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Fluminator (1500 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
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Safe space for right wing Conservatives
This is a thread for conservatives to talk away from the judging eyes of liberal progressives.
Please come in and share your feelings. This thread is going to be our home.
Durga (3609 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
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You're not even a right wing conservative smh
Fluminator (1500 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
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I think I'm conservative at least. I like shooting guns and dislike government and stuff.
Idk
ND (879 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
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Flum, I welcome you to the conservative movement. However, how do we make sure this is our safe space? Like I already feel unsafe and I know that we are going to get brigaded by the leftys. I am scared.
Jeff Kuta (2066 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
ND, make sure you're packing heat while sitting at the keyboard. You'll feel safe again.
Fluminator (1500 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
Maybe we should have a different thread made for leftys too so everyone has a home and no one needs to encroach.
(Except for centrists but screw them)
Jeff Kuta (2066 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
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En Marche!
Fluminator (1500 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
Centrists are like agnostics. Can't pick a side and chooses the cop-out.
Jeff Kuta (2066 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side...
ND (879 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
It's great to have my own personal safe space thread!
Fluminator (1500 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
Shoot. I might identify with the libertarian safe space more. I might move to that one.
TrPrado (461 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
I feel like by not letting the Libertarians encroach you're encroaching on the rights of Libertarians.
teacon7 (306 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
@kuta

lol you should make a "safe space for ents" thread. Then we'll get the entire forum locked down for spam.
Fluminator (1500 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
I'm all about freedom > safety. Does that make me a libertarian or conservative?
teacon7 (306 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
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fwiw, this current spate of spam threads is enlightening, in that it recognizes how fractured and incapable of discussion our overall cultural narrative tends to be. Are the real live people on this forum really so polarized and incapable of speaking to one another? ("our" here probably means Americans, as I'm probably not qualified to speak to "safe spaces" in other cultures)

The whole of the public square used to be a "safe space" in one sense, because the unwritten rules of civil society (coming from a christian culture, at least nominally) recommended that everyone be afforded dignity according to their common humanity. I'm not saying that these rules were equally or fairly applied to everyone, but that was the societal understanding. The United States Bill of Rights included a protection of the natural right to free speech and the right to assembly as a formal safeguard of the same.

That worldview has undergone weaponized deconstruction by the present elite, as they found the moral code of that society repugnant and/or inexpedient. With that deconstruction also went the unwritten rules of civil society, and a general dismissal of the 1st amendment.

If I understand the word correctly, a "safe spaces" in today's sense isn't quite the same as the civil decency and free speech of yesteryear. There's a difference between saying "I shouldn't be called names or physically assaulted for holding X opinion" and saying "I shouldn't have to hear anyone dissenting to the whims or opinions that my favorite sophists have told me I like."

So thank you for the safe space. I don't want to cease hearing from people who disagree with me. If I did, I'd simply mute most of you, or go to a different site where I could find the ideology more palatable to my own personal temper tantrums. I come here because ... well, because of dip and mafia, but also because it's a public forum. In the public square you have to engage with people who hold different opinions.

When I said before that we ought to encourage good manners and civility, it means that we can and ought to hear one another out, and stop letting our own poor manners get in the way of greater understanding. If such a thing is still possible, I'm interested to hear your ideas. What constitutes civil discourse?

Fluminator (1500 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
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It's hard because the one side genuinely views the other side to be full of bad people.

Republicans view the Democrats as lazy, selfish, jobless, entitled, whiny, hypocritical, unaware, privileged people who are genuinely mean spirited most often.
Democrats view the Republicans as sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, greedy, closed-minded, arrogant and genuinely evil people most often.
I think both views are usually misguided.

I wouldn't even limit it to saying you need to listen to all viewpoints. You actually need people with multiple viewpoints to have a functioning society. It's the current Yin and Yang. I think the if you had a society with only conservatives it would result in a impersonal, hostile, every human for themselves type of society. If you had a society of only liberals, it just wouldn't work (for reasons I'm sure people in this thread already understand.)
Both views work in theory ("conservative" and "liberal") but both views suffer from the corruption of humans latching onto the respective vices that can be easily exploited in each view. You need people with the different ideologies active to hold back the vices of the opposing view so the positives of each view can be the dominant force. It's kind of like how you need competition between business to keep products desirable.

I mean, everyone rips into America and other "western" countries for being terrible and ugly, but let's be real. We're currently living in some of the best places to live in the history of the civilization. Something worked. And both sides have reasons to thank the other. I think passionate rivalry is necessary for society.

