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Can I no longer say Fuck Scum RepCons in this new site of no Freedom.
There are many ideas that we will never agree on. The left and the right have different ways of approaching governance, based on contrasting philosophies. But many of the ultimate goals — economic prosperity, better health care and education, etc. — are the same. We just don’t share the same vision of how to achieve them.- Dan Crenshaw
Maybe the main thing should be unifying vs divisive. That may be even more important than civility.
richwicks saysAllow downvotes in two modes:
I'll automatically downvote the reply someone makes to justify their downvote of my original post.
More balance would improve the site.
How does following a cult make you qualified to diagnose all non-cultists as deranged as soon as you criticize the demigod leader?
From the same article in Quora
https://www.quora.com/Has-the-US-ever-used-military-power-against-its-citizens
jazz_music saysFrom the same article in Quora
https://www.quora.com/Has-the-US-ever-used-military-power-against-its-citizens
What does that have to do with the topic? Why are you posting it in this thread?
richwicks saysjazz_music saysFrom the same article in Quora
https://www.quora.com/Has-the-US-ever-used-military-power-against-its-citizens
What does that have to do with the topic? Why are you posting it in this thread?
Agreed nothing to do with it
I vote to moderate VERY CAREFULLY.
Have a line that people can't cross (I suggest to block anyone who consistently denigrates the Constitution and/or the Bill of Rights), give X number of warnings and then block their IP address.
Agreed but we need to also establish ideas to discuss that are worth everyone's time and input. For example discussing mandatory body cameras on cops and protocols for other officers witnessing malpractice without even mentioning race as it is neither part of the problem nor the solution would be a thread that could be discussed rationally and without unscientific distractions.
richwicks saysWhat does that have to do with the topic? Why are you posting it in this thread?A direct response to the question from wookieman.
mell saysAgreed but we need to also establish ideas to discuss that are worth everyone's time and input. For example discussing mandatory body cameras on cops and protocols for other officers witnessing malpractice without even mentioning race as it is neither part of the problem nor the solution would be a thread that could be discussed rationally and without unscientific distractions.
I would disagree because who is to determine what subject is worth somebody's time?
Here's a suggestion though - let us mute (ignore) topics on the main page. For example (and no offense to the person posting it)
https://www.patrick.net/post/1331911/2020-05-01-help-me-save-my-neighbor
I will never contribute to that thread, and I'm not particularly interested in t...
richwicks says2) the downvotes only count if there's a response from the person who downvoted it.
Yes, with civility rules this could be good. Maybe "dislike" should require a comment to explain why. So you click dislike, and it puts a quote of that comment in the comment box starting with: "Patrick disliked: ..."
You have violated our terms and services - please search through here to guess randomly which one of them you think it might be. If you do not think you have violated the terms and services, you may hire a lawyer of which we have 2,000 to argue in court.
We are an open platform.
Nobody needs to determine if a thread is worthy but if you start such a thread you can basically say that you will delete all posts containing race and ban the person from the thread if necessary so you can keep a scientific and rational discussion that leads to solution and ideas instead of blaming the boogeyman.
WineHorror1 saysI vote to moderate VERY CAREFULLY.
Have a line that people can't cross (I suggest to block anyone who consistently denigrates the Constitution and/or the Bill of Rights), give X number of warnings and then block their IP address.
Oh come on!
Part of Freedom of Speech is to identify who the nuts are after all.
Somebody talking crap about the Bill of rights and Constitution - if you can't explain to them how wrong they are, you haven't thought too much about history.
Some fool talking about ending 1st amendment rights - fine - that means they can live as non human animals, who can never complain about our condition and have to accept a religion called Scientology and be required to tithe to this church 15% of our income and go to services every day. It's the law!
BTW - we lost 4th amendment rights with the Patriot Act. That's gone.
What's with all the "false" add-ons at the end of everyone's comment?
WineHorror1 saysWhat's with all the "false" add-ons at the end of everyone's comment?
