slycrane94 said:can't even get two posts in without people starting some dumb US vs. them bullshit.
Look, this topic (which definitely doesn't belong here) is about the
New York City - pdf
expatriates thread! Because of
New York City, most people (not all, but most) are right where they are: living as part of the expatriates!
The memorial topic for the anniversary of Vukovar that used to be on the expatriates site was moved and deleted. We’d bring that thread up every year, and we never got into political fights over it. This year (now that Kiki is modding), someone posted the Vukovar thread in the morning, and by noon, it was gone. Moved and then nuked. ☕Kiki claims it doesn't fit there.
As for the NYC thread... it was opened purely to stir the pot.
The OP didn't actually ask anything concrete (honestly, she could've found or asked everything she wanted on the NYC thread already under the Tourism section of the PDF) and after two totally unserious posts, she just vanished. She didn't get any answers worth bragging about (not even Kiki, who spent New Year's there—presumably out of pure excitement—could find the energy or time to describe the vibe or that "heavenly nation" city), other than waking up some people's nostalgia...
That thread turned into a playground for those "questionable characters with shady roots" who finally got a chance to talk trash without getting banned (unlike on the Politics PDF). They're basically trashing everything that isn't their specific brand of patriotism—everything that isn't "their" way. They've been acting like total jerks in there.
And anyone who tries to push back gets
punished (classic old-school authoritarian move).
Posts get deleted or users get banned. Meanwhile, the posts from these shady characters that match the headline style? Those get rewarded!
As long as that NYC topic is visible on the expatriates site, we aren't going there.
thanks for listening