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| paulca:
Apparently you can't use the word "Doughnut" (or Donut for the new world) as it offends fat police men. |
| magic:
--- Quote from: Simon on July 24, 2020, 07:02:05 am ---You are very wrong. You have obviously missed what most of this thread is about and are advocating extreme polarization. So I have to either be a narcissistic right wing fanatic or a lefty woke fanatic. --- End quote --- I think most of this thread is about "if we just stop being extremists and get out of each others way, we will all get along". I offer my suggestion that there are people who don't think like that and don't want any of that, that there may be more of them than you anticipate and that they aren't going to make your life easy. --- Quote from: SerieZ on July 24, 2020, 07:03:44 am ---Being against censorship does not make you a "centrist". That is just one of the typical slander of the extremist. --- End quote --- Not really sure what you mean. I kinda mocked people who use the "centrist" label as having no spine or hard opinion on anything. I wouldn't say in the same sentence that fighting censorship makes you a centrist. That's libertarians' job. This was response to a post about hypothetical "centrist resistance to the PC culture", which I consider a thing of impossibility. The "centrist" label is alternately used by: people who just want to be left alone and won't stand for anything, agitators of all creeds who want to convince the former that they are "just like you". --- Quote from: SerieZ on July 24, 2020, 07:03:44 am ---What is funny to me how sure of yourself you are when typing so much bollocks all the time. :-// --- End quote --- As much confidence as those who promised us the success of color revolutions or that Adolf Trump and Brexit will never happen. I could give more examples but not interested in starting more flamewar than necessary because somebody will inevitably argue that those things weren't "bollocks". --- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on July 24, 2020, 07:13:37 am ---God bless you for having the courage to offer publicly an analysis of what is happening in the U.S. Further, it warms my cold, dead, black heart that you summarized the whole situation so concisely. --- End quote --- Their situation really boils down to having "deconstructed" all their intolerance and no longer having a common and universally accepted concept of what they tolerate and what they don't. Wishful thinking will do that to a society. --- Quote from: Siwastaja on July 24, 2020, 07:32:52 am ---By announcing yourself as "middle", what you really are doing is desperately trying to get acceptance from both the people more "left" and "right" to you. You are not getting such acceptance from either far end, though. --- End quote --- I don't always agree with you but at least you seem to understand the concept of minding your own business instead of playing god, good for you. |
| Simon:
From what I am told you need a bit of left and right to be successful, which i agree with. No point in "hating capitalism" it's how innovation is spawned but uncontrolled capitalism also spells disaster. It's not a case of not having an opinion on either, it's recognizing that capitalism is OK with controls in place. |
| SerieZ:
--- Quote from: magic on July 24, 2020, 08:14:43 am ---Not really sure what you mean. I kinda mocked people who use the "centrist" label as having no spine or hard opinion on anything. I wouldn't say in the same sentence that fighting censorship makes you a centrist. That's libertarians' job. This was response to a post about hypothetical "centrist resistance to the PC culture", which I consider a thing of impossibility. The "centrist" label is alternately used by: people who just want to be left alone and won't stand for anything, agitators of all creeds who want to convince the former that they are "just like you". --- End quote --- I am sure a shift of the Overton window is all what it needs to end PC Culture and just like you said what needs to happen is for the average "centrist" to start feeling uncomfortable. Hey, even Chomsky came out of his retirement to say that this cancel culture thingy is quite wrong. Makes me wonder if the leftist university elites are starting to realize they pushed a little bit to hard. Or maybe I am wrong we are all Doomed. lmao. I do apologize for my snarky reply tho, I think my Judgement got clouded by previous posts of yours. :-// --- Quote from: Simon on July 24, 2020, 07:33:38 am --- --- Quote from: SerieZ on July 24, 2020, 07:03:44 am ---Being against censorship does not make you a "centrist". That is just one of the typical slander of the extremist. What is funny to me how sure of yourself you are when typing so much bollocks all the time. :-// --- End quote --- Who are you talking about? who is against censorship? I thought that was the point of this topic? So if i am against censorship of the words that the woke left want me to not use does that make me right wing? Or a living breathing human with a brain of my own? --- End quote --- I was talking to the self proclaimed Sociopath above your post. Sorry, should have used quotes. |
| lukego:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 24, 2020, 06:11:11 am ---You have to go into the New Replies or Unread Topics list to see it. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/unread/ or https://www.eevblog.com/forum/unreadreplies/ I don't see it either on the top of this thread for example, I don't know why, it should be availabel on every thread so you can just nuke it. --- End quote --- Thanks for the tip. I don't have that button on any threads and have looked pretty hard for such a thing several times in the past. The only such button I have is the "Mark all messages as unread." The tips from other posters haven't worked either (I haven't enabled notifications on any of these threads, I'm not clicking any links in emails, I don't have moderation settings available on my profile, etc.) I'm using the full UI like in the screenshot and not the mobile version. It would sure be a nice feature to have. |
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