Is Boards.ie complicit?

OP has left the building but will rereg soon, and thus become part what he described as a problem.

The politics forum is a waste for the most part. Interesting topics are buried with pages after pages of posters responding to the same old bollox from reregs. As I’ve pointed out a few times, new accounts can’t post rubbish about Liverpool, Man U etc on the soccer forum, but spreading toxic ideological ****e on politics is grand. There seems to be zero desire to counter it.

TBH you're always going to get a dolly mixture of ppl on a forum such as this( ignore function needed) but personally I find boards informative- interesting- great craic at times,and v helpful

Unearthly wrote: »

Strange thread.

Always wondered why people felt they were important enough to announce their account closure

There is a word for it. And some Chat Forums even have a whole culture around it and being highly amused by it.

emo72 wrote: »

If the left wasnt so overbearingly pontificating these days there would be no right.

The left is even pushing lefties to the right.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day everybody!

I've always been a leftie, even far leftie tbh (check my posting history as far back as the late 2000s if ye want evidence) but I completely and totally agree with this statement. The alt-left as I like to call it, or the SJW-left as it's often described, adopted an extremely toxic "you either agree with us 100% or you're a worthless subhuman piece of sh!t" attitude towards political opposition, and the utter intolerance of dissent is so infuriatingly arrogant that many former lefties I know now identify as conservative. To take one ludicrous example, in the 1990s and the 2000s, the left advocated for unfettered free speech while the right opposed it on religions / family / sexual morality grounds, and since the early 2010s, this has flipped around entirely, with the left now supporting large scale censorship and promoting the idea that "wrongthink" is an actual thing that exists and should be punished, while the right now cries for freedom of expression as they are currently the ones being denied it.

I've probably posted this anecdote too often, but I predicted the victory of both Brexit and Trump long before either was taken seriously as a realistic possibility by the media (we're talking Autumn 2015 or even earlier) - solely on the grounds that the mainstream left had no actual positive arguments in favour of either Remain or Clinton respectively, it was just "do what we tell you, or it means you're a geriatric, racist, uneducated, ignorant and worthless human being". In my view, nothing exemplified how much the mainstream left lost touch with political freedom than all the commentary on social media the day after Brexit passed, blaming the Boomer generation and actually suggesting that "there should be an upper age limit to vote in referenda because old people won't live long enough to suffer the consequences" and other such vile "we lost and didn't have a majority, so let's change the rules to make sure we win next time even if we still don't have a majority" bullsh!t.

It really saddens me that this is how everything has ended up. I hate the fact that I have to come across as constantly taking the side of the alt-right just because it's become so unthinkable to suggest that they are entitled to set out their stall and express their political beliefs without consequence or persecution, just like everyone else. That should be an extremely basic tenet of a democratic society, not a controversial notion which results in drama and accusations of actually supporting the views one merely defends the right of others to hold.

The funny thing is, this is often dismissed as "ah you're just getting more conservative as you're getting older" but it's not the case, as the content of my (and other lefties in a similar position) beliefs hasn't actually changed at all. The only thing that's changed is the political alignment of those views - what used to be endorsed by the left and attacked by the right is now attacked by the left and endorsed by the right. And that's bizarre.

sebastian zoe wrote: »

Boards of a feather flock together, the site is one big clique, you do not allow new members here who do not agree with the viewpoint of the clique.
Certain subjects are sacred cows, there can be no debate about them, the mods have decided they and the clique are 100% correct and no alternative opinion will be allowed.
You all know this to be true but won’t do anything about it, hence the dwindling popularity of the site.

Observe as i get banned for this innocuous but truthful post

I just stay out of politics religion and sociology, as much as I can unless I have my fact's absolutely right.

Trying not to use my emotions and mix it up with opinions then I'm liable for the dungeon.

It's not easy sometimes but it's good to be able to have self control, survival of the fittest and all that...

My new CEO suggested working smarter is better than working harder, it set a seed in me...