"we just removed the (for some people offending) recent forum topics from our homepage."

we reserve the right to discourage people from discussions because we can make the word "polite" can be used to mean anything we want it to.

We will say that both sides are subject to the rules but fail when we inevitably show our bias in trying to police the large amount of content here.

@raphjd:

We all know that politics can get heated, so there is some leeway in the general rule regarding "polite disagreement".

Popping into a thread for the sole purpose to flame, is a NO NO.

Popping into a thread for the sole purpose to complain that the thread exists, is a NO NO.

Popping into a thread to complain that the POLITICS section exists, is a NO NO.

Making false reports about staff or another user, is a NO NO.   If you claim that someone called you a "faggot nigger", you had better have proof.  Remember, I can see the original posts and edited posts.

If you routinely post nothing but childish comments that do nothing to further the discussion, that is a NO NO.

If you can't or won't further the discussion, then ignore this section.

If you want to call your "enemy" a cunt or the like, take it elsewhere.

Don't be petty.  A disagreement here should not mean that you refuse to fulfill a re-seed request.   Nor should it mean you get into a flame fest in the cooking section.

NEITHER SIDE IS EXEMPT FROM THE RULES.

Don't expect me to see every offending post, use the report button.

@Frederick:

A whacko professor thinks that removing a banner from a wall of one's hotel justifies being severely tortured, sentenced to 15 years hard labor, and left in a vegetative coma for over a year until he ultimately died.

Kathy Dettwyler, an anthropology professor, wrote Tuesday that Warmbier was "typical of a mindset of a lot of the young, white, rich, clueless males who come into my classes."

I would suggest handing in homework assignments on time in that bitch's class!
Soon Kathy Dettwyler will be like school in the summertime.. "no class!"  Hey Hey Hey! (My Cosby Kids homage).

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/professor-otto-warmbier-got-%E2%80%98what-he-deserved%E2%80%99/ar-BBD66To?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

that's because the professor is a douche.  People lead short meaningless lives and some are so intimidated by it that they have to put partisan bullshit and "white privilege" in to situations because they need to reinforce their cult somehow.

@aadam101:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/domestic-terrorism-white-supremacists-islamist-extremists_us_594c46e4e4b0da2c731a84df

"When it comes to domestic terrorism in America, the numbers don’t lie: Far-right extremists are behind far more plots and attacks than Islamist extremists.

There were almost twice as many terrorist incidents by right-wing extremists as by Islamist extremists in the U.S. from 2008 to 2016, according to a new report from The Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund and The Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal."

I've been saying it for months.  The GOP is a terrorist group hell-bent on destroying America.  Their healthcare bill will kill far more Americans than some little group like ISIS.

that's a lie. and you know it.

hell they even lied about the numbers of the Pulse shooting but hey go a head be a ******* ****** i can't stop you. meanwhile the rest of us that have sex with men aren't going to use hey X is bad but Y is SOOO much worse as a way to downplay Terrorism.

You stand up to the nasty religious right with all their words and pearl clutching,  you brave trooper.

:police:  We'll have none of that please. :police:

@Frederick:

This democratic doofus  wishes that the republican representative shot on a baseball field last week had been killed.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/caught-on-tape-dem-official-says-hes-glad-scalise-got-shot/ar-BBD5kFE?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

yes, but they're killed by the regressive left of today by being called a racist.

they're praising the death of someone who died because they need that "trump is bad" clickbait. Nevermind that let's accept muslims who love to talk Taqiya and have no shame in wanting to kill us.

@sutieday:

Donald Trump tweeted about the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015 about 3½ hours after they occurred. The following month, he tweeted about the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., 90 minutes after the violence began. It took fewer than 12 hours from the time an EgyptAir flight went missing in May 2016 for Trump to speculate publicly that the attack was terror-related. More than a year later, it’s still not clear what happened to the plane.

When terrorists drove a van into a crowd on London Bridge earlier this month, Trump tweeted about the need to be “smart, vigilant and tough” even before authorities identified terror as the motive behind the attack.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/19/why-wont-donald-trump-rush-to-tweet-criticism-of-attacks-against-muslims/

i dunno, when will you realize why there will never be a pride parade in Damascus?

