# What happened to the SDMB?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 18, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170 "2018-07-18T21:49:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/61 "2018-07-19T01:58:51Z")

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> [@anomalous1](#):
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> I started this post in earnest, genuinely curious

Uh huh, and I have some beautiful oceanfront property for sale in Saskatchewan too.

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**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/62 "2018-07-19T02:09:55Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Take a look at what Trump has done. While he’s done a lot of shit, let’s just take one: the child concentration camps. He separated children from their parents at the border and put them in underfunded camps–as a fucking negotiating tactic.
> 
> If you still support Trump after that, then you deserve to be treated like garbage. If your bullshit about maybe doing better financially under Trump matters more to you than those children, then you get my first “FUCK YOU”.

Detention Centers. Not “Concentration camps” which have another much more prominent association.

They are not used as a negotiation tactic. Stop watching MSNBC.

First purpose is to stop illegal aliens from crossing the border. This is 100% legal to do.  
Second purpose is to establish relationship between children and parents due to sex traffickers and using children as drug mules and being able to question them separately.

The conditions are in no way like a concentration camp. Knock this hyberbolic shit off.

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**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/63 "2018-07-19T02:10:39Z")

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> [@anomalous1](#):
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> I started this post in earnest, genuinely curious,

In the Pit? Sure you did.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/64 "2018-07-19T02:26:27Z")

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I wish there was a little more activity on this board - there used to be some very interesting discussions. I always complain about this shit as if anyone gives two fucks about what I think. Not like anyone should give a shit what I think, usually I don’t even care what I think, but I want to be entertained, or stimulated or some combination of the two; the steady exodus of once regular posters makes it harder to do. And you should keep in mind many of the posters appreciate the conservatives on the board if they can provide good content; even if they disagree with it.

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**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/65 "2018-07-19T02:31:23Z")

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> [@Tamerlane](#):
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> In the Pit? Sure you did.

I actually did, I knew the way I was phrasing it would be viewed as inflammatory and it would likely wind up here anyway.

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**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/66 "2018-07-19T02:34:49Z")

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> [@Mr.Nylock](#):
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> I wish there was a little more activity on this board - **there used to be some very interesting discussions**. I always complain about this shit as if anyone gives two fucks about what I think. Not like anyone should give a shit what I think, usually I don’t even care what I think, but I want to be entertained, or stimulated or some combination of the two; the steady exodus of once regular posters makes it harder to do. And you should keep in mind many of the posters appreciate the conservatives on the board if they can provide good content; even if they disagree with it.

I agree. Stuff just seems kind of bland and more political oriented than anything else. Probably just me though. I even miss the “who would win in a fight an M1 abrams tank or a dragon” type stuff.

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**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/67 "2018-07-19T02:35:44Z")

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> [@anomalous1](#):
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> Seriously concerned.
> 
> All I’ve seen lately are posts akin to these;
> 
> 1.) Russia is to blame for everything!  
> 2.)White people are to blame for all that goes wrong in society and everything is racist.  
> 3.)Anyone who voted for Trump has a moral and intelligence deficiency because “we are the unequivocal elite standard of morality and intelligence”.  
> 4.)Ignoring crime statistics and therefore inconvenient facts.  
> 5.)Police are agents of evil. + The justifying of breaking laws.
> 
> Even GQ has a deficiency of in-depth topics lately.
> 
> Thoughts?  
> Inevitable insults?
> 
> What gives? Isn’t there anything else to talk about these days or has it dried up?

You joined in 2017.

You have no fucking clue what happened to SDMB.

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**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/68 "2018-07-19T02:42:56Z")

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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Great…now I’m all hungry again. Thanks a LOT.

As long as people are talking about pan-fried semen, the spirit of the SDMB will never die.

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**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/69 "2018-07-19T02:47:14Z")

