"Respect and civility for all."

[Sunny_Daze]

I’m not sure how we ended up talking DH, but I’m agin it. Also, go Dodgers.

[Guinastasia]

Raise the jolly roger!!!

[postpic200]

@John_DiFool

I’ve about had it. Note the much-rumored but probably nonexistent forum for Pitting Moderators isn’t open for business at the moment (checks again…durn it), so this goes here.

Ok. Fine. So the new watchwords are “respect” and “civility.”

How many fucking times have we seen this play out? An alt-righter says something provocative/stupid/trolling/broken recordish, someone else calls them out on it, yet it is only the latter who get the notes and warnings?

Now. How TF is long-term trolling showing any sort of “respect and civility for all”? Because that’s what we have here. A cadre of mindless Trumpian bozos who continue to trot out their moronic, false, and endlessly repetitive horseshit.

But this thread isn’t about them. It’s about their enablers in the mod loop.

In case TPTB here have yet to figure it out, WE ARE NOW AT WAR WITH A HOSTILE NATION. One which PAYS mindless assholes like the ones infesting this site to troll message boards with their disruptive dogcrap, over and over and over and over and over, for the sole purpose of destablizing our nation and our society. And hey they have almost pulled it off. Partially because people have coddled their worthless asses, both here and elsewhere, for far too long.

Our mods here will constantly overlook the giant shit one of them just left on the sidewalk, and will instead throw the full weight of the book at the gumchewers who toss a small sticky one out there. All because they managed to somehow evade the precise “letter” of the rules.

I’ve almost left this board several times over this crap in the past year, after witnessing endless trolling like in the above thread that only rarely gets any actual substantive action. Fuck, we only recently saw one long-term troll, who openly admitted same, hang around far far past his sell-by date before the banhammer finally fell on his worthless ass. Well, what in the fuck were you waiting for?!?

I am one more incident like the above away from buggering off for good. You really need to dump the entire lot out the back door, and not get into this “Welp, I cannot mind-read the bastard to see if he is truly sincere or not, so I guess he stays.” This curious notion that we have to direct a mind-scanning ray at someone to divine their true mindset before they finally get shit-canned is utterly preposterous. BY DEFINITION these kinds of people are NOT the least bit interested in your quaint notions of “respect” and “civility”, no matter how often they may evade your little dragnet (with its gaping holes).

Either they go, or I (and a lot of other Dopers, many of which are already splitsville) go. Simple as that.

Many on the right would say the same thing about people on the left. I find it funny that under the banner of “Respect and civility for all.” You’re dropping an F bomb, calling at least some Trump supporters bozos and stating they “….trot out their moronic, false, and endlessly repetitive horseshit.” Just how is that civil? When you consider that almost 62 million people voted for him (almost 66 million for Clinton) Also, how many is some, almost half, less more? Yes, I voted for Trump, that doesn’t mean I support all his actions, just like I didn’t toss all of Obama’s ideas aside just because Obama suggested them. Personally, I want to hear what the other side has to say, I might not agree with them but I want to know what they have to say.

There are two ways to deal with trolls, one is to ignore them ie don’t feed the trolls, they want to stir up trouble and get a reaction out of you, which appear they have successfully done with you. Or hit them with fact after fact, while the troll may think they got a reaction out of you, you successfully defused them by show the readers of the thread how unintelligent their post is while scoring point for your argument.

I also find it interesting that you are willing to surrender while at the same time saying “…., WE ARE NOW AT WAR WITH A HOSTILE NATION. “ What hostile nation? I can think of several nations off the top of my head, or do you mean left vs right?

Here’s two things to think about, given that Trump supporters generally fell into the 40+ range, that means at least some of his supports were hippies or grew up in that era back in the 1960’s and early 70’s. And odd are that today JFK, given his stance on the issues including abortion, taxes, trade, etc, couldn’t win the Democrat nomination and he probably would have been considered a Republican by the Democrats of today.

[DSeid]

@postpic200

… given that Trump supporters generally fell into the 40+ range, that means at least some of his supports were hippies or grew up in that era back in the 1960’s and early 70’s. And odd are that today JFK, given his stance on the issues including abortion, taxes, trade, etc, couldn’t win the Democrat nomination and he probably would have been considered a Republican by the Democrats of today.

