Let's Get Rid of the Politics Forum
 

Because it is a breeding ground for douchebaggery and team hatred.

It makes people I like look like dicks. It spills over into the rest of the house, and sucks in general. Nothing you politics thread posting dickholes says is going to change the mind of the other dickhole you're arguing with's mind in any way....so Shut The Fuck Up and Hug. We are smart enough to know we shouldn't argue about religion......why do you argue about Politics?

This is NOT(or at least didn't used to be) a politics forum. Go scratch that itch somewhere else! This is a coffee shop with no coffee and no shop! It is a Forum about nothing. It's a Pub where your friends hang out......

You might say that I have no right to attempt to limit discussion. you might say that I have no right to tell you what you should discuss. you might say that i have no right to kill a hobo...... but I say unto thee.....

you're all being intolerably irritating.


don't make me post a poll.

No.

shut up. this is serious business

lol
That was so oratorical.

Yeah, you should run for office or something. I'd vote for ya!

Politically Correct Makeover
 

Let's change the forum name and forum title from:

Politics
How humans control the powers that control them

To:

Town Hall Meeting
A friendly little forum, with no town and no hall to get run out of

I've never been in the politics forum because I fear it would irritate me. Seems like I'm doing the right thing (for me). It's true that sometimes the politics seeps through into other forums but I can usually see which threads are heading that way and I stop reading them, too ...

If we don't have the Politics forum then every forum becomes political:P

Truth. No-one is learning anything in politics right now, everyone is so convinced that they are right.

One thing I love about this place is that people in the Cellar have sometimes changed my long held political beliefs with their thoughtful posts. Unfortunately, it hasn't happened in about 3 years or so. The politics forum is a big pile of shit now, and it's because the handful of the most prolific posters there have no apparent desire to learn. Who knows? Maybe I'm looking at the past with rose colored glasses. All I know is that I mostly scroll past the posts of the regulars in the politics forums, looking for anything anyone else has to say.

I don't want to be Hubris Boy, and I apologize if I come off that way.

If you want to improve the Politics forum, post there.

Yeah, I know. I've given the same advice to others.

I don't want to improve the politics forum.

I don't read it because it's full of crackpot posts, and therefore I avoid most of the assholery over it. This is what I prefer, but some people revel in the assholery and debate, and that's their privilege.

It's a vehicle for the hateful.