That's one bullshit feature with this platform.  It's the ultimate taking your ball and going home.  Kinda selfish and cowardly.

I don't post so much here because I'm busy as hell. And I have nothing I find interesting to say these days.

Wanna hear about the trademark proposed identification of goods and services chart I spent most of the day making today?

three dogs?   

are you gonna name the dog Jeremiah?

glatt wrote:

That's one bullshit feature with this platform.  It's the ultimate taking your ball and going home.  Kinda selfish and cowardly.

I don't post so much here because I'm busy as hell. And I have nothing I find interesting to say these days.

Wanna hear about the trademark proposed identification of goods and services chart I spent most of the day making today?

 
Nah. It's bold.

Look here, this is the message you see...

Delete My Account

You have the option of removing your account from this forum. Your profile, private messages and all other information will be erased.

It's unambiguous: if you delete your account, you delete your whole investment. Most folks won't do that, can't do that.

Beestie wrote:

  But something changed and I have often tried to put my finger on it but it's elusive.

My European friends have been saying this for a long time.  In fact, I was with some when Nazis, KKK, and White Supremacists were rampaging in Virginia.  When Heather Heyer was murdered by an extremist. He was quite blunt about it then.  What has been happening to America?  It was only his latest example of increasing estrangement from reality that they had noted most of this century.

They see it happening.  But they do not see why.  Airwaves in some regions are loaded with hate and Alex Jones style disinformation.  They don't see that.  They only see what has transpired as a result.  Especially so many who are divorced from reality.

Second, so many now note that coming to America is like coming to some third world nation.  So much infrastructure is now in disarray.  Again, they do not see why.  Things such as tax cuts for the rich have meant so much of America is so badly harmed at its core that even paint cannot hide it.

America cannot even build a desperately needed train tunnel underneath the Hudson River.  And thinks nothing about poisoning the water for the entire city of Flint.  But has no problem cutting taxes to corporations that we once paying less than 20%.  (GE paid nothing.)

They see results of what America was doing 20 years ago.  Even most all cars built in America are now built for and by companies from foreign nations.  As a result, people are angry and ignorant.  Europeans, et al have been observing this change maybe because they are not constantly here.  And slowly becoming used to the decay in both social responsibility and disinformation.

Cellar reflects what they saw for the past 20 years.

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Undertoad wrote:

A quiet peaceful forum is a dead forum.

I see what you meant about missing subtle humor when you used to request no jokes during moderator nomination.

That said, yes you have a point, but it is not necessary to open a vein with a rusty nail to check you are alive.  Noboxes was getting uncharacteristically unpleasant which is why I stopped reading his posts altogether (and hence didn't notice his evaporation).  I hope this complete break means he decided that was a healthy move for him, I doubt very much it was for our benefit (or to punish us).  He knows how to come back if he chooses to.  It's not like noboxes was his first cellar ID.   Actually, do we know if he speaks Russian?
 

 "Noboxes was getting uncharacteristically unpleasant..."
I started paying closer attention to him after being blindsided by one of his gratuitous personal attacks several years ago.
I can't remember finding much pleasantness.

tw wrote:

Flint wrote:

  It's impossible for them to talk to anyone who has different opinions-- not the other way around.

Do you mean they cannot tell someone something?  Or they cannot hear what someone else says? (Or both?)  I don't grasp the point.

Flint wrote:

  The problem isn't "Cancel Culture"--it's crybaby culture.  

What is a crybaby culture?  Is what follows suppose to explain that concept?  If so, again I don't grasp the point.

 

I mean that Conservatives are pushing the narrative that free speech is under attack, because--they say-- liberals will only tolerate certain prescribed opinions, liberals will retaliate against people for simply disagreeing about something, and because there is an over-arching superstructure in our culture that pushes down the approved list of opinions (as opposed to new ideas occurring naturally in normal people).

Because of this--they say-- it's unfair that people disagree with them, they're being attacked when people voice a disagreement. Because of this--they say-- there is no venue for them to speak, they are outcasts of society. And because of this they choose not to participate in the marketplace of ideas. They choose to rage-quit a message board because they're not getting enough positive feedback. In fact, they want a participation trophy for repeating their dumb opinions that they heard on TV-- on the highest rated cable news network, in countless editorials in the most reputable newspapers, in a never-ending stream of best-selling books!

In fact, "I'm being silenced" is a marketing campaign for low-talent hacks and know-nothing politicians. And the poor suckers who've bought that pitch --hook, line, and sinker-- are throwing temper tantrums on the floor, crying about how mean and unfair the world is treating them. That's what I mean by crybaby culture. The bullies and strong-arms of the world are mad because they're not winning a popularity contest. So they are giving up on free speech-- not the other way around, as they claim.
 

Last edited by Flint (3/05/2021 9:23 pm)

Undertoad wrote:

A quiet peaceful forum is a dead forum. That's what you've wished for, and that's what you shall have.

Well, so much for that.

Undertoad wrote:

Yes

Sexobon spent over a decade of time with you all, over 10,000 posts, one of about 20 people to make the transition and stick with it;

And the bottom line after all that time and dedication was: thank god that guy is finally gone.

What a sad, even horrible mistake he made, wanting to be with you all for that long. I'm not going to even risk being or becoming that guy 

He spent 10 years popping balloons and stirring shit which is what he enjoyed, no harm no foul, helped keep things moving and brought a lot of information.
When he leaves two people expressed pleasure and you have decided everyone is guilty of a hate crime?
Has anyone ever left any forum that no one was happy they left?
A lot of people have left that I usually disagreed with, along with a lot I usually agreed with, but never wished anyone would leave...

except tw.

Just kidding. LoL

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

except tw.

So much respect!  He did not misspell my name.
 

Apparently this is the stuff I'm missing on Facebook.

*strains arm patting self on back*