Have to laugh at leon implying white privilege doesnt exist and that my thread was racism. Thats a bnew republican spin zone: its racist if it calls it what it is.

Ahhh, old man Chaqa reminiscing on the good ol days.

I'm honored to be mentioned alongside Putin and CM (and more importantly, opposite the puke of the forum), but I really don't think a whole lot about what Putin, CM, and myself did on the forum has changed. If Putin wanted to be here and say that invading Ukraine was not an invasion of a sovereign nation, he could still do that. If CM wanted to ask why the nth girl of the month does or does not like him and how he should deal with it, he could still do that. If I wanted to post random articles about nothing important that the rest of you didn't really care about in a meaningless quest for approval, I could still do that. It doesn't happen anymore because Putin and CM have moved on to greener pastures and I ... well, I'm still here, being stupid and annoying like always.

The "wild personalities" you mention are a *little bit* too wild and made a constant show out of using the anonymity of a computer screen to let a bunch of vile, psychotic thoughts that they could never get away with in their regular lives. They weren't even banned exclusively because of their intolerable forum presence either, but really - do you know how many times Holocaust jokes are funny? How about how many times you have to be threatened by some douchebag claiming to have a regimen of US Marines at his command whenever he wants? Uh, none. You can interact with strangers on the internet without feeling like you have to flex muscle we all know you don't have. None of that was playful badgering. It was just dumb and if I hadn't loved playing Diplomacy so much that I played 400 games in a year and a half before I ever really interacted with the forum at all, it would have scared me away too.

Some of you don't get the whole "welcoming home page" thing, and that's cool, we can talk about how that helps or hurts us all day long, but ever since the laissez-faire days of 2012, that's the direction that we've been moving. We have 80,000 registered users and I see no reason why we couldn't strive for 80,000 more. We get new users from across the planet in school groups, social clubs, or just looking for a site that interests them, and "wild personalities" is not a helpful recruiting tool. People don't stay on a site or even interact with a forum that looks more like the mind of a serial killer on bath salts than a place of civil discourse among a bunch of strangers who might have some "wild" tendencies care about the future of their site enough that they're willing to internalize thoughts that they know they shouldn't share.

Its racist now to claim people are being racist. Lol

I got called a racist once because I preferred dark beer over light.

Beer --meat. Whatever

brainbomb, I said it's "an extremely contentious issue that has a history of getting quite heated", which TrPrado says warrants locking a thread.

"Have to laugh at leon implying white privilege doesnt exist and that my thread was racism."

-It doesn't exist. It's an imaginary phrase invented by cultural marxists to divide people.

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Any scholarly sources to support that ND? Any wage numbers or maternity leave facts to support that?

bo_sux, there was nothing wild or psychotic about krellin's thread.

Sure, when I have time I would be happy to send you some material.

brainbomb, what does maternity leave have to do with "white privilege"?

As for wages, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/asian-american-men-earn-more-than-white-men-income-inequality-gender-gap/

Leon, I'm not commenting on krellin's thread. I was referring specifically to the people who Chaqa needlessly romanticized.

Nah id rather you say it publicly ND. Especially coming from a guy who is anti-abortion and has an Al Swearengen belief about womens right to vote.

Huh? What the heck are you talking about? Sure, I'll post some stuff about it later.

*by the way* this is rules for radicals right here. Brainbomb is trying to isolate and demonize me simply because I have a different view point then him.

Quick, someone release SoloQ

I say we kill him.

this is a common tactic lately with krellin, leon and ND. anytime they are completely wrong about an issue they try to characterize this website as being left washing, and stifling free thinking. They espouse Trump beleifs that women are trash, and think that we are the problem for arguing against such rhetoric. This is an example of deflection. As I said, leon, Krellin and ND are not just Trump supporters, THEY ARE Trump embodiments.

bombastic race baiting, women hating scum of the earth.

When did I ever say women are trash? What the heck are you talking about? I think you are just making things up.

As to your other point, "white privilege" is an exclusionary, academic, term that has absolutely zero basis in reality. I will provide some links to show that this term is utterly false and I will debunk it.

"They espouse Trump beleifs that women are trash"

Never did that nor did they.

"and think that we are the problem for arguing against such rhetoric"

locking threads is not arguing.

ah, not 'exclusionary' I meant illusionary.

Bo, your answer doesn't address my concerns at all. Sites can be corpses with millions of "members". Just look at MySpace. What matters is active users, number of comments, number of threads, etc. and you're skirting the issue.

You were not a mod during the Great Forum Revolt. If my memory serves me right, none of the current team was. You inherited the nanny state rules that jmo, ATC and TMOW pushed for, over protests from some of the other mods. I know exactly what types of people these were. You didn't have to talk down Draug or krellin or maple from their threats. But I know the forum was a more active and lively place back then. The backlash and hate that happened then was more a result of the mods trying to impose limits than anything else. When I joined in 2010 there were no such blowups. My hypothesis is that the bannings and neutering of the forum in 2012 were the "peak" of our active userbase, and caused its decline. As such, I think this is an issue that needs to be addressed.

Slavery in the US didn't mean white privilege either, that was just economics ok?

"I think you are just making things up."

For such a strong statement as I claim you think women are trash this is an incredibly passive answer. If someone accused me of hating women I would be able to easily squash that argument in a heartbeat. You "think" I am making stuff up??

How long is it gonna take you to post these alleged scholarly links proving white privilege is just some marxist falsehood? I could show you a billion and one statistics crushing that bullshit into the dirt. Even in my own profession more women pursue Art degrees than men, and yet less women have major exhibitions, and less women work in Art Academia despite a nearly 70-30% differential. AND THATS THE ARTS!? Its even worse in other professions. This is not a myth. White-Male-Privilege doesnt just exclude African Americans and Hispanics. It also hurts women too

and leon, im sorry but broadcasting on the forum how hes been grabbing his wifes ass in front of the kids is pretty low. Do you really think his wife wants him talking about that shit to strangers on the internet to score political points? Do you think his daughters want him talking about their relationships and how "hot" they are just to prove a point about why Trump is a good guy?

Yeah i'll post it later.

Anyway, I never said the things you said I said. This is a forum. If you make a claim then support it. QUOTE ME. Quote the thread and me for any of these claims you are making.

You are being uncivil and displaying signs of a compulsive liar.

I wouldn't believe anything that Brainbomb is saying since he is clearly insane. Just making up things and attributing them to me when I never said them. It's either him projecting his private viewpoints onto me, him lying, or he has some deep rooted issues. Not sure which.

the above comments are about krellin. ND.

I was under the impression you are against abortion yes?

Ah okay. I am personally against it, but I don't think the laws should be altered.