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ArtOfCode

Oct 20, 2016 17:00

This room has taken political discussion too far, and it's turned into mudslinging. That's not okay, and it stops, or this room does.

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MetaEd

Oct 20, 2016 17:03

(Rand al'Thor) Just because you're all nice to each other (the people in the room) doesn't mean the Be Nice policy is being followed.

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Terriblefan

Oct 11, 2016 17:11

Everyone's a puppet, you just need to know how to pull their strings.

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Jefromi

Oct 20, 2016 17:44

I hate to have to say this, but StackExchange has higher standards for discourse than the current US presidential election. You can generally still discuss what has been said, but it's not a good idea to repeat everything and make it your own, or to adopt the same general tone yourself.

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steelerfan

Oct 12, 2016 16:53

I think that certain people are so used to everyone falling all over them all of the time about how brilliant they are, it's difficult for them to see that they're wrong sometimes.

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steelerfan

Oct 6, 2016 14:38

@DrRDizzle GET OUT---------------->

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Rand al'Thor

Oct 3, 2016 18:06

@DrRDizzle I had to come in here just to refute this. If everybody votes for mainstream candidates because they don't think minor ones have a chance, nothing will ever change. And sometimes what people think is just a protest vote CAN end up winning, as you and I and the population of this country know only too well. I don't know how the US voting system works, but given the unpopularity of both Clinton and Trump, this election could be the best chance ever for a third candidate to win.

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Null

Oct 20, 2016 18:00

What is there left to discuss? Moderators + CMs + regular users have made it clear that you can't insult politicians, both in here and on Meta.SE. None of the answers on my MSE question have any downvotes at this time, and all of them say that such insults violate the Be Nice policy. Just stop insulting people and you'll be fine.

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ArtOfCode

Oct 20, 2016 17:28

The definitive answer: Shog9 says you have to be nice to everyone, including public figures.

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ArtOfCode

Oct 20, 2016 16:05

This room was placed in timeout for 1 hour; the topic of this room is "Discuss current events " - conversation should be limited to that topic.

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SQB

Oct 20, 2016 13:17

@Himarm Yes, salaries of people who do the charitable work. You wouldn't fault Doctors Without Borders to pay salaries to the doctors they employ, would you?

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Terriblefan

Oct 19, 2016 17:16

@Himarm Anyone who believes a word out of Hillary's mouth is gullible beyond belief. 30 years of the same old song, and they believe she changed her ways in the last 3?

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Skooba

Oct 17, 2016 13:10

Heck in the US people guilty of treason get to run for President.

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Himarm

Oct 14, 2016 13:55

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steelerfan

Oct 12, 2016 16:51

@Skooba And that's fine and good, but, if someone disagrees with you, they shouldn't be made to feel like a criminal and to be spoken to that way. I felt really bad for that guy that posted that. He had no ill will and he was trying to speak his piece on it. He was just shut down. I was really disappointed with the way that he was treated.

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Terriblefan

Oct 11, 2016 16:14

People are weird.

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steelerfan

Oct 6, 2016 14:37

OMG. Stop picking on poor Rand ;-(

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Himarm

Sep 26, 2016 20:08

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Terriblefan

Sep 12, 2016 14:22

@DrRDizzle See, this is precisely why this election is BS. Trump says stupid crap all the time, but the media reports snippets out of context and soon you have people everywhere repeating without knowledge.

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AncientSwordRage

Jul 15, 2016 21:24

World why you no black and white

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Skooba

Jul 8, 2016 18:57

yes. I hate "white guilt"

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KyloRen

Oct 20, 2016 13:30

I feel sorry for you guys right now.

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KyloRen

Oct 20, 2016 13:26

Why is this called the news room?

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Dr R Dizzle

Oct 20, 2016 13:23

@Skooba That is 100% false. Registered charities almost all have employees as well as volunteers. They are still charities.

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Terriblefan

Oct 19, 2016 19:55

@Skooba It's a city in Syria. That's important to know because the paid troll was paid to troll about it, despite the guys who paid them to troll being the same people who destabilized the region.

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ArtOfCode

Oct 19, 2016 19:39

I appreciate you're annoyed, but I've seen both sides of this story and neither of them is going to win. Arguing ain't going to achieve anything.

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Rand al'Thor

Oct 19, 2016 19:22

@Terriblefan To think that might be a dig at you is, frankly, ridiculous. He and DVK are quite right - the blog should have a clear and recognisable name, not some memetic in-joke name that new users won't get.

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Terriblefan

Oct 19, 2016 17:21

@steelerfan To be clear, I don't understand why he feels the need to interject in our stack, against my ideas, when he doesn't even feel the need to be a part of our stack.

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Terriblefan

Oct 18, 2016 23:12

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Terriblefan

Oct 17, 2016 20:31

Trash is the most vile hive of scum and villainy on the internet.

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steelerfan

Oct 17, 2016 19:22

Okay. I will stop complaining. I feel bad when I feel like I am talking behind someone's back. Some people I just leave when they're around, but, I still don't want to talk about them behind their back. Sometimes I need t remember that.

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Rand al'Thor

Oct 15, 2016 19:51

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steelerfan

Oct 12, 2016 16:39

Mild kerfuffle last night. It was handled poorly, imo. Certain people acting like petulant children.

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Terriblefan

Oct 12, 2016 16:06

Another not-entirely-one-sided-hitpiece article from Cracked. Guess their turn to biased political articles didn't work out for their readership numbers.

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Himarm

Oct 10, 2016 20:29

that seems to just fit the population statistics

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Himarm

Oct 10, 2016 20:17

thats a whisle blower being silenced

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Terriblefan

Oct 10, 2016 20:08

Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal

Widespread organized child sexual abuse took place in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, between 1997 and 2013. Local investigations into the abuse began in 1999, although some reports were never finalised or made public by the authorities. In 2010, five men of Pakistani heritage were found guilty of a series of sexual offences against girls as young as twelve. A subsequent investigation by The Times reported that the child sex exploitation was much more widespread, and the Home Affairs Select Committee criticised the South Yorkshire Police force and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council for...

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Terriblefan

Oct 10, 2016 19:59

The basic idea of "don't let in people with a much higher chance of being terrorists" is solid logic. Everything else is politics.

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Rand al'Thor

Oct 10, 2016 18:41

@Terriblefan I don't even know who the Skeptics mods are. But if you call people dicks and get flagged for it, I'd be inclined to say that's your fault and not the flagger's fault.

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Himarm

Oct 10, 2016 18:34

@SQB shes like, the kingpin of corrupt politicians.

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Himarm

Oct 10, 2016 15:46

its our private mock hillary chat room

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Himarm

Oct 7, 2016 17:26

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Rand al'Thor

Oct 7, 2016 13:14

@Skooba Yes, I admit it. My real surname is Omguy.

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Skooba

Oct 7, 2016 13:13

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steelerfan

Oct 6, 2016 14:22

This room frightens me ;)

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Skooba

Oct 5, 2016 17:10

@Himarm pretty much, people say she is qualified because of time in the senate and as SoS but everything she did there is opposite of what she says she will do now

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Himarm

Oct 5, 2016 17:05

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steelerfan

Oct 4, 2016 20:23

I feel like Skooba's wife ;)

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Himarm

Sep 28, 2016 19:45

if a senator drops a "i didnt actually read it" they should just get fired

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steelerfan

Sep 27, 2016 17:34

The founders won't be considered founders anymore after too long. People just need to stop being pu**ies and stand up for what they believe in and stop letting themselves be bullied by this crap.

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