Bans & Warnings (Hot) Off-Topic (Main)

PIMPBYBLUD (18192552)

That's what she said.

Garret (18190557)

I don't really care. Go Pats!

DeaconKnowledge (18193927)

Get off the high horse duder. You making a post on a message board isn't going to un traffick these females. Though I guess this locks right into Asterisks fans m.o. "it's not fair that people dare to talk about my team's indiscretions!" When Ben got arrested for sexual assault I didn't wag my finger at fans of other teams for not thinking of the girl when they were shitting all over my favorite team.

Detective Loki (18190149)

For a mostly victimless crime (excluding known trafficking issues) this is annoying to see

kylecoley182 (18189422)

Kraft is a evil motherfucker fuck him hope he goes to jail and drops the soap

see5harp (18189281)

Who gives a fuck can an old man get his dick sucked?

Arc (18188732)

Mr. Kraft is a victim here. How is he supposed to know the parlor is involved with trafficking? Dude was just trying to get a happy ending.

schwifty (18116041)

Please tell us how we should think and feel, as well

Ron Paul (18138370)

choodi (17975898)

I hope this thread has generated a good long discussion and a shitload of introspection and consideration from the moderation team regarding the standards and quality of moderation on this forum. Instead of just over-reacting and banning dissenting opinions, maybe there should have been an attempt to engage with people to try to understand why they thought the whole story was fishy (which it is now well beyond any reasonable doubt). Instead, this whole thing was turned into a massive race/culture war where those with power abused it to shut out those they didn't agree with and then got egg all over their faces when all of the doubts people had initially were shown to be legitimate and not just borne out of "white privilege" or whatever buzzword insult was being thrown around. I couldn't give three fucking shits about this guy and before this thread I didn't even know who he was. I certainly don't give a shit about whether he set this whole thing up or not and am only here because this episode is a perfect illustration of what is wrong with this place. ... ... ... Who am I kidding? Introspection? Yeah right! It's just easier to ban people and bury your heads in the sand.

jacob.armitage (18162801)

Catdaddy (18152017)

What a piece of shit.. she has a good porn name though..

yepyepyep (18169278)

Why don't you let users discuss issues publicly? Because to my knowledge every feedback thread this site has run has ended up with the mods closing it. Hell, I'm pretty sure there was a thread that was deleted from the server because people thought one of the mods were out of line. Gaf literally imploded because people were tired of the mods, there were so many thread closures and arbitrary bans during the last weeks. If you have a large amount of users revealing that they didn't post on a thread because they thought they would get banned, then that is signalling there is a major problem with the way this forum is being run. There is a major problem on this site when the mods post an official staff post that basically only accept what they want to hear. Royalan literally didn't accept people pointing out strange things about the story like the time, weather and area of Chicago that it took place and suggested that doing so is "victim blaming". That is a really ridiculous decision for a discussion forum. And no, the tensions in this community are not going to be solved by sweeping everything under the rug and suggesting everyone just vent to the mods via PM. This is not a HR issue in a company, this is a bloody discussion forum. Let us discuss it.

Lonewulfeus (18166266)

durrTK (18165141)

I'm gonna take this opportunity to call out RedMercury from the old thread. That person's attitude was extremely antagonistic towards other posters knowing full well that if anyone engages they would most likely get banned. Getting aggressive towards posters, making terrible assumptions about them, and egging them on to say anything while hiding behind the mods. it's quite frustrating to see people like that not get any warnings, while other reasonable posters get a ban hammer for engaging with them.

BronsonLee (18165207)

Ok I'm back around

jacob.armitage (18162886)

Megatherium (18111362)

I think having your political views dictated to you by the position of the Overton window is stupid. I also think centrists look really dumb when you pick most any serious issue and try to justify a centrist stance.

Grouch Douglass (18111254)

Era is not a hivemind. Being a centrist is ok, even if a lot of EtcetEra likes to pretend they don't really exist IRL. I would say its much more likely to find centrists when you interact with real life people vs message board members.

M52B28 (18113068)

You sound like a fucking idiot.

ResilientBanana (18143373)

Now that I'm not banned. That's not what I was saying, as a matter of fact, I never said they were lousy people for getting pregnant. I just said they were lousy people. You can be a lousy person without getting abortions also. Era just jumped on that bandwagon and went with what they do best and add controversial and irrational hyperbole to a few simple statements. Then once the mob started it was on a freight train to hell. Oddly enough absolutely no women responded to my comments (that I could tell) which was odd, maybe they actually comprehended what I was saying without jumping to conclusions? The people I was referring to were lousy people in general. For instance one of the ladies I worked with for a while and in that time she told me all of her hardcore sex stories, propositioned me, a married man with kids, on numerous occasions. She carried on with a relationship with not 1 but 3 men to which none of them had any clue and had 2 abortions because she didn't know who got her impregnated. She even got one of those guys to pay for the abortion and each of them bought her nice things and at least one of them wanted to marry her. She was straight up horrible. Eventually, it hilariously blew up in her face when the roommate that she was going to kick out her house looked at her ipad and found out she was going to kick her out for seemingly little reason other than she wanted to live alone for a while. So she took screenshots of all the conversations and racy photos and sent them to the 3 other guys that each thought they were exclusive. She then played the victim, wondering why someone would do that to her because she was so nice. Finally, yes I see abortion as a shitty thing to do. Like I said earlier, however, I think woman should have the right to do it because it is their body. But is it for me and my wife? No, we know how to live with our decisions. I look at my kids and sometimes and couldn't imagine them not existing. But to each their own. But fuck me for having a point of view.

RabbidPeach (4311505)

Between the right killing people and the left being full of rapists and creeps, I'm glad I don't identify as either.

turtle553 (17994358)

There has to be some tolerance for questioning all the details of a story. If he said that space aliens attacked him. Would it be victim blaming to say that seems unlikely?

BrucCLea13k87 (18136637)

What to set people back my dude...now all the Trumptards can and WILL question any hate crimes. You fucked up Jussie. Asshole

Murderopolis (18141513)

Disgusting we actually have people here defending this. Incredible. Got some straight Nazis on reset era.

Brashnir (18067372)

I think we're more in agreement than disagreement. I'm super in support of trans rights and the many issues involved therein. But sporting competition is a very complicated thing, especially where these two issues intersect. Women's sports are separated for a reason, and the reason is that in a level playing field, women can't physically compete. If they could, women's sports wouldn't exist. As such, I'm generally inclined to support the amazing athletic women among us who are capable to doing remarkable things, and I appreciate the idea of protecting them against the others who can physically dominate them due to genetic advantages. Trans women pose an additional challenge due to hormone therapy and other circumstances. Those make for an exceptionally challenging environment for creating a fair - but separate - playing field for women athletes.

Timmm (18121450)

I'm not trying to persuade you to have sympathy, that's clearly not the way your brain works - but when i pointed out that you are prejudiced, you disagreed. I was just pointing out how you were, which you now acknowledge.

Lackless (17995189)

It's been like that since after a few months after this site went live. Moderators will go into a thread, make a post that's a borderline threat to anyone who thinks differently of them and the then the thread just becomes people agreeing with each other. Then they say something like "Stop talking about this. Send us a PM so we can ignore it better" and the discussion dies off just how they like it.

SweetNicole (18116888)

Diema (18113347)

I can easily imagine causing a shitstorm over this, but I feel it is important to voice this opinion. If he's guilty, I hope he gets the fucking noose. If he's innocent, then I hope that he can put this behind him and find work soon. But consider this - if the only difference between the noose and being able to continue to work for a living is objectivity, then I think it is wise to wait and see what the courts have to say about it as opposed to relying solely on anecdotal evidence.

H4zeVentura (18105924)

Burn her alive.

lunarworks (18111247)

Modern "centrists" are just closet right wingers who are terrified of people not liking them for their views.

B-Dubs (18109603)

Briarios (17572167)

You're holding him accountable for a mind crime? Are you the thought police? He didn't actually do anything ... He recounted how messed up and wrong he was for thinking this way. But, he didn't actually do anything to anyone. So, you think we should just disparage anyone who has had a terrible thought or intent based on race or belief? That's probably most the planet, including PoC. If we can't talk honestly about about how culture and events have affected us without having our lives blown apart, it'll be impossible to change anything.

mgagagokayo (18098784)

gtfo. you don't like my post so you go to my history and create your own narrative to get me banned ? gtfo. its people like you who can't handle an opinion and go for other points to admonish their character. weak times create weak people.