As to being hippies, well for certain very small values of “some” maybe. Grew up then? Well duh. But really only a small fraction of young adults of the '60s and early '70s actively participated in “the counter culture”. There were conservative youth, especially in the same rural areas that represent Trump’s strength today, and in 1969 only 35% of the leading edge of the Boomers identified as Democrats.

Of course some of those who at least identified as Democrats then have shifted to the more conservative side with age but of the much smaller group who were actually active counterculture participants? Facts not in evidence.

Kennedy?

Stated: “Can we do more, should we know more about the whole reproduction cycle, and should this information be made more available to the world so that everyone can make their own judgment, I would think that it would be a matter which we could certainly support.” That is really the closest we’ve got as to his political position on choice. Choice was just not an issue then. That he was personally against abortion is immaterial. Many who support and have supported choice are.

Civil Rights? He was placed pretty firm in the support camp. True his take was to go a bit slower but he did take a big political chance in the South in calling Coretta King when MLK was in jail just before the election and did get the Civil Rights Act of 1963 passed. In the time this how that was played:

@1963 The New Republic

The President’s new objective is stated in the proposed Omnibus Act, which declares that discrimination “is incompatible with the concepts of liberty to which the Government of the United States is dedicated.” The Act understands discrimination to be not merely deprivation of rights, but also of “privileges accorded to other citizens.” And, perhaps most notably, it aims to eradicate not merely deprivations, but also “inconveniences, humiliations, and hardships,” to the end that we may achieve “the fullest development of the capabilities of the whole citizenry,” and unlimited “participation in the economic, political, and cultural life of the Nation.” The rest of the bill goes into detail, with almost no holds barred.

This is the new commitment.

I think that would play today. You think his being against quotas would disqualify him? Many Democrats of today support affirmative action but few call for quotas.

International affairs? The idea of winning the hearts and minds by good works in service that was created by college kids was something he embraced and fast tracked int reality. I don’t think either HRC (in particular) or Obama were any less strong in the belief that military engagement was sometimes required and the knowledge held by others that we had the strength and the willingness to use it was an important part of not needing to use it.

Taxes … not sure. He felt tax rates were too high. But at that time the top bracket then (≥ $400K married filing jointly) was paying a marginal rate of 91% (!) and even a married couple filing jointly who made less than $4000 a year paid 20%. I think a Democrat could argue against those rates as too high and do well in a primary.

Trade? I think a Democrat today saying, as Kennedy did as he signed H.R. 11970, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962

@JFK

we cannot protect our economy by stagnating behind tariff walls

would do well. Yes, populist movements on both sides of the aisle have railed against trade agreements, but Democrats who have won the office have always been for good trade agreements recognizing, as Kennedy did, that our economy requires trade to grow and that a strong economy across the world with countries interconnected is the best “counter” to the threats we all face.

He was an NRA member but the NRA was a completely different critter back then, more of a sportsman’s club. There is plenty of room in the party for those who believe what the NRA of the '60s advocated. Back then the NRA was for some gun control in balance with rights … it wasn’t until the mid '70s that the NRA became the no slippery slope no compromise organization it is today.

Hmmm. A GOP candidate right now calling for the release of a … make it a BLM leader today … calling attention to civil rights and demanding not only an end to discrimination but to “the fullest development of the capabilities” of all … promoting the Peace Corps as a means of having international influence … being against protectionist tariffs … for some reasonable gun control that recognized the individual right to bear arms comes with responsibility as well and who’d agree with Reagan when he said “There’s no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.”? He’d not be considered even a RINO today. A Kennedy would be in the tent of Democrats with some agreeing and some not. He’d be way off the reservation in today’s Trumpian GOP.

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@kunilou

Will this be the first thread ever moved from ATMB to The Game Room?

This thread seems to want to jump to lots of different forums other than ATMB.

I’m going to take that as a sign that the original topic has run its course. It’s probably best to close it now before it veers off in yet another direction.