We just need to figure out how to fix the passion that turned into intense bitterness and anger, because that leads to unnecessary violence which all sides seem to agree is bad.

Also, I'm talking out of my ass kinda, but it was fun to just type something out.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
20 Jun 17 UTC
Is this the right place to post the dashcam footage of Philando Castile's murder?
CAPT Brad (40 DX)
21 Jun 17 UTC
That's what you get for hiring a minority as a police officer. Brown on black
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
21 Jun 17 UTC
..I can't..

...tell...

...if that's just...

...a really shitty joke...

...or...

...like...

...you actually...

...think that...
CAPT Brad (40 DX)
21 Jun 17 UTC
As a Hispanic, native American, white guy from a black family, who can tell? 脳 爆弾! 脳 爆弾! 脳 爆弾! 脳 爆弾!
CAPT Brad (40 DX)
21 Jun 17 UTC
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Did I mention I was roman catholic too?
SerbijaJeBosna (0 DX)
21 Jun 17 UTC
Am i the only far right?
ND (879 D)
21 Jun 17 UTC
Looks like Ossoff is going to LOSE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

This is my safe space liberals leave plz
SerbijaJeBosna (0 DX)
21 Jun 17 UTC
Not just liberals, send away the Centrists and Marxists
ghug (5068 D(B))
21 Jun 17 UTC
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Does anyone find it funny that the liberal safe space is completely unused but the conservative one is full of action?
ghug (5068 D(B))
21 Jun 17 UTC
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Bunch of snowflakes amirite
SerbijaJeBosna (0 DX)
21 Jun 17 UTC
Because Rightists always work for the greater good while centrists and socialists are Mamlaz
SerbijaJeBosna (0 DX)
21 Jun 17 UTC
They are lazy
ND (879 D)
21 Jun 17 UTC
I am a snowflake ghug, don't you know that by now?
ghug (5068 D(B))
21 Jun 17 UTC
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Well, you certainly are special...

<3
SerbijaJeBosna (0 DX)
21 Jun 17 UTC
I am going to just sit here like a good National Socialist
ND (879 D)
21 Jun 17 UTC
wait no National Socialists allowed. Go make your own safe space.
SerbijaJeBosna (0 DX)
21 Jun 17 UTC
Fine then Vidimo se momci
ghug (5068 D(B))
21 Jun 17 UTC
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Does being a good National Socialist entail checking your email?
SerbijaJeBosna (0 DX)
21 Jun 17 UTC
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I saw you paused my game
LeonWalras (865 D)
21 Jun 17 UTC
They want to see your papers
SerbijaJeBosna (0 DX)
25 Jun 17 UTC
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well Sranje I left those back in North Korea
leon1122 (190 D)
25 Jun 17 UTC
Political persecution at its finest.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
25 Jun 17 UTC
You know political persecution in some places regularly gets people jailed or executed because they disagree with a nation's leader, or results in genocide, or ends up turning into civil wars that cause massive numbers of civilian casualties and displacements, right? This doesn't quite fits that mold, let alone constitutes "persecution at its finest."
Jeff Kuta (2066 D)
25 Jun 17 UTC
Political persecution in the right wing conservative safe space?

There they go victim-claiming yet again...
TrPrado (461 D)
26 Jun 17 UTC
I can verify the mods don't persecute people they don't like. Because ghug hates me and I've never been silenced banned or even questioned since he first stepped into his role.
Fluminator (1500 D)
28 Jun 17 UTC
Guys, I just heard conservatism was the new counter-culture? Does that make us edgy?
TrPrado (461 D)
28 Jun 17 UTC
You're a libertarian.
ghug (5068 D(B))
28 Jun 17 UTC
No, he just thinks he is.
TrPrado (461 D)
28 Jun 17 UTC
Are you saying he's actually a librarian?
Fluminator (1500 D)
28 Jun 17 UTC
government sux


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Spitnaz (496 D)
27 Jun 17 UTC
Convoy question
If an army is being convoyed into territory A by a fleet in sea B and is supported into A by another unit, what happens if a fleet in Territory A is supported into Sea B?

Do they bounce because of equal force, or does the fleet from A dislodge the fleet in B before the convoy is successful?
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CAPT Brad (40 DX)
18 Jun 17 UTC
In ‘Megan Leavey,’ a Marine, Her Dog and a Bond Forged in War
i saw it today, great movie. it even gives Sen Schumer some props.
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michael_b (192 D)
27 Jun 17 UTC
New Live Game!!
Hoping to create a live game for Modern map for a change. Please join! We need 10 players!

