[Topgun]

By the way guys, you can just put Mobius on your forum ignore list until he stops posting in that font - I've had him and a few other users on ignore for a while now and it makes HLP a lot more enjoyable.

Put them on your ignore lists and you won't see their posts any more.

But then how else can we correct him when he's wrong?

[karajorma]

Why don't the admins just disable the [color] tags?

Cause some people aren't idiots and use them responsibly. For instance the only time I use them is when I've had to edit someone else's post (to remove a link or something) in which case I want to state exactly what I did and why in a way that can't be mistaken for the original users point of view.


As for the current subject of the debate. I actually agree with Mobius. It's all very well talking about disenfranchisement of minorities but the simple fact is that is exactly what is happening now. People with poor knowledge of politics are prevented from actually expressing a sensible view on the subject because they are easily influenced.

And I'm not having a go at just Republicans here. There were a whole bunch of incredibly stupid reasons people voted for Obama too. 

[Topgun]

I agree with the statements in the above post.

[Mobius]

By the way guys, you can just put Mobius on your forum ignore list until he stops posting in that font - I've had him and a few other users on ignore for a while now and it makes HLP a lot more enjoyable.

Put them on your ignore lists and you won't see their posts any more.

That's so nice. Especially the part about HLP being more enjoyable.

[SypheDMar]

For two summers, I've been at something akin to a Model UN except instead of the UN, it's the US. Although most of the city at least should be at least somewhat open-minded, remember that there are folks in the rurals where their Presidential opdium is a noose hung for Obama and the grandparents are members of Nazis and KKK. I'm not kidding.

Of course, that's an extreme case. Still, there is a lot of rural area that only votes for Republicans because they're seemingly conservative and anti-socialist.

[Liberator]

For two summers, I've been at something akin to a Model UN except instead of the UN, it's the US. Although most of the city at least should be at least somewhat open-minded, remember that there are folks in the rurals where their Presidential opdium is a noose hung for Obama and the grandparents are members of Nazis and KKK. I'm not kidding.

I'll tell you right now that this is very rare.  Certainly less than 1/1,000,000 and likley 1/10,000,000.  This is a veiled attempt to label conservatism as being related to Nazism and the Klan.

[Mars]

For two summers, I've been at something akin to a Model UN except instead of the UN, it's the US. Although most of the city at least should be at least somewhat open-minded, remember that there are folks in the rurals where their Presidential opdium is a noose hung for Obama and the grandparents are members of Nazis and KKK. I'm not kidding.

I'll tell you right now that this is very rare.  Certainly less than 1/1,000,000 and likley 1/10,000,000.  This is a veiled attempt to label conservatism as being related to Nazism and the Klan.

More than 1 in a million people have ancestors who were KKK. I know for a fact that I have an ancestor who was a slave trader for instance.

Also, conservatism not widthstanding, there are some seriously racist people, some very dangerous people, in certain rural areas. There are more than 400 of them.

[iamzack]

For two summers, I've been at something akin to a Model UN except instead of the UN, it's the US. Although most of the city at least should be at least somewhat open-minded, remember that there are folks in the rurals where their Presidential opdium is a noose hung for Obama and the grandparents are members of Nazis and KKK. I'm not kidding.

I'll tell you right now that this is very rare.  Certainly less than 1/1,000,000 and likley 1/10,000,000.  This is a veiled attempt to label conservatism as being related to Nazism and the Klan.

not nearly as rare as you think

[Mars]

In Colorado we had a demonstration by the KKK that included more members at once then Liberator's statistics say live in the United States.

[karajorma]

I'll tell you right now that this is very rare.  Certainly less than 1/1,000,000 and likley 1/10,000,000.  This is a veiled attempt to label conservatism as being related to Nazism and the Klan.

Explain where you got those figures from or get banned from Gen Disc.

I've warned you about **** and run posting before on this very thread. You're either going to defend your opinion or find yourself unable to continue making them here.

[Nuclear1]

For two summers, I've been at something akin to a Model UN except instead of the UN, it's the US. Although most of the city at least should be at least somewhat open-minded, remember that there are folks in the rurals where their Presidential opdium is a noose hung for Obama and the grandparents are members of Nazis and KKK. I'm not kidding.

I'll tell you right now that this is very rare.  Certainly less than 1/1,000,000 and likley 1/10,000,000.  This is a veiled attempt to label conservatism as being related to Nazism and the Klan.

Dude, have you BEEN to a Tea Party rally or a Second Amendment rally in the past two years?!

[MP-Ryan]

I'll tell you right now that this is very rare.  Certainly less than 1/1,000,000 and likley 1/10,000,000.  This is a veiled attempt to label conservatism as being related to Nazism and the Klan.

Explain where you got those figures from or get banned from Gen Disc.

Thank you, kara.  I was just going to call him out on lack of source.

[General Battuta]

He didn't even bother to do basic math on the population of the US before pulling those figures out of his ass.

[Nuke]

the extreme right likes to call the left hippies, tree huggers and communists
the extreme left likes to call the right racists, homophobes and nazis
i call both extremes douchebags, assholes, and ****s

extremism is bad. we have seen what happens when extremists win absolute power over a government, you get rulers like hitler and stalin calling the shots. of course there will always be extremists. and the cool thing about america is that we let our extremists fight and they essentially cancel each other out. though its sad that the media often focuses on the extremes and gives you a vary narrow picture of the rest of politics.

[karajorma]

Meanwhile the middle gets away with murder cause everyone is too busy with the floorshow to notice they aren't even getting bread and circuses.

[Grizzly]

Meanwhile the middle gets away with murder cause everyone is too busy with the floorshow to notice they aren't even getting bread and circuses.

Or the help they deserve to get after some extremists blew up a few towers.

[Liberator]

Meanwhile the berserk crazy zealots gets away with murder cause everyone is too busy with the floorshow to notice they aren't even getting bread and circuses.

There I fixed it for you.  The middle by definition doesn't care.

As a side note, I don't like not being able to change the color of text any more and are we gonna get the old theme back?

[General Battuta]

man maybe those threads right at the top of the announcements forum could tell you!

and yeah, of course moderates by definition don't care, because 'moderate' means 'don't pay attention and have no strong feelings' right because only extremists have feelings whereas the vast portion of the country that identifies as independent/moderate has no

wait

everything you say is wrong or a downright evil lie like 'the middle by definition doesn't care'

maybe it would be good if this country followed the policies of the moderates that make up most of its population because it's some kind of 'dem ok rass ee'

[Nuke]

extremists will always be a minority and will always exist. but for some reason they are the one that everyone listens to, they get all the camera time. their policies are more interesting than the middle ground, because lets face it, sanity is boring.

[General Battuta]

I'll tell you right now that this is very rare.  Certainly less than 1/1,000,000 and likley 1/10,000,000.  This is a veiled attempt to label conservatism as being related to Nazism and the Klan.

Explain where you got those figures from or get banned from Gen Disc.

I've warned you about **** and run posting before on this very thread. You're either going to defend your opinion or find yourself unable to continue making them here.

oh and are we going to follow up on this