I do want conservatives on here

I have mixed feelings. I genuinely want open conversations, and I believe there’s common ground to be found—but those topics rarely seem to come up.

Sometimes I worry that I come across as harsh toward other posters. I try not to be, but written communication isn’t always my strong suit.

What really bothers me is when people don’t post things we can actually discuss or debate. Instead, like silence, they share content that seems to celebrate others’ pain—and that’s something I’m completely against. Even in the FAFO thread, I feel sympathy for the people on the “FO” side. I don’t take joy in their suffering. I honestly don’t understand how anyone can.
 
No self-professed conservative can support law and order, on the one hand, and the Trump family's brazen corruption, on the other. To pretend it's not corruption is to cuck your own brain.

And I'm not even talking about the half-a-billion-dollar jet or the pardons for $1M dinners. The day-to-day crypto schemes and bribery have netted the Trumps approximately $700M: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-zeke-faux.html
It's a Bank Robbery in broad daylight.
 
Reagan loved him some evangelicals. Goldwater pushed them away because he thought they were nuts and would take the party away from conservatism in the sense of a smaller government. He lost, but he was proven exactly right.
In fairness, Buckley excoriated the John Birch Society...
 
So in today's lesson - we've come full circle. Why do we really want "conservatives"- as they pretend to be in the world - on this board? And I can say this, coming from a LONG FUCKING LINE OF REPUBLICANS (of the Lincoln, Teddy, Dwight variety).

“The question was posed, "Why do people continue supporting Trump no matter what he does?" A lady named Bev answered it this way:
“You all don't get it. I live in Trump country, in the Ozarks in southern Missouri, one of the last places where the KKK still has a relatively strong established presence.
They don't give a shit what he does. He's just something to rally around and hate liberals, that's it, period.
He absolutely realizes that and plays it up. They love it. He knows they love it.
The fact that people act like it's anything other than that proves to them that liberals are idiots, all the more reason for high fives all around.
If you keep getting caught up in "why do they not realize this problem" and "how can they still back Trump after this scandal," then you do not understand what the underlying motivating factor of his support is. It's fuck liberals, that's pretty much it.
Have you noticed he can do pretty much anything imaginable, and they'll explain some way that rationalizes it that makes zero logical sense?
Because they're not even keeping track of any coherent narrative, it's irrelevant. Fuck liberals is the only relevant thing.
Trust me; I know firsthand what I'm talking about.
That's why they just laugh at it all because you all don't even realize they truly don't give a fuck about whatever the conversation is about.
It's just a side mission story that doesn't matter anyway.
That's all just trivial details - the economy, health care, whatever.
Fuck liberals.
Look at the issue with not wearing the masks.
I can tell you what that's about. It's about exposing fear. They're playing chicken with nature, and whoever flinches just moved down their internal pecking order, one step closer to being a liberal.
You've got to understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness because that's what they believe strength is, hatred of weakness.
And I mean passionate, sadistic hatred.
And I'm not exaggerating. Believe me.
Sadistic, passionate hatred, and that's what proves they're strong, their passionate hatred for weakness.
Sometimes they will lump vulnerability in with weakness.
They do that because people tend to start humbling themselves when they're in some compromising or overwhelming circumstance, and to them, that's an obvious sign of weakness.
Kindness = weakness. Honesty = weakness.
Compromise = weakness.
They consider their very existence to be superior in every way to anyone who doesn't hate weakness as much as they do.
They consider liberals to be weak people that are inferior, almost a different species, and the fact that liberals are so weak is why they have to unite in large numbers, which they find disgusting, but it's that disgust that is a true expression of their natural superiority.
Go ahead and try to have a logical, rational conversation with them. Just keep in mind what I said here and be forewarned.”
The sad thing is you can type this whole thing over again except this time, let it be a description of how liberals feel towards conservatives and it will have just as much, if not more, validity as it does now. And I'm not even a Republican, never have been.
 
I was gonna say, Max is a Democrat. He HATES Trump.
I need to label those who I’ve ignored as Trumper or Dookie so I can cast my aspersions accordingly. I’ll remove max’s moniker from my posts above. I’ll abide the Dukes as long as he’s an antiTrumper.
 
I need to label those who I’ve ignored as Trumper or Dookie so I can cast my aspersions accordingly. I’ll remove max’s moniker from my posts above. I’ll abide the Dukes as long as he’s an antiTrumper.

Us Dukies aren't all bad. Just as all you guys aren't all bad. With everything that's going on in today's world, I'm just looking to associate myself with good people.
 
I am never in favor of outright banning based on ideology. Excessive baiting/trolling for the sake of riling people up? Sure, that's something to police. But no virtual space ever improved by simply banning dissenting viewpoints, even incredibly stupid and destructive ones.
 
I am never in favor of outright banning based on ideology. Excessive baiting/trolling for the sake of riling people up? Sure, that's something to police. But no virtual space ever improved by simply banning dissenting viewpoints, even incredibly stupid and destructive ones.
agreed. there are several maga and maga adjacent folks on here whose viewpoints i mostly find loathsome but they don't bait/troll and usually will engage in some form of discussion.

there are a few others who are clearly only here to bait/troll. namely silence dipshit, who i cannot fathom why the mods continue to let post on this board. then of course there's also the unhinged person who creates a new account every other day.
 
He has before. Not sure if he does anymore. But yes, he used to.
He uses the late Val Kilmer's winking image from "Tombstone" as his badge on this board
I had a couple of nice PM exchanges with Max. Good dude, wish he would come back and post in here...
 
I've seen it happen often that people label those with views they disagree with as "trolling." It's like some kind of coping mechanism or something. The word is used *way* too often IMO.
i only think that it applies to one regular poster on this board. their posts are almost exclusively outright lies and distortions from propaganda social media accounts. their behavior and posting style/habits fit the definition of trolling to a T.
 
I've seen it happen often that people label those with views they disagree with as "trolling." It's like some kind of coping mechanism or something. The word is used *way* too often IMO.
Absolutely. People often become so convinced that their opinion is "right" that it becomes unimaginable to think otherwise and anyone who does think differently just has to be trolling.

A lot of that is the result, IMO, of confirmation bias.
 
i only think that it applies to one regular poster on this board. their posts are almost exclusively outright lies and distortions from propaganda social media accounts. their behavior and posting style/habits fit the definition of trolling to a T.

Sure, but how do you distinguish someone who is a troll from someone who is simply a moron?
 
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