Posts by Susan Price30

Steven Martinez13 said:One post on this thread—not the one we're discussing right now—was actually removed. I won't recap what it said, because it was specifically because of that content that I ended up coming over to this discussion. It wasn't your typical rant filled with accusations of being a communist, a neo-Nazi, or a fascist (which people tend to throw around quite loosely during heated debates here, regardless of which side they're on)... but rather its substance that drew me in.

And let's not forget—despite usually being a mild and polite contributor on the Politics forum—Creeping Death was slapped with a 500-point hate speech penalty just because someone managed to bait him. Meanwhile, that same user is still free to post whatever they want, even after several similar instances of harassing those with different views without facing a ban.

That's all from me.

Sam Alvarez4 said:I won't get into the specifics.
But it’s telling that none of you even brought up the other guy (linked).

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In the first instance, one of the mods didn't just delete or archive that post—which some claim wasn't even inappropriate—but actually went in and edited the so-called 'post.'

The other moderator above claims a warning was issued (though why, nobody knows), and it clearly has nothing to do with that specific post or this thread.

All of this happened right after an expedited permanent ban reversal—so it's a completely different situation from what you're writing about and using as an example. And if possible, let's try to avoid the 'heavy language,' please, unless you want things to blow up. Thanks.

Jack Moore90 said:They couldn't just let him walk away without a permanent ban. Something about him has been off for a long time now. He only got banned because he shares the exact same ideology as those moderators. It's as simple as that. They can try to ignore the reality, but everyone saw what was happening.

By the way, it wasn't the Politics mods who issued his ban.

(And none of them were acting welcoming or "excited" about him, except for one guy over there)

At least based on what I've seen in the threads, though I haven't been following that specific PDF for a while now.

rowdytiger13 said:He actually got a warning on that thread for being abusive.

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The reported post looks like a blatant insult and a clear attempt at provocation.
(And there seems to be more than one post using that same tone.)

> By what right is a user allowed to harass all the other users across these threads ?

It’s happening pretty much constantly, isn't it—one way or another?

Is it enough to just show up to the site once in a while, act polite toward the admins, and call it even? Does that suddenly "justify" the harassment of other users throughout the various threads and subforums?

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Well, they won't get away with it. As long as people keep posting things like "everything is fine," others will keep pushing back... and I assume that's actually the point of moderation: to protect the users and the discussions from that kind of behavior. Even if it requires some bias to make it happen.

I’ve been wanting to bring up this one particular user for a while now—specifically regarding their disruptive way of writing and how they degrade discussions over in the Politics subforum. If I may, I'd like to expand on this topic.

And I’m not talking about the moderators there (honestly, I don't even care why they tolerate this without taking action), but rather the admins and supermods. So, here is the situation...

Every single post made by this user firstly,

1. focuses on exactly what nobody is encouraged to discuss in the Politics section: stories about "partisans," "Axis collaborators," or those "traitorous snakes" compared to Tito, or claims like: 'Vatican City gave a passport to Ante Pavelić' )??? 😁 and similar "trolling nonsense" and chatter that feels purely like trolling because it lacks any actual arguments, is often factually incorrect, and is phrased specifically to ramp up tensions in a debate.

or secondly

2. the posts (within this same subforum, I won't bother reading anything else) are generally just personal attacks against other users—classic ad hominem, really. And they are often incredibly rude.

Just a few recent examples of the first issue:

Right here,

You really should check out the History subforum; it’s the most amazing part of this site.
Over there, people openly glorify Adolf Hitler and his crew.

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Caligula says: Check out post There is plenty of material available on this, including documentaries. The point being that if the first record said 4 million (!) and the final version said 1.5 million, that "six" is still treated as sacred and legally protected. It seems someone skipped math class in elementary school. .... Whether it's five or six—it doesn't mean a damn thing... Nothing more disgusting