I'm an old fogey from Texas. I joined up over at TheTrekBBS when I started watching The Discovery. A few of their mods have been needing some safe space apparently, one of them actually suggested in a PM that I come over here. He characterized y'all as "right wing". I came over briefly to look, and the first poster that I saw happened to be a Bernie Sanders supporter. I told him that, and commented that if a place with Bernie supporters is what they consider "right wing" over there, that they must be full on Stalinists. He got mad. I made the observation that perhaps this place is just more tolerant of differing opinions than TheTrekBBS is. He got mad again. So here I am. They sure are a sensitive bunch over there.
It used to be right wing and although some right wingers remain it is now some what left of center with a few vocal centrists. Still, it is a good board over all, it can be a bit clichish, and a handful prefer to troll instead of engage in real debate but over all it is good once you figure out who to ignore. I hope you stick around.
Thanks for the welcome. Yeah, I pretty much told the disgruntled mod over at TheTrekBBS that it did not look like it was only "right wing", but I actually enjoy a variety of viewpoints, so hopefully I will have a pleasant time here.
Don't listen to Volpone, he's old and bitter. And most of us can type better than Dinner does, so don't let him scare you either. Welcome aboard.
This has always been a left-wing bord, we've just started to run out of right-wing clowns to play with. Hence, welcome!
Well, at least at the moment it appears that the rumors of this board's death have been greatly exaggerated. Plus, friendly and free conversation with a few people is more pleasurable to me than a highly censored conversation on a busy board.
Thanks! Have no fears, the SJW mods over at the other site are doing their best to transform centrists into right-wingers. Once folks adopt the position that anything slightly to the right of Stalin is Hitler it tends to push their potential supporters away.
I do have trouble with fat fingering small phone touch screens. It doesn't help that this phone's screen is cracked.
We have some of that here. If you support anything less than complete open borders and welfare for all comers then the usual suspects will announce you are a racist/factist/Nazi. They are best just laughed at.
LOL, yeah that pretty much is all they have in their playbook now. When you point out stuff like that blacks have the lowest unemployment ever recorded and Latinos are at the lowest unemployment in 17 years, it doesn't seem to register much. Plus, Jesse Jackson, the Oprah, and plenty others absolutely loved Trump before he became a Republican candidate. Then, presto change, he must be Hitler!!!
True story: I once buzzed Oprah's estate in Hope Ranch (in Santa Barbara county) in a Cessna 152 doing slow speed training. A security guard hopped into his golf cart and started chasing us like he would some how catch our airplane in his golf cart. It was rather funny.
Yeah, don't let reality ruin your day, @Anna. Here's Jesse Jackson singing Donald Trump's praises, saying that he has done much to increase diversity in the companies he owns. And then like magic, as soon as he announces that he was a Republican candidate, SHAZAM! He's a racist.
Oh, you mean the Reverend Jesse Jackson who sat out running because his illegitimate daughter was outed? The guy who was so bitter that Obama got the win he so desperately wanted? Yeah, sounds like a Trump fanboy to me. Go kill yourself, fuckstick. Literally end your life and stop wasting oxygen.
If we do I'll accept it, but I'm honestly sick of these TBBS flameouts that think this place is a dumping ground for their racism and bigotry and plain ignorance to go unchecked. And I'd like to know which mod sent gturner clone #5 over here so I can personally slap them.
Wow, such raw hatred. But it doesn't surprise me, that is pretty much the core of a SJW when you get down to it. But always remember: