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superrific said:
Fair enough. I agree with you mostly. As a technical matter, I recall the Tea Party being more astroturf. It was organized by Glenn Beck IIRC. That doesn't really affect your overall point though, which is well-taken.
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Something like a proto-Tea Party had been around earlier, since at least 2002 (my first experience with them) although I think they went back further than that. They’d been active in libertarian Republican circles until they broke through to the mainstream.

I understand the charges of astroturfing via Beck & others, but that was the Republican mainstream co-opting the previously niche movement. But you’re correct that is what pushed it into the mainstream from the sidelines.
 
Tea Party was when I noticed the first of the fringe intelligent #DeepChathamites beginning to careen off into the bizarro universe.

Something also makes the name Grover Norquist stick out from those ugly birthings too.
 
finesse said:
HeelTalk. It spun off when ZZL first split. It's mostly been a decent place to go but literally everyone is a couple of decades younger than me. I still drop by but it has gotten pretty slow and pretty predictable.
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I just can't participate on a board where Sandi is accepted and lauded. It's totally cool that those folks apparently like and understand him, but I just don't. He strikes me as completely mean spirited in a very personal and dangerous way.
 
I haven't been by IC lately either... today I went there (for some unknown reason) and got hit with some sort of Ad Blocker thingy. Couldn't get past the paywall



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finesse said:
HeelTalk. It spun off when ZZL first split. It's mostly been a decent place to go but literally everyone is a couple of decades younger than me. I still drop by but it has gotten pretty slow and pretty predictable.
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I’ve seen that place referenced periodically and just looked it up for the first time. When I click on the site link it gives me a “this account has been suspended” error message lol. Is the entire site defunct or what?
 
Peppers49 said:
I’ve seen that place referenced periodically and just looked it up for the first time. When I click on the site link it gives me a “this account has been suspended” error message lol. Is the entire site defunct or what?
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Just happened this afternoon. Don't know what happened.
 
wmheel1287 said:
I just can't participate on a board where Sandi is accepted and lauded. It's totally cool that those folks apparently like and understand him, but I just don't. He strikes me as completely mean spirited in a very personal and dangerous way.
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He's not everyone's cup of tea. I do think a commonality among HT regulars is we don't take him seriously. Deep down he's a big teddy bear. A big fat coked out teddy bear.
 
Centerpiece said:
I haven't been by IC lately either... today I went there (for some unknown reason) and got hit with some sort of Ad Blocker thingy. Couldn't get past the paywall



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Normally I get that if I am logged out. I hit escape and it goes away, then I log in.

Interesting is that I get the add blocker message from several sites. I try escape and it goes away, but some it will not. I don't actually have an add blocker, so there is nothing to turn off. And I don't understand how ads work anyway, I've never and will never buy anything because I got a stupid popup that blocked the article I was trying to read.
 
McAdooSmackinYou said:
He's not everyone's cup of tea. I do think a commonality among HT regulars is we don't take him seriously. Deep down he's a big teddy bear. A big fat coked out teddy bear.
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If he would share his coke, it would be easier to not take him seriously. 😁

Seriously, I don't really have any issue with him. I just know not to respond.
 
UNCatTech said:
Normally I get that if I am logged out. I hit escape and it goes away, then I log in.

Interesting is that I get the add blocker message from several sites. I try escape and it goes away, but some it will not. I don't actually have an add blocker, so there is nothing to turn off. And I don't understand how ads work anyway, I've never and will never buy anything because I got a stupid popup that blocked the article I was trying to read.
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Sorry. I can't read your reply. Ad block and paywall keep popping up.
 
HeelingAg said:
It’s a profoundly unthinking position, apparently hidden from the bosider by their own arrogance.
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How is expanding the perspective an unthinking position?

How is posing the question why do we have to accept the least bad option, as opposed to a good option, arrogant?

I suspect so called Bo-spiders get rebuked here because the position threatens posters’ political identities.
 
ColdBlueSteel said:
How is expanding the perspective an unthinking position?

How is posing the question why do we have to accept the least bad option, as opposed to a good option, arrogant?

I suspect so called Bo-spiders get rebuked here because the position threatens posters’ political identities.
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More because they are sulky little assholes afraid to stand for anything so they stand for everything.
 
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