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> [@anomalous1](#):
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> Alright moron, I’ll bite.
> 
> 1. Nitpicks over grammar and spelling mistakes? Grow up. The president we share (yes, it is your president too) is plenty qualified, maybe not in your perception where you would like someone kissing every other country’s leader between the ass cheeks like your beloved demigods Hillary and Obama. He may not be likable to many but that is the allure, to have someone who isn’t going to be a big fat sloppy coward lead the country, arrogance goes far in this respect. Keeping other nations on their toes and intimidated by perceived unpredictable behavior is a wonderful thing. All about perspective. The only ass kissing he has done so far t is with Russia but there are many benefits to potentially be made, especially with military. Enough with your Russian conspiracy theories, you lost so stop being a big fuckin baby about it.
> 
> 2. Being right wing is about preserving the way the country was intended to be principled and run. Not attempts at shredding the constitution on emotional whims. No instead fuckheads like yourself and many others want to emulate other countries experiments with socialist agendas which time and time again have failed or are failing currently. What’s one more try right?
> 
> 3&4. I do not worship guns, and I do not hate government you idiot. I love government only so much as they protect the rights guaranteed to us. If they attempt or even get an idea to change or dismantle these guarantees, I get suspicious. As should you if you were not a moron. Certain protections are fantastic as long as the price isn’t too big and overreach isn’t occurring. Too much government is for people who cannot control their own lives and need somebody to hold their fuckin hand through everything, like yourself. If you don’t like gun ownership, leave. It is here to stay and it always will, it is part of american culture and a guaranteed right. You will not get rid of them and shit on the rights of the majority to benefit a minority and punish everyone because some shithead goes on a rampage.
> 
> If you don’t like the way things are here, leave… you will not be missed I promise.

Wait a second, you fucking brainless, drooling shitstain. I thought _you_ were the one who didn’t like it here. Feel free to get the fuck out and back to Breitbart or whatever fucking rock you crawled out from under, asshole. Feel free to take octopus with you. You can go off and suck Putin’s cock together and have a jolly old time.

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**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/70 "2018-07-19T03:33:12Z")

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> [@asahi](#):
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> You joined in 2017.
> 
> You have no fucking clue what happened to SDMB.

Lurker for many years before joining, try reading the above posts.

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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/71 "2018-07-19T03:38:50Z")

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> [@anomalous1](#):
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> Detention Centers. Not “Concentration camps” which have another much more prominent association.
> 
> They are not used as a negotiation tactic. Stop watching MSNBC.
> 
> First purpose is to stop illegal aliens from crossing the border. This is 100% legal to do.  
> Second purpose is to establish relationship between children and parents due to sex traffickers and using children as drug mules and being able to question them separately.
> 
> The conditions are in no way like a concentration camp. Knock this hyberbolic shit off.

> **[Trump suggests separation of families at border is a negotiating tool | CNN...](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/16/politics/trump-separation-families-negotiating-tool/index.html)**
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> President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that he is using his administration’s separation of families at the US border as a negotiating tool to get Democrats to cave on his immigration demands, which include funding for a border wall, curbing legal...

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> President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that he is using his administration’s separation of families at the US border as a negotiating tool to get Democrats to cave on his immigration demands, which include funding for a border wall, curbing legal immigration into the US, and tightening the rules for border enforcement.
> 
> Trump again falsely blamed Democrats for his administration’s actions, and said they could put a stop to the family separations by working with Republicans in Congress.

As for separating families being 100% legal. That is a no too:

[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/judge-to-weigh-new-rules-for-u-s-reuniting-of-migrant-families-idUSKBN1K31A7](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/judge-to-weigh-new-rules-for-u-s-reuniting-of-migrant-families-idUSKBN1K31A7)

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**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/72 "2018-07-19T03:46:43Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> This is a board about fighting ignorance. The right wing of our country has embraced anti-intellectualism as one of its tenants. It is no wonder that this board contains few conservatives. The ones that do survive are either the rare intelligent ones that reject the anti-intellectualism, or only here to try and piss liberals off.
> 
> Oh, and octopus, when you flip out every time someone tells you you are wrong, you really can’t argue about wanting to learn from people with different opinions. I cannot cite a single instance of you changing your mind, meaning you aren’t here to learn. Sorry.

That’s because I don’t usually post to just say “I agree!”

So when you see me post it’s where I disagree, typically. So how about you don’t tell me what my motivations are?

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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/73 "2018-07-19T03:48:14Z")

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> [@anomalous1](#):
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> 1. Nitpicks over grammar and spelling mistakes?

Not at all, my dear fellow. With regard to revealing you to be a witless imbecile, you’ve done a fine job of that all by yourself with your fascinating political opinions, and need no help from me. The grammar nitpicks were just the kind of the thing some of us enjoy doing only semi-seriously, but if it helps to more firmly establish you as a feebleminded halfwit, the little digression was no doubt worthwhile.

> [@anomalous1](#):
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> The president we share (yes, it is your president too) is plenty qualified …

Well, no, he’s not my president. If you were not so hard of comprehension, that should have been clear from the context of some of my remarks here, even if you’ve never seen any of my other posts. As for “plenty qualified”, here we have an outstanding example of both the expressive language and the political judgment that you’re so renowned for around here. He might be “plenty qualified” to preside over a beauty contest of prospective mail-order wives, but I think it’s now been well established that this USA presidentin’ stuff is hard. Who knew?

