American voting block. Hispanics make up only about 8% of voters and the GOP usually gets about 30-40% of that vote. Tim grossly overstates the case and you seem to have your usual bias too. Nothing new there either.

why not respond to Maurile's comment the same way you replied to Tim?

 

[jon_mx]

I have stayed away from political threads for a long while because of what they turn into. But I was interested in the one on Republican stances on immigration reform.

The people attacking Tim in there were 10x worse than Tim was, and were the ones who made it not worth reading further.

That started as a decent thread until Tim threw the chum into the water and #### all over it....

No, it started out with Tim being attacked for saying something that was common sense:

I'm not going to speak for Republicans, but the "facts" in your OP are not nearly as clear as you make them out to be. Several recent polls, including one by Gallup taken last summer, suggest that a majority of Americans are in favor of providing a path to legal status and citizenship for illegal immigrants. Other polls by Rasmussen in particular dispute this. Critics of both polls think the questioning is biased. The public's view is far from a settled issue.

What IS a settled issue is that Latino Americans, as a bloc, are strongly in favor of granting illegals legal status, strongly opposed to greater border restrictions, and willing to vote primarily based upon this issue. The GOP ignores these voters at their peril.

So overall, the polling is unsettled but politicians should pander to a particular voting bloc because they support your views on an issue. Brilliant logic as always.

His statement that the polling was unsettled wasn't challenged. But his statement that the GOP ignoring Latino voters is perilous was.

What's attack worthy about noting the importance of the Latino vote? And if it is attack worthy, why didn't the same people go after Maurile when he said the same thing?

And finally, it's very difficult to win a national election if you get slaughtered by the Hispanic vote.

It was just an immediate attack on Tim when there was nothing in his post worth attacking.

looks like jon_mx is the problem. nothing new there.

And I did not even post in this thread. That quote was taken from another thread and reposted here for some unknown reason. I have never told Tim to stay in his own thread. The only thing that bother me about Tim is he endlessly goes on about how horrible the rhetoric is from the right, but then he uses rhetoric that is just as bad.

 

[humpback]

Tim>Timbashers>Timbasherbashers

 

[jon_mx]

The Latino voting block is not monolithic like the African-American voting block. Hispanics make up only about 8% of voters and the GOP usually gets about 30-40% of that vote. Tim grossly overstates the case and you seem to have your usual bias too. Nothing new there either.

why not respond to Maurile's comment the same way you replied to Tim?

The Latino voting block is not monolithic like the African-American voting block. Hispanics make up only about 8% of voters and the GOP usually gets about 30-40% of that vote. Tim grossly overstates the case and you seem to have your usual bias too. Nothing new there either.

why not respond to Maurile's comment the same way you replied to Tim?

I am not sure why you are addressing me as if I am a Tim hater. I engage Tim in numerous discussions without incident. I have very little problem with Tim.

 

[Scoresman]

http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/free-tim-schochet

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

The Latino voting block is not monolithic like the African-American voting block. Hispanics make up only about 8% of voters and the GOP usually gets about 30-40% of that vote. Tim grossly overstates the case and you seem to have your usual bias too. Nothing new there either.

why not respond to Maurile's comment the same way you replied to Tim?

I am not sure why you are addressing me as if I am a Tim hater. I engage Tim in numerous discussions without incident. I have very little problem with Tim.

I was joking.

I was just going by what Greg posted. I don't read tim threads so I have no idea who likes him or hates him.

I just like having less of timthreads, and less people #####ing about tim. He doesn't bother me unless he goes back to starting many threads/day.

 

[Doug B]

I made a promise to try it out ...

Should told you detractors to pound sand. Never, ever understood the "keep it all in one thread" people.

Post what you want, where you want, when you want. Who seriously gives a rip?

 

[Doug B]

Look at the Bruce Jenner thread. He went back and forth with rockaction for several posts. .

So? Any long thread is full of this. Almost everyone who posts in contentious threads does it. So what?

 

[Scoresman]

Agree, the "keep it all in one" threads for the most part are terrible.

 

[timschochet]

I will never go back to starting a lot of threads. It was always a mistake on my part- I didn't need to start a thread every time some new idea popped into my head. I also got too lazy at times to check for Hondas. Mea Culpa. Now that I have my own thread that problem is solved. I may start a new thread from time to time but it will be a lot more rare. I think I've started 3 threads in the last 4 months.

But I will likely go back to posting more outside my own thread on subject matters that interest me. I want to engage in discussion and debate about many of these issues and that seems the way to do it. However I will never go back to posting as much as I used to in those threads, not because of the complaints of my detractors but because many of the arguments get tiresome and redundant. Also, I have noticed recently an increasing amount of intolerance and rudeness in many of these threads which didn't occur to as great an extent when I first starting posting here. A lot of people seem to have forgotten the rule of being excellent to each other, and I don't want to contribute to that.

I have no problem with jon Mx. He's good people, despite his convoluted political ideas.

 

[eoMMan]

Tim>Timbashers>Timbasherbashers

Timber by Kesha/Pitbull....yeah or may?

 

[SWC]

tim if i start a swc only thread would you post in it with me brohan we could take it to the bank together naturally like my main man lintel richie says and it would be beutiful bromigo you could post about politics and boring stuff and i could post about 75 chargers and pizza rolls and how to shingle a roof the right way bam let me know if you are in bromigo

 

[squistion]

But I will likely go back to posting more outside my own thread on subject matters that interest me. I want to engage in discussion and debate about many of these issues and that seems the way to do it.

Which is the way it should be.

 

[timschochet]

tim if i start a swc only thread would you post in it with me brohan we could take it to the bank together naturally like my main man lintel richie says and it would be beutiful bromigo you could post about politics and boring stuff and i could post about 75 chargers and pizza rolls and how to shingle a roof the right way bam let me know if you are in bromigo

Sure except I don't know about any of those things and I don't really like pizza rolls, sorry.

 

[Da Guru]

I made a promise to try it out. In return, other people interested in political and cultural discussions promised to engage with me in that thread. Only a couple of them have consistently kept that promise. I don't mind returning to my thread if others will join me there. But despite accusations to the contrary, I'm not in this forum to stand on a soapbox but to engage in good discussion.

You are averaging about 25-30 pages a month of action in your thread.

 

[jon_mx]

If we really want Tim to stick to just one thread, I would suggest starting a Hillary in Yoga Pants thread.

 

[Gawain]

The following 22 people want to see tim unchained:

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Mr. Ishida
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Jim Ten
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Alfred E. Neuman
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Todd Andrews
Joe "I'm sorry for the crusades" Bryant
Terd Berglur
Al Fabette
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David "big balls" Dodds
May Anne Naise
Willie B. Hardigan
Jim Twelve
Jim Eleven
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Joe Bryant
John Hancock

 

[Scoresman]

david big balls dodds

 

[Slapdash]

But despite accusations to the contrary, I'm not in this forum to stand on a soapbox but to engage in good discussion.

 

[timschochet]

Don't get started on Dodds. Guy recommends Rivers to me and then publicly mocks me for drafting him. Still haven't gotten over that. The nerve!