[This message has been edited by 2.5 (edited 06-14-2021).]

"Feel free" . . . I read that as "Why (the heck) don't you . . ."

It wasn't really part of the framework that you (2.5) set up there, of "About the narrative that the events of January 6 were part of an insurrection . . ." I thought of this as more comical than anything else. With the wine. And this guy who says he's going to compete for a U.S. House seat and will (soon?) figure out what ideas he wants to present with his candidacy.

But there's a deeper truth. I made it a New Topic because--whether it's a rational thought or not--I thought a New Topic might pull in a "customer" or two that would otherwise just scroll past the original "insurrection narrative" Topic that was already set up.

Threads about other threads? Starting new threads about already existing threads? That somewhat famous prohibition or "No No" from the Possting Guidelines?

I think there's something even worse than that. The forum flatlining. For the last few days before this one, it seemed like the only Politics on the forum was between "sourmash", "randye" and myself. And since one of that threesome almost entirely ignores another one of that threesome . . . well, it doesn't exactly shape up as "lively" discussion.

The idea of an Ignore function for the forum software has been discussed before, from time to time. Say--and this is just hypothetical--if I wanted to be able to select on forum member "randye" and have the forum automatically block any public messages or posts from that account from appearing on my video monitor. But who's to say that Cliff Pennock should do "this" or "that" to tamper any further with the forum software?

I have my small (very small) bag of hacks or "tricks" that I use to navigate and interact with the forum without seeing (for the most part) what I don't want to see.

Feel free to PM me if you want to have this "priceless" technical assistance.

[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 06-14-2021).]

quote Originally posted by rinselberg: "Feel free" . . . I read that as "Why (the heck) don't you . . ." Threads about other threads? Starting new threads about already existing threads? That somewhat famous prohibition or "No No" from the Possting Guidelines? I think there's something even worse than that. The forum flatlining.

For all of the hooting, complaining and outright bullshitting you do about "posting rules" you sure as hell don't bat an eye about violating them yourself.

In fact you even acknowledge that the rule exists and THEN you "rationalize" why you intentionally violate it while simultaneously flipping your middle finger at Cliff Pennock while you pretend that it's YOUR prerogative to decide what is "best for the forum".

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[This message has been edited by randye (edited 06-15-2021).]

This is my favorite January 6-related thread:
https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum6/HTML/126609.html

It's a sendup of the idea of deploying exacting legal terminology to characterize the events of January 6.

And yet, in one fell swoop, it also advances the story of the ongoing effort by investigators and prosecutors to hold January 6 wrongdoers to account with facts-based reportage.

It's an effort to memorialize January 6 in much the same way that Apocalypse Now memorialized the American involvement in Vietnam.


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[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 06-15-2021).]