# What happened to the SDMB? **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/81 "2018-07-19T05:24:22Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > I said the first part was to stop illegal crossing at the border, it is a deterrent. Only that by admitting that AFAIK puts Trump and his administration in worst legal ground. As other articles pointed out, that is why the administration was trying to avoid saying that such an inhumane policy was a deterrent. Because that is what running afoul of American and international law is all about. As for the rest of your pap, nowhere you point as to why judges were wrong, so the point stands. Trump failed to legally justify what he was doing. ---
**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, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/82 "2018-07-19T05:30:29Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > No dissenters are allowed in the party. You know this. You have to be told how to think. > > šŸ†’ Telling others that there is justification for inhumane policies does have the side effect of malking others realize that you are not part of the human race. ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/83 "2018-07-19T06:35:36Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Iā€™d count this up there among the Best Pittings Ever, right alongside **Cervaise** ā€™s [The Telemarketer Speaks. I Respond](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=51270)" thread. > > Well done, **wolfpup**. This oneā€™s a classic, and deserves to be remembered. Gonna have to agree. A thread about the decline of the SDMB has birthed an all time classic pitting. Nice one. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/84 "2018-07-19T08:08:50Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > 1. 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. Whatā€™s one more try right? Being right wing is about being dumber than dogshit - and dishonest, to boot. ā€œThe way the country was intended to beā€ included race-based chattel slavery and second class citizenship for women. Tearing that up is not an ā€œemotional whimā€. It is the arc of moral justice. And Russiapublicans have forever lost the right to whine about Liberals cozying up to Communists. You know why America doesnā€™t get immigrants from nice countries like Norway, as Don the Con bemoans? Itā€™s because Socialist Norway has a vastly better standard of living than the US does right now. To Socialist Norwegians - _America_ is the shithole country and itā€™s people like you, anomalous1, and your embrace of Traitor Trump who make it so. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/85 "2018-07-19T08:56:20Z")
What happened to the SDMB? Really? People ALL AROUND THE WORLD are trying to lift up their chins from the floor After Trump, and youā€™re wondering what happened to the SDMB?? FFS. ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/86 "2018-07-19T09:11:12Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > To Socialist Norwegians - _America_ is the shithole country and itā€™s people like you, anomalous1, and your embrace of Traitor Trump who make it so. To socialist (_sic_) Irish, as well. When I emigrated a dozen years ago, I could liken America to an untended dumpster fire. Nowadays, its as if these right-wing shitheads are dipping homeless people in kerosene and tossing them into the fire, rubbing their hands together as they smugly beam at each other in their MAGA baseball caps. > [@anomalous1](#): > > Based on delusions? > > Want to talk about delusions, how about this obsessive liberal fantasy of the spectre of cold war russia :dubious: ā€œFantasyā€? Soā€¦ all those US election-meddling, Georgia- and Ukraine-invading, civilian-airliner-destroying, UK nerve-agent-releasing, Brexit-promoting, Syria-intervening, Poland-threatening incidentsā€¦ they didnā€™t happen? They did, but itā€™s no big deal, nothing at all like the behavior of a certain now-defunct union of socialist republics? Help me out hereā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/87 "2018-07-19T10:21:53Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > I started this post in earnest, genuinely curious I find this dubious, at best, but itā€™s the Pit so accuracy is not a requirement or even really a suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/88 "2018-07-19T12:13:09Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > Lurker for many years before joining, try reading the above posts. Which handles were you using when you were ā€œlurkingā€? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/89 "2018-07-19T12:55:49Z")
Octopus is another returning sock of some banned dickhead. Every since **Marley23** stepped down, the door has been left open. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/90 "2018-07-19T13:13:34Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Conservative boards are often hive minds as well. Thereā€™s more to be gained and learned by communication with those you disagree with. Somehow my email got on the distribution list for the daily email of a well-known right-wing periodical\*. They have Disqus comments over there, and I have occasionally commented over there under a handle that bears no resemblance to the one I use here. I mentioned in passing the kids being ripped from their families at the border. ā€œFake news,ā€ the other commenters said. Yeah, they literally said that that wasnā€™t happening, that the media made it up. There were similar comments about other bits of news, but that one stood out. Whatever our more conservative commenters think about the ā€˜hive mindā€™ here, whatā€™s happening there is so far beyond what yā€™all see here. There is no comparison. \*Which shall remain unnamed, to avoid board wars. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/91 "2018-07-19T13:41:33Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > Seriously concerned. > > All Iā€™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 ā€œwe are the unequivocal elite standard of morality and intelligenceā€. > 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? Isnā€™t there anything else to talk about these days or has it dried up? Here is a great thread for you to explore which has nothing to do with any of the above: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21094546#post21094546](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21094546#post21094546) Enjoy šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/92 "2018-07-19T13:44:59Z")