Damn, that's was a bug I just introduced. Should be gone now. Thanks for telling me.
Patrick saysMaybe the main thing should be unifying vs divisive. That may be even more important than civility.
Sorry Pat, that can't happen until at a minimum, we get control back of education from Intersectionals.
K-12 literally teaches that unity is Evil Whiteness and that every non-White group must be encouraged not to assimiliate, but all Whites must endorse (but not culturally appropriate or ignore)
Actually, I don't think there should be any moderating or censoring on patrick.net. There are very few places on the internet where a person can say any damn thing they want anonymously. Free speech should be treasured.
How does following a cult make you qualified...
A thousand downvotes and one upvote and no explanation of why what was said is wrong, tells me it was right over the mark, and it just blew 1000 minds and they are upset and angry. It tells me one person had the courage to agree despite it being very unpopular.
That's why both counts should be kept.
You're projecting a lot of venom on people. The main reason I like Trump, for example, is he's not started a new war. I'm not hard to please, but the last time we had a president that didn't start a new war in his first term was Jimmy Carter. I was 9 when he left office. I get tired of people calling me a "fanatic" or something similar just because I'm overjoyed about not starting up another war to steal shit in my name, with my tax money. Tired of this murderous government keeping us in endless wars.
I vote to moderate VERY CAREFULLY.
Have a line that people can't cross (I suggest to block anyone who consistently denigrates the Constitution and/or the Bill of Rights), give X number of warnings and then block their IP address.
BTW - we lost 4th amendment rights with the Patriot Act. That's gone.
I'd just like to be able to ignore entire topics of discussion.
Patrick saysThat's divisive. It really is. And personal too.Oh?
That comment was to the commenter above that starts right in with “TDS” since the accuser is actually the afflicted.
You wouldn’t overlook that would you?
Patrick saysWineHorror1 saysWhat's with all the "false" add-ons at the end of everyone's comment?
Damn, that's was a bug I just introduced. Should be gone now. Thanks for telling me.
Patrick - Are you developing on Apache? I can setup a virtual machine for you to develop on, and mirror your site. I have a GB internet speed.
But I would have access to your code - and you probably don't want that.
If it is Apache, I can setup a raspberry pi 4 for you, clone the enabled mods, and just send you an SD card or even the box. It's only $100. Then you have a local place to develop. You can even duplicate the site. 256GB of space should be enough.
The source code is at
- There is a new kind of flag called "divisive"
How does following a cult make you qualified...
That's divisive. It really is
richwicks saysBTW - we lost 4th amendment rights with the Patriot Act. That's gone.
We should fight to get it back. The game is never over! They will keep taking away rights until people resist one way or another.
And as soon as we slack off, they will start taking away rights again.
The current situation is terrible, but it's not hopeless.
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So no more pictures of Trump as an insane clown or talk of his being raped by Putin. That does not address his policies specifically and helps nothing. It just divides us.
And no more phrases like "liberals". That immediately eliminates the possibility of a liberal wanting to have a polite discussion of his point of view here. Again, it just divides us.
We need unity, not more division. E pluribus unum.
I'm just going to flag posts and comments I find to be stirring up hate and division. Don't worry, you'll know what that means, and the author will be able to click the "edit" button to see just what it was that got the post or comment flagged. It will be clear and fair.
Yes, it's a kind of censorship, but my hope is that it will make this site more useful to people of good will who really want to understand their fellow citizens and improve life. While the MSM routinely censors "offensive" ideas like the Red Pill theory, or our innate differences by sex and race, I'm not going to do that. All ideas are still open for discussion in a civil manner. The tag-line "Freedom to Offend" was not being understood as I intended. It seemed to be generating posts that were deliberately and angrily offensive.
Sorry if it seems like the food-fight is over. Everyone is still very welcome to have their say, just treat others as you would wish to be treated, including other political parties and public figures, and you'll still be able to make any point you want.