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=201108
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wpfieps (442 D)
25 Jun 17 UTC
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A new metric
I am (humorously only) proposing a new metric for judging users via their profiles, the "Likeability Metric (LM)"
45 replies
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swordsman3003 (14058 D(G))
23 Jun 17 UTC
high-level gunboat - any interest?
I'd like to play a game with, say, folks who are in the top 50 gunboat players according to the ghostratings. Would we be able to put a game together?
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swagdaddy69 (100 D)
26 Jun 17 UTC
Live Game Tonight!
Bumping a live game full press.

Here is the game ID: http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=201073
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slypups (1889 D)
22 Jun 17 UTC
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New team-play game - PAIRS
I'm looking to set up a new team-play game on the Modern Diplomacy II map for five pairs of players to work as teams.
62 replies
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Jacob63831 (160 D)
24 Jun 17 UTC
Best song
If anyone has an even better one please post it
8 replies
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captainmeme (1632 DMod)
21 Jun 17 UTC
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British Safe Space
This is a thread for actual English-speakers to show their true colours, away from those bloody Americans.

If you happen to live on the first floor and need take a lift down to the pavement and fetch some aluminium foil from your car boot, this is the thread for you!
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Valis2501 (2850 D(G))
23 Jun 17 UTC
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Peterwiggin is in my room
what do
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Waustin (0 DX)
19 Jun 17 UTC
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A prealliance WW1 mock?
Does this sound balanced or does it need work? Obviously it doesn't require actual diplomacy but I just wanted to think about the map and how well it correlates to WW1.
15 replies
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peterwiggin (15158 D)
27 Mar 17 UTC
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Spring 2017 School of War thread
This thread is for commentary and discussion on the spring 2017 School of War Game: gameID=194759
378 replies
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brainbomb (295 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
Is the devil real?
Does anyone have evidence of the existence of the devil.
25 replies
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Jacob63831 (160 D)
21 Jun 17 UTC
Why does my leg hurt?
Can someone help me?
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bakay_ilya (100 D)
23 Jun 17 UTC
hello
hi all,I came from Russian community
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Smokey Gem (154 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
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Do any females ( real ones) play dip ?
Do any women play diplomacy at F2F events or online ??

I think not..
44 replies
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Manwe Sulimo (419 D)
14 Jun 17 UTC
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Why?
Discuss...
127 replies
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CommanderByron (801 D(S))
19 Jun 17 UTC
I hate to be that guy

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SerbijaJeBosna (0 DX)
21 Jun 17 UTC
Foreigners
Any other Non Americans here?
5 replies
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bakay_ilya (100 D)
23 Jun 17 UTC
go blitz classic
hello,boys and girls,go play blitz game
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Jeff Kuta (2066 D)
23 Jun 17 UTC
#BLM
Black or blue?

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/white-st-louis-cop-shot-black-off-duty-officer-then-claimed-it-was-a-friendly-fire-incident/
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CptMike (4384 D)
22 Jun 17 UTC
Fair play :-)
Hello guys. I just wanted to congratulate Dagabs0 for his fairplay here agreeing to reroll after a misorder of his opponent... Fairplay.

2 replies
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
21 Jun 17 UTC
Are question of morality.
Reading about anti-fa and communist resistance in Auschwitz.

Were they culpulable collavorators who didn't do enough to save the many executed? Or did they do as much as anyone could be expected to do in resisting Nazi power and surviving the camp? https://libcom.org/history/life-centurys-midnight
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Jamiet99uk (1307 D)
20 Jun 17 UTC
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Unsafe space
This is a thread for vile insults, vicious personal attacks, and hurtful, hurtful remarks of all kinds.
25 replies
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Hauta (1618 D(S))
21 Jun 17 UTC
Who is ready to take the challenge?
I'll boycott liberal media and read only right wing shit if one of y'all agree to read only left wing media. The challenge is only for a week. Anyone accept?
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Jacob63831 (160 D)
22 Jun 17 UTC
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Feature request
Why should we have to like everything

We need a dislike button
8 replies
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Ezio (1731 D)
21 Jun 17 UTC
'Murican Safe Space
We need a space where we can talk about Guns and Freedom without ridicule. Too many people on the forum are too judgmental about real 'Murican values.
5 replies
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swordsman3003 (14058 D(G))
21 Jun 17 UTC
Gunboat Solo-win plan: Germany
(A) almost always taken
(B) usually taken
(C) sometimes taken
(D) rarely taken
4 replies
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Chaqa (3971 D(B))
20 Jun 17 UTC
The Safe Space Safe Space
Where you can be safe from all these bullshit threads
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