This [captainsquartersblog.com] blog* is intelligently written, imo. PowerLine has a forum, but I haven’t perused it much. Although I am very conservative in most of my views, I get turned off when religion plays too great a role in discussions, so I tend to play here instead of on conservative forums.
I don’t know of any equivalently good conservative message boards. The above site have a lot of links to other conservative sites, perhaps perusing them will turn up some interesting boards.
*Warning, capt’s quarters doesn’t play well with Mozilla.
[Moderator Underoos On]I’m seeing far too many off-topic responses here. The OP is asking for intelligent right-leaning message boards. If you don’t know of any, don’t post here.[/Moderator Underoos On]
Originally written by Slavoj Zizek referring to the puppet regimes of Eastern Europe under the iron curtain; however I think the same principle applies to modern conservatism.
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I think this may be part of the problem:
Originally written by Slavoj Zizek referring to the puppet regimes of Eastern Europe under the iron curtain; however I think the same principle applies to modern conservatism.
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[Moderator Underoos On]No, I think the problem is that you totally disregarded post #22, where I specifically told people to cut this crap out. If you want to debate politics, get your ass over to Great Debates.
'Nuff said.[/Moderator Underoos On]
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likewise, the SDMB isn’t liberal, it contains a reasonably broad spectrum of views centred roughly around a point that is - yes - to the left of the right wing, but that’s because the centre lies in that direction.
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Sorry, amigo. It’s been left of center since I’ve been on it, and moving further left on a daily basis.
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[Moderator Underoos On]No, I think the problem is that you totally disregarded post #22, where I specifically told people to cut this crap out. If you want to debate politics, get your ass over to Great Debates.
'Nuff said.[/Moderator Underoos On]
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Thanks. I’m a conservative/libertarian and one of the reasons I rarely post is that there are so many gratuitous and dumb insults about conservatives and so little support from mods in trying to stop it. So I do appreciate your effort.
This might be a minor point but I don’t think the intent was to debate politics but rather to insult people. Maybe the Pit would be a better place to go.
Also, Quartz, my sense of this is that for some reason, the left and right have evolved somewhat differently since the Internet took off. I think that conservatives tend to read blogs and listen to talk radio more and leftists tend to go to message boards more often.
I’d suggest the following blogs:
powerlineforum.com which has a new forum attached, I haven’t seen it yet realclearpolitics.com mostly a collection of links to articles, some original stuff
and the following radio shows, available for free via itunes:
Hugh Hewitt
Dennis Miller on KNEW
Finally, I’d like to hear what you found out about polite left-wing message boards. Could you post a link? Thanks.
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Also, Quartz, my sense of this is that for some reason, the left and right have evolved somewhat differently since the Internet took off. I think that conservatives tend to read blogs and listen to talk radio more and leftists tend to go to message boards more often.
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Any guess as to why?
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I’m not sure what you mean by that. When I said “for some reason” I meant I have no idea why. I’m never very good at explaining why people have different tastes. Are you implying a specific reason? If so, I’d be interested in what you think.
Or should I not bother reading anything into it and just say “No, no idea why. But I’ll sleep on it and if I come up with a stroke of genius in the next day or so I’ll get back to you.”
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Are you implying a specific reason? If so, I’d be interested in what you think.
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I’m not. I’m not even sure it’s true that lefties go mainly to message boards and righties to blogs. You seem to be saying that’s just your anecdotal impression. I wonder who would have stats on that? But if it is true, it would be a very interesting fact, and the reason underlying it would also be interesting.
Quartz:Here is a comprehensive list of political message boards, chatrooms and blogs, with links.