> [@anomalous1](#):
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> 1. Being right wing is about preserving the way the country was intended to be principled and run …

You have “being conservative” confused with “being a Trump Republican”, for which the appropriate metaphor is a kind of hurricane-driven cretinous incompetence that pretty much destroys everything in its path.

> [@anomalous1](#):
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> 3&4. I do not worship guns, and I do not hate government you idiot.

Repeating it over and over doesn’t make it so. You’ve already well established your gun nuttery by parroting the unintentionally funny line “guns aren’t the problem, ‘x’ is the problem” – where, according to His Holiness the NRA, “x” can be practically anything. I believe you favor ‘x’ = ‘culture’. For some fucking lunatic official in Texas after the last school shooting there, ‘x’ was ‘school has too many doors and windows’ (or maybe too few, I don’t remember – it doesn’t matter, as long as the message is ‘guns aren’t the problem with guns’).

> [@anomalous1](#):
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> If you don’t like the way things are here, leave… you will not be missed I promise.

Let me try to explain this again, in a style adapted for the comprehension impaired. You know how the US Census Bureau counts up all Americans every decade? Well, each and every time they’ve done it, I haven’t been on it because I’m, like, not there. I appreciate your asking me to leave, honest, and I would if I could, except I’m like, already gone. I thought that would have been clear from my remarks like “Those of us who live anywhere else in the civilized world outside of the US are quite pleased that we and our children live in relatively safe countries … we’re quite proud to be rational members of the human race”, but I guess not. But really, I’m not there, so enjoy your guns. Try not to shoot yourself in the foot and watch out for those stray bullets.

> [@anomalous1](#):
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> I started this post in earnest, genuinely curious, now I’m just irate that some wimpy liberal like wolfpup had to engage with me. It’s almost as if they are oblivious to their idiocy sometimes, so much a moron that they cannot realize they are.

But your post was completely idiotic, based entirely on delusions. It was a lot like a “serious” question about how the moon landing hoax was done. What the fuck kind of “earnest” answer did you expect to get?

Here, I feel bad for you, so let me give you an earnest answer:

“You’re right, the SDMB has completely gone to shit, and no one knows why. This appears to have happened on October 27 2017 at exactly 03:16:49Z (Coordinated Universal Time) after which time all posts were suddenly about Russia, blaming straight white men for everything, and the ‘moral and intelligence deficiency’ [sic] of Trump supporters. We have no idea what happened but we suspect Russians. Or possibly meteorites.”

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**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/74 "2018-07-19T03:49:46Z")

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> [@Thing\_Fish](#):
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> Wait a second, you fucking brainless, drooling shitstain. I thought _you_ were the one who didn’t like it here. Feel free to get the fuck out and back to Breitbart or whatever fucking rock you crawled out from under, asshole. Feel free to take octopus with you. You can go off and suck Putin’s cock together and have a jolly old time.

What’s this? Homophobic potty mouthing? Boo!

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**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/75 "2018-07-19T03:50:24Z")

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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> It kept Hillary out so that’s a good thing.

No, it’s a bad thing you happen to support.

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**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/76 "2018-07-19T03:52:06Z")

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> [@GIGObuster](#):
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> [https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/16/politics/trump-separation-families-negotiating-tool/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/16/politics/trump-separation-families-negotiating-tool/index.html)  
> As for separating families being 100% legal. That is a no too:
> 
> [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/judge-to-weigh-new-rules-for-u-s-reuniting-of-migrant-families-idUSKBN1K31A7](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/judge-to-weigh-new-rules-for-u-s-reuniting-of-migrant-families-idUSKBN1K31A7)

I said the first part was to stop illegal crossing at the border, it is a deterrent.

No, no. no. Nice try by CNN but wrong. Nothing remotely like that headline was said. He does not “suggest” that at all. Maybe you linked to the wrong article.  
According to The Peoples Republic of California? Credibility with that state went out the window long ago. They are illegal aliens, not citizens and do not have the same protections. Don’t want to be in that situation, don’t come in illegally. Simple. That reuters article does prove my second point though;

"The administration has said its initial reunifications were slowed by the need for DNA testing and criminal background checks on parents, and to determine their fitness to care for their children. "

