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I wanna insult somebody but the thunderdome takes the thill away.
How about a new rule where each user is required to read one thunder dome comment for every 5 sane comments. Of course they would be automatically transferred to the dome. No user action required...

I came back after getting Pat's e-mail about the change just to see how compliant people would be. :)

@Goran_K welcome back! Miss your good insights.

Note that insults are allowed in threads with "thunderdome" in the title.

I like to visit once in a while Pat, I'm glad this community is still around after all these years.

Assuming that this is still about "free speech" on this thread, protecting other people’s self-esteem or emotional states has become important because humans are no longer seen as being able to cope with ‘disagreeable’ words. This has pretty much become the organizing principle on university campuses throughout Britain and America. But the culture of limiting ‘offence’ has only encouraged people to perceive and exaggerate all manner of comments as ‘offensive’. We’ve reached the point where an individual’s subjective ‘hurt’ now triumphs over solidarity with other people. Indeed, solidarity based around work, how most of us are only one pay check away from penury, was once a powerful social bond among the powerless in society.

One sided news is "Fake News" and the mainstream media are the largest offenders. The essence of journalism was to present both sides of the issue. When was this lost? Fox tries to be "Fair and Balanced". CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC and many others are very biased.

a1sinclair says

Fox tries to be "Fair and Balanced".

Fox has a hard right reputation. Undeniable.

When someone says something blunt like "Believe me" odds are you should consider doing the opposite. The same with tag lines and mission statements.

When someone with horrible credibility calls something FAKE NEWS, you can almost guarantee there is very little basis for the accusation. They may point at certain articles, but they will be unable to challenge the actual factual record, the article now challenging them, and sometimes even their own words are against them.

Fox has a hard right reputation because the other networks are so unfair and biased to the left. Watch Fox and you will see two sides of most stories (fair and balanced). It is the old style of journalism. Viewership continues to migrate towards Fox from the other networks. The public has come to realize how the other networks have lied "Fake News" about so much and presented a wholly biased opinion instead of facts. You can stick with the other net works but the independents are moving to Fox. That is why Hillary lost the election. These demonstrations by lefties are driving more people away from the democrat party. What the left does not understand is that the private sector must be healthy and if it is not government revenues and the economy weaken. Capitalism works and Socialism does not. Government is a burden on the economy and not an engine. Once you understand that, you realize that we must do more to support the private sector. In the last election, the voters that have jobs and are paying taxes decided that they resent those that are not working and are collecting. They are a burden to the system and we must create more jobs or fail. Soros knows that Capitalism will beat Socialism and the only reason he invests in U S Politics is because he wants to convert us to Socialism so we don't destroy the European economy. Think about it, there is no other reason. He is trying to protect Europe by destroying capitalism in the United States. The secret is not to mandate higher wages but to create more jobs and create more demand for labor. Only 3% of the working population work at minimum wages; it should be called a starting wage. It is critical to get people employed. Higher starting wages just creates more robots more welfare and fewer employed people. Kids that had a job in high school permanently earn more than kids that did not. At the very least we should exempt people under 20 and handicapped people from any minimum wages.