AgainstTheCurrent (15598888)

You're not. You're a man living as a woman.

junomars (18077773)

Triggered is as triggered does. If you're not someone that posts pictures to make life look more interesting than it is, then why reply? A hit dog will holler... Im obviously not talking about people that don't do the former but to pretend like it doesn't exist to a wide degree is insane lmao. I don't care. This is only something I would discuss on a place like this or with friends my age. The way you all seem so bothered by the discussion is hilarious though.

Colonel Getafe (18085366)

Labour members are abusing Jews regularly and citing antizionism when called out. The leader is a racist with a career long history of defending blood libelers, holocaust deniers and career antisemites. Think that post above about the MP but several thousand times over.

gcwy (17973315)

RIP to the victims. This may be insensitive as fuck, but I really hope the suspect was white.

wafflebrain (17995490)

Hey at least you're consistent with towing the line :p Never question anything anyone in a position of authority does people, nope nobody ever makes mistakes in those positions! Never room for growth or having an open dialogue with your community either, no sir! Just take them shits to PM where they'll be lost to the ether with all the other valid criticism xD

MasterSummerSmith462 (18078860)

She has stated some toxic things so dumb retaliation like this is unfortunately expected. Edit: Don’t let your own fragility make you upset. Hope the movie will indeed be good.

Zappy (18072419)

I'm not defending that policy. But it isn't racist in itself. Its xenophobic, bigoted and completely unacceptable IMO. However, it wasn't a "racist policy". It wasn't targeted at "Jews or Asians or Black people" it was simply a plan to create a "hostile environment" to try and deter illegal immigrants from any race or ethnicity from entering the country. It is completely wrong. And of course some of the interpretations and implementations were racist. But the policy itself as abhorrent as it is, is not racist. It is also not a policy that is exclusive to this country.

Menelaus (18077101)

I am LIVING for all of the salt in this goddamn thread. Chaos. LET IT FLOW.

bubbles (17948911)

This has nothing to do with race. Yes, there are crazy gullible people. You also ignore that this sort of racism is incredibly rare now. America does not really have these sort of lynchings any longer. Had somebody throw something at him from a car or called him a slur, I would believe it. But you seem to fear that there are white people searching for non-white peoples to physically harm every hour of every day in ever place in America. Some people like this doubtlessly exist. They do not exist in numbers great enough to worry about.

ZackieChan (18064609)

Widely published interview surfaces!

Theduce22 (18070460)

Anyone with even a basic understanding of anatomy and physiology knows it's not fair to women born as women. But apparently we can't debate that here because some "researcher" looking for a specific outcome studied 8 transgender runners once.

Zeel (17671940)

I take offense in this whole all white people are blabla crap. My skin may be white but I spent my childhood in a war torn Eastern European country and was lucky to get out alive and accepted in a western country as a refugee. The times were tough and my family had hardly anything to eat, every day was a struggle. Atleast try to differentiate and use terms like western European / American white people, cuz I sure don't want to be thrown into the same drawer as those colonialists.

MartinB105 (17664799)

This post is 100% correct. The implication of singling out white beg-packers is that you think it's OK if non-white people do it.As far as English as a second language goes, the Dutch are about as close to native-English as it gets, and not at all representative of the typical level of English understood by the average non-native speaker.

Hooky (17942565)

This thread is fucking weird. Something close to the truth will eventually come out, what's the rush? One group seems to actually want someone to be the victim of a hate crime just to reinforce their "choice" to be a voice on the frontlines of our national conversation: the all-volunteer nintendo message board. Another is hoping to do that thing where they can say, "I knew this was shady, check my posts," but no one gives a shit. The mods are (rightfully) getting dunked on left and right for being controlling, obtuse weirdos, and I bet entremet has his hooks in somehow. Won't presume to speak for anyone else, but this isn't what I had in mind. The pettiness.

jcnet (17939789)

She's probably shallow and if you had 6 pack abs she would give you a pass on whatever you said to her. Make her apologize to you then block her IMO.