[This message has been edited by Lambo nut (edited 02-22-2022).]

Cliff, first of all... thank-you thank-you for creating the Politics & Religion sub-section. Much appreciated.

I'm so glad that members here who enjoy political "discussion" now have their own little corner to reside in where they can focus on resolving world problems.

May I make one suggestion in regards to O/T (and this may've already been requested)?

It's inevitable that a perfectly fine O/T thread will be "sabotaged" by inappropriate political comments. May I suggest that instead of the entire thread then being banished to the new sub-section, that the offending post simply be deleted from the thread? These inappropriate posts could be reported to you in the usual manner, and it probably wouldn't take much of a gander by you to determine that comments about Nazis, Leftists, Trump, Biden, Trudeau, whomever/whatever don't belong in a thread about composting. Well, maybe they do, but I think you catch my drift. Thanks.

[This message has been edited by Patrick (edited 02-22-2022).]

quote Originally posted by Lambo nut: So him calling people out for their bullsh!t is the problem? Got it. You were the kid in class that put their hand over their mouth and said Oommm, I'm telling the teacher! weren't you? Grow the fug up.

I'd characterize it as frequent unprovoked attacks on their character and intelligence.

I posted another (expanded) version of this comment in the Politics subreddit [edit: topic ], but as it's the same thread of conversation, here are some snippets of activity:

quote Originally posted by randye without provocation here: EDIT: Proving the old saying: "Even a blind squirrel eventually gathers a random nut", our PENNOCKS PURVEYOR OF PERJURY actually somehow managed to get one right. I just read through the federal grand jury indictment. It is 11 people indicted for "seditious conspiracy".

^I thought this one was particularly interesting, because this is how he said the other user was right... by calling them a "PENNOCKS PURVEYOR OF PERJURY ."

quote Originally posted by randye without provocation here: .... but, as I pointed out, your lack of competence in this has been absolutely no barrier to your inflated self assessment that you know better than the authors, researchers and publishers of that medical study.... (See: Dunning - Kruger reference) ... Since this is likely to be extremely tedious and also likely to be completely unproductive with you, let's start with what should be the simplest thing: IF you had the competence to understand what you presumably read you would NOT have ridiculously asked "Has this been peer reviewed?" ... Even a casual, lay, reader should have at least questioned where the study came from as evidenced by it's header, but you are completely oblivious and incurious..... ...and your clear incompetence with the subject matter at hand is then demonstrated with your question: Has this been peer-reviewed? I'll leave you to go back again and try desperately to ferret out what the "control group" in that study is. It's clearly there and it's as obvious as the peer review you aren't competent in this area to understand. ...

quote Originally posted by randye with some provocation, depending on how you read the comments, here: ... I'm not sure I have enough time or crayons to explain it to you so that you will understand, ...

quote Originally posted by randye without provocation here: The post after it is proof positive that I have a Leftist troll shadowing me after every post that I make in this and other threads.

^On its own? Not a big deal. But then when that person responded, he said he never called them by name so it was proof they were following them around... but Randy had clearly spoken about one person being that each comment in every thread is placed sequentially. This is how he gets around the "personal attack" rule - by either branding them as a "Leftist" then speaking against Lefists, or by talking about a particular comment without calling them by name.

quote Originally posted by randye without provocation here: Like I said: "Most people have the ideological IQ of a tree stump" and nothing illustrates that better than the young "Dub" has here. It is amusing though to read the gobbeldy-gook, mish-mash of contradictory and irreconcilable political posturing that he attempts to assemble into some vaguely coherent "position" that is anything but "libertarian". It's what you get when a Leftist tries to "identify as" something else. Everyone else sees him as just a guy in a dress. He just thinks you won't see him for what he really is if tries hard enough to get you to share his delusion.

^Calling a user (me) out by name after stating "most people have the ideological IQ of a tree stump." Honestly, the colorful language is kind of funny, but come on, it's also clearly against forum rules.

quote Originally posted by randye without provocation here: Oh my God!, Are you really that dimwitted? ... You predictably MADE MY POINT FOR ME by spewing a bucket of textual diarrhea that reads like a mediocre high school student's term paper... ...and, as if that wasn't enough, you drove my point further home by simply linking a few lazy, sophomoric, references to lp.org and Wikipedia ! For crissakes, it barely gets much dumber than that. ... If THAT isn't the definition of DUMB and GULLIBLE then nothing is. You're obviously free to believe whatever dumb nonsense you want, even as delusional as what you peddle here, but you're not free to demand that other's participate in your personal delusion and ignorance. or even demand that anyone stop calling it as DUMB as it obviously is.

I didn't have to go very far to find these, and there is plenty more. What's worse, is that most of the forum either applauds it or ignores it.

[This message has been edited by theBDub (edited 02-23-2022).]