What happened is that racist cunts took over the office of the presidency and apparently colluded with Russia, a hostile power to do it. Other racist cunts try to accommodate their presidents outrageous behavior that has done real and permanent damage to our democracy. These same racist cunts tut-tut and bemoan the loss of civility even though they have been calling civility ā€œpolitical correctnessā€ and whining about it for 20 years. These racist cunts donā€™t like being called out for being racist cunts. The death of our democracy and the rise of white nationalism controlled by an outside power have not surprisingly attracted the attention of quite a few people who start threads about it or otherwise engage in existing threads about what is the most momentous event in American history since WWII. Some racist cunts are slowwwwly coming to the realization that they are on the wrong side of history and wonder whatā€™s happened to civility. Any other questions? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/93 "2018-07-19T14:01:22Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > What happened to the SDMB? > > Really? > > People ALL AROUND THE WORLD are trying to lift up their chins from the floor After Trump, and youā€™re wondering what happened to the SDMB?? > > FFS. Exactly this. You even have top Republican politicians in DC exhibiting ā€œTrump Derangement Syndromeā€. If the Republicans are showing TDS, what do you expect the better half of the population to do? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/94 "2018-07-19T14:03:20Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > [snip]. 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 countryā€™s leader between the ass cheeks like **your beloved demigods Hillary and Obama.** [Bolding Mine] Iā€™m so tired of this shit. Every Trump argument somehow has to have somebody infer that if youā€™re against Trump then you are naturally pro Obama or Pro Clinton. This is NOT A FUCKING FOOTBALL GAME where you have to root root root for your team and heckle the other. I absolutely detest Trump. I was never ever ever pleased with the way Obama did things and I view Hillary Clinton as basically a Trump - Lite alternative. So please let me go on record as say that when I blast Trump I am not whining because Hillary lost and I am not opining for the good old days of Obama. Iā€™m pissed off because in American politics I see a steady stream of self indulgent assholes (Trump is not their leader, he is their god) who put their own enrichment or the strength of their party over actually addressing the problems of the United States and fixing them. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/95 "2018-07-19T14:26:40Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > This is a bit like saying ā€œIā€™d really hate to be shot in the leg, so Iā€™m glad I was shot in the heart instead.ā€ I was thinking more on the line of, ā€œWell, the house burned down but at least we got rid of the cockroaches in it.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/96 "2018-07-19T14:39:24Z")
Another thing that I think happened is that since the 90s weā€™ve been hearing about how Red State America is the real America and the great thinkers of the American conservative movement like Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Timothy McVeigh have been calling us traitors; after Trump a lot of us realized, you know what? We fucking hate you back. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/97 "2018-07-19T14:56:49Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > ā€¦ > 2. Being right wing is about preserving the way the country was intended to be principled and run. > ā€¦ This country was intended to be one where slavery was legal and only property holding white males would have any say in how things were run. If thatā€™s what you mean then I suppose I have to compliment you on your refreshing honesty. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/98 "2018-07-19T14:59:03Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Conservative boards are often hive minds as well. Thereā€™s more to be gained and learned by communication with those you disagree with. Youā€™re basically the exact same ignorant person you were when you joined (the first time you joined). So if the learningā€™s whatā€™s keeping you here, then thereā€™s not really anything keeping you here. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/99 "2018-07-19T15:05:11Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Conservative boards are often hive minds as well. Thereā€™s more to be gained and learned by communication with those you disagree with. Letā€™s explore that: What have you learned here, and in what way has your mind been changed? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170/100 "2018-07-19T15:12:37Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Letā€™s explore that: What have you learned here, and in what way has your mind been changed? I suspect that he will evade this question by giving an answer about something negative heā€™s ā€œlearnedā€ about the SDMB or ā€œliberalsā€ in general. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-sdmb/818170.md?page=6)