@Frederick:

@raphjd:

Snowden and Manning are heroes.

What whistleblower channels were/are open to them?   Not a single one, because it's the government against it's own people.

They proved Obama was a complete liar, when he promised to end GWB era mass spying.   They also proved that Obama lied about no bid contracts and other things.   I think this is why virtually all liberals hate them.

I wouldn't go heaping praise on people like Snowden, Manning, and Assange..  because they tend to be self-serving, arrogant snots..   
but it is quite interesting that when truth and secrets are revealed, it's almost always the liberals that wind up looking very bad.  By far, the majority of corruption, hypocrisy, and fraud is perpetrated by the left.

self serving? you mean the darling of the left when they published the bush e-0mails now the pariah  and "totally working with putin" when they released the DNC emails… while still exposing shit on Putin... is self serving? the people who are very much at risk of losing any concept of freedom (at least prisoners have rights) are self serving?

what kind of faggot are you?

@raphjd:

The OP is an idiot.   He thinks he posted something that makes conservatives look bad.

Too dumb to know it's his own side that are making the death threats and violence.

remember when the liberal party was for defending free speech no matter what? what about the ACLU?

the thing about restricting speech or monuments is who gets to decide? if it's only acceptable in a certain time or place who gets to decide that? Bill Cosby?

@magentas:

Raphhd, you have some serious mental issues and need to see a therapist.

Your concept of what liberals are and what we do has NO relation to liberals at all- it is the fabrication of the right-wing propaganda that has poisoned you.

This is especially shocking since, as a gay man, the Conservatives are the ones who take the "Moral High Ground" against YOU.

Conservatives are the ones who use violence, conservatives are the ones who consider themselves to be holier than thou and condemn everyone different from them.

WAKE UP.

umm yes they are. it's like saying islamic terrorism has nothing to do with islam. and that Chechnia is russia when it's pretty much sharia law.

you're just trying to do some mental acrobatics to stick with the democrats, the party of the KKK and voted against civil right many times. i mean one of your talking points is how racist the republicans were.

but hey ANYTHING to be partisan tard am i rite?

@Drwas:

After admitting to CNN that he did not read the House bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) told the Buffalo News that he was unaware the bill would nix funding for a health care program in New York.

When a reporter for the Buffalo News told Collins that the American Health Care Act would eliminate funding for an optional program adopted only by New York and Minnesota called the Essential Plan, Collins replied, “Explain that to me.”

http://buffalonews.com/2017/05/04/collins-says-didnt-read-health-bill-proves/

then how did they get insured and treated before obamacare?

i can see it now IN THE DARK YEAR OF 2006 EVERYONE WAS DYING. DUN DUN DUN

you do know that democrat shills do hijack message boards like this, right? oh and how about those democratic cuts to housing and mental health treatment?

@Drwas:

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) -

After more than a week of protests and arrests, city workers put up a fence Wednesday around the Jefferson Davis monument in Mid City.

The contractor, who was paid $300 to drop the fence off, said he had no idea he was dropping off fencing to be erected around the monument. And he said since his workers dropped off the fencing, he has gotten death threats and his home address has been published online.

The contractor said someone called his company asking him to pick up fencing on the westbank and drop it off at Canal and S. Jefferson Davis Parkway.

He said after the job was completed, his company's phone line was flooded with calls and threats from people across the country.

"Specifically, they said they were going to burn me, they were going to burn my trucks, they were going to come to my yard and protest, they're not gonna let my trucks leave the yard, they going to protest all day long,  and one woman from Mississippi specifically said she's going to make sure that I'm going to get burned and my truck is going to get burned. That's how bad it is," the contractor said.

http://www.fox8live.com/story/35347547/contractor-says-hes-gotten-death-threats-over-monument-fencing

Ah, the tolerant right!

wait. but antifa is totally ok and blm aren't terrorists.  this is you trying to flip the script on this and failing miserably. TRUMP SO EBIL.

now. death threats aside. are you trying to erase the ignoble past of slavery? i find it ironic that the liberal party used to stand for flag burning to protect the freedom it represented. protecting all speech no matter how horrible because authority sucks?