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**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/77 "2018-07-19T04:03:37Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> Not at all, my dear fellow. With regard to revealing you to be a witless imbecile, you’ve done a fine job of that all by yourself with your fascinating political opinions, and need no help from me. The grammar nitpicks were just the kind of the thing some of us enjoy doing only semi-seriously, but if it helps to more firmly establish you as a feebleminded halfwit, the little digression was no doubt worthwhile.
> 
> Well, no, he’s not my president. If you were not so hard of comprehension, that should have been clear from the context of some of my remarks here, even if you’ve never seen any of my other posts. As for “plenty qualified”, here we have an outstanding example of both the expressive language and the political judgment that you’re so renowned for around here. He might be “plenty qualified” to preside over a beauty contest of prospective mail-order wives, but I think it’s now been well established that this USA presidentin’ stuff is hard. Who knew?
> 
> You have “being conservative” confused with “being a Trump Republican”, for which the appropriate metaphor is a kind of hurricane-driven cretinous incompetence that pretty much destroys everything in its path.
> 
> Repeating it over and over doesn’t make it so. You’ve already well established your gun nuttery by parroting the unintentionally funny line “guns aren’t the problem, ‘x’ is the problem” – where, according to His Holiness the NRA, “x” can be practically anything. I believe you favor ‘x’ = ‘culture’. For some fucking lunatic official in Texas after the last school shooting there, ‘x’ was ‘school has too many doors and windows’ (or maybe too few, I don’t remember – it doesn’t matter, as long as the message is ‘guns aren’t the problem with guns’).
> 
> Let me try to explain this again, in a style adapted for the comprehension impaired. You know how the US Census Bureau counts up all Americans every decade? Well, each and every time they’ve done it, I haven’t been on it because I’m, like, not there. I appreciate your asking me to leave, honest, and I would if I could, except I’m like, already gone. I thought that would have been clear from my remarks like “Those of us who live anywhere else in the civilized world outside of the US are quite pleased that we and our children live in relatively safe countries … we’re quite proud to be rational members of the human race”, but I guess not. But really, I’m not there, so enjoy your guns. Try not to shoot yourself in the foot and watch out for those stray bullets.
> 
> But your post was completely idiotic, based entirely on delusions. It was a lot like a “serious” question about how the moon landing hoax was done. What the fuck kind of “earnest” answer did you expect to get?
> 
> Here, I feel bad for you, so let me give you an earnest answer:
> 
> “You’re right, the SDMB has completely gone to shit, and no one knows why. This appears to have happened on October 27 2017 at exactly 03:16:49Z (Coordinated Universal Time) after which time all posts were suddenly about Russia, blaming straight white men for everything, and the ‘moral and intelligence deficiency’ [sic] of Trump supporters. We have no idea what happened but we suspect Russians. Or possibly meteorites.”

Based on delusions?

Want to talk about delusions, how about this obsessive liberal fantasy of the spectre of cold war russia and this crazy fucking ‘privilege’ and systemic/structural racism garbage you keep spewing all over the place. You are a fucking idiot in the purest sense. Congratulations. Blame everyone else but Every single post of yours is filled with inane and cyclical arguments. It’s almost as if you type shit to impress yourself rather than make an actual point. All you do is foster the stereotype for being a really fucking dumb liberal group-thinker.

What is all the ‘doors and windows’ nonsense about? Are you attributing that shit to me? Also, being conservative leaves me no choice to vote for Trump (which I did happily) you imbecile. Why the fuck would I turn coat to support the opposite of my ideals by voting for that evil pig Hillary. Try to form an actual argument instead of formatting your posts to impress yourself you liberal shitpig.

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**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/78 "2018-07-19T04:11:36Z")

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> [@Thing\_Fish](#):
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> Wait a second, you fucking brainless, drooling shitstain. I thought _you_ were the one who didn’t like it here. Feel free to get the fuck out and back to Breitbart or whatever fucking rock you crawled out from under, asshole. Feel free to take octopus with you. You can go off and suck Putin’s cock together and have a jolly old time.

Hey you shitstick (the lift on restrictions of insults here is fan-fucking-tastic) I do like it here, because there are actual moderate Democrats and other good people who didn’t swallow for Hillary Clinton and continue to suck the progressive donkey dick and are actually realists that understand you need to break a few eggs to make an omelette. I am ashamed to share the same Chicago air with such a waste of space and the other moronic progressives elsewhere who would keep voting for more of the same shit expecting something to change.

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**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/79 "2018-07-19T04:13:39Z")

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> [@octopus](#):
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> That’s because I don’t usually post to just say “I agree!”
> 
> So when you see me post it’s where I disagree, typically. So how about you don’t tell me what my motivations are?

No dissenters are allowed in the party. You know this. You have to be told how to think.

🆒

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/80 "2018-07-19T04:45:14Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
>
> Not at all, my dear fellow… \<snip\>

I’d count this up there among the Best Pittings Ever, right alongside **Cervaise** ’s [The Telemarketer Speaks. I Respond](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=51270)" thread.

Well done, **wolfpup**. This one’s a classic, and deserves to be remembered.

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