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Originally posted by TiM3LoRd
i dont think relegating a topic to its own sections takes anything away from the subject matter being discussed. If it did all those other topics that have their own forum must be lacking something, and i can assure you they are not. So from Australia i would like to say "Thanks for the free parking".
Originally posted by lucentenigma
I guess ATS is attempting to turn itself into a politically correct board while pandering to the left-leaning and politically impotent.
Originally posted by DocEmrick
Yeah I don't see where all of you are going mad, screaming censorship. All they're doing is organizing some of the ridiculous political threads into a proper forum for debate and discussion. It'd be like me being mad that my Metaphysics threads can't go in Breaking News.
Originally posted by lucentenigma
Scroll through the threads the majority of them are right leaning threads.
Bias anyone?
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
Originally posted by lucentenigma
I guess ATS is attempting to turn itself into a politically correct board while pandering to the left-leaning and politically impotent.
Another example of:
1) Someone not bothering to read what I post.
-or-
2) Someone not understanding what I write.
-or-
3) Someone seeing different words than what I typed.
I'm not going to repeatedly explain the very-simple concepts expressed in the opening post. For those who demonstrate a refusal to understand the simple concepts expressed here, we may have no choice but to consider your repeated attempts at disruption to be political trolling.
Sorry, but I'm at wit's end over the inability for some to understand what is being expressed.
Originally posted by Wimbly
Do you have amnesia? You think harsh criticism is a new thing in American politics?
Originally posted by Wimbly
Now you want to ban words? How can you guys not see the error of this line of thinking? You all should be the most conscious of it!
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Originally posted by lucentenigma
Scroll through the threads the majority of them are right leaning threads.
Bias anyone?
Might one also conclude that it is the right who is posting most of the inflammatory threads?
Originally posted by AshleyD
Just wanted to pop in really quick and chime in.
1). The forum is not an insult. Even staff, myself included, has had threads moved there. It's not meant to shame anyone or say a member's thread is nonsense.
2). It's not censorship: Just organization. Like when the swine flu story broke this spring, it was all over the board. So it was consolidated into one forum. Currently, American 'political left/right issue' threads are all over the board: Political news, current events, political issues, etc. So now they have been consolidated into one forum.
It's unfortunate that the infection has polluted the topics and tonality of discussion here on ATS... a place that, in theory, should be immune from such pedestrian diseases. In many ways it appears as though the players (viruses) perpetuating this deadly disease have infected our topics in much the same way nearly every issue is politicized in the mainstream media.
This is why we've formed the new forum, "US Political Madness," to contain the disease (as best we can) to one area of the site. Since the divisive political atmosphere is a result of this conspiratorial pestilence, all new threads covering american politics should be initiated in the new forum. The only exceptions will be straight-up news stories that cover events in US politics -- example: "Obama cabinet meets over North Korea."
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The peril is real. It is one of the most, if not the most significant conspiracies of our time. If you're engaged in partisan hate, you're a tool of the conspiracy. These discussions are now in the conspiracy forum group.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Can you tell me when did SO make a thread to imply those who were critical of Bush's policies, and making threads posting articles that were critical of Bush was a "disease and a plague"?...
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
I said we should even go further and ban words like right wing or left wing as they only serve as distractions!
Originally posted by mikerussellus
reply to post by AshleyD
That has been the best argument for this new area that I have seen yet.
Just one question. . . when does the straw in my cell get changed?
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Can you tell me when did SO make a thread to imply those who were critical of Bush's policies, and making threads posting articles that were critical of Bush was a "disease and a plague"?...
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Originally posted by lucentenigma
Scroll through the threads the majority of them are right leaning threads.
Bias anyone?
Might one also conclude that it is the right who is posting most of the inflammatory threads?
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Can you tell me when did SO make a thread to imply those who were critical of Bush's policies, and making threads posting articles that were critical of Bush was a "disease and a plague"?...
If I can answer
this left and right division was nowhere as ubiquitous it is today
Plus you do realize that SO mentioning Obama was only an example right?
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Can you tell me when did SO make a thread to imply those who were critical of Bush's policies, and making threads posting articles that were critical of Bush was a "disease and a plague"?...
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
We have allowed the sickness of petty political bickering to find a foothold and cause a widespread infection. "Deny Balance" should be the new motto, as right-blaming-left and left-blaming-right is pervasive throughout the board.
Make no mistake, you are being expertly controlled. Even here, in this venue that should be beyond the puppet masters' strings, we have succumbed to the subtle manipulations of thought and reason. Instead of looking in agner toward the puppet masters, you yell at the puppets.
ATS has fallen. We're not out, but we're mortally wounded.
It is indeed, a sad day.