America and Toxic added some stuff to the board that was positive but it’s pretty shitty seeing literal Nazi thoughts posted frequently. I’ll always give Toxic a bit of respect simply because he was a brother who went to war for us and was in the shit but that type of rhetoric just simply makes a board like this uncomfortable. All in all I’d rather it not be included. “White people are better than everyone else” is not a worthy submission to The Marketplace of Ideas. It’s not an idea. It’s just hateful ignorance and we have enough of that.

What say you all?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

They were pretty good when they stuck to sports.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

I don’t disagree but the rest of it made the banning worthy imo. It was too prevalent. Let guys like leash and WFR argue the right wing side without going Full Hitler. Imo there’s plenty guys left who can argue the “right wing” side logically without going to that well.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

When keeping it “too online” goes wrong. That’s one of the well discussed issues of the internet age, too many places/communities where those kinds of hot takes are normal and there’s no pushback for them. It’s not like it was just racism, there were some weird personal/family attacks too.

Agreed. Pretty unfortunate.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

How does news of bans and suspensions get announced?

They don’t. Generally you realize it if you view the board more than in between flights between Hong Kong and Madagascar.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I thought management showed a lot of restraint. Both had been booted before for the same stuff that got them tossed eventually again.

I don't care for bannings, but aside from that, in this case they quite clearly asked for it and, quite clearly, they got it. It is what it is.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I completely agree but I would also say the board is more “readable” for lack of a better word, as a result? What do you think?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

What is your take on the McNown situation?

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I think the best recent enhancement to the board has been the self-imposed exile of Juice's Lecture Notes. While he may be posting under a different moniker, at least he has retired the JLN "character", who aspired to be a megalomaniacal internet provocateur while engaging in some of the most insipid arguments in the history of mankind.

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The only board member subtraction recently that I think has hurt the place is Nas and Darkside.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

It’s done. There’s nothing anyone could do.

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Elections have consequences.

There is always something people can do. They sometimes choose not to.

America is back posting - racial bullshit.

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I was paraphrasing from Goodfellas when they kill Pesci.

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Elections have consequences.

Be that as it may, Seacrest wasn't necessarily incorrect.

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Had no idea TM was banned

I guess he wasn't that important then.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

me neither. admittedly, quite a few of his only moderately racist posts made me laugh... but on the whole it was a bit much.

america was just all garbage. i really dont get the pining for his sports thoughts... it was mostly nonsense ranting


banning extremist fucktards (or just fucktards in general in some cases) and quarantining political bullshit has made this place much better.

Those guys are on the CSFMB discord anyway, aren't they? Ask them there if they want to be back here. They probably don't, they hate everybody anyway.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

Not on Discord much any more. For some reason they have a bunch of Detroit sports posters there.

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Most of you pricks aren't very funny so it's still somewhat of a trial for me. I'll get along somehow though.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

There are a few people that were conspicuously silent. Here is one of them and now we know why.

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What kind of cheese would you like to go with your whine?

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Here he comes. Its Fraternization Frank. Big round of applause for Fraternization

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((( )))

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Check out Fraternization Frank as he attempts to insulate guys that are part of the fraternity from any criticism. How noble and rather predictable he happens to be.

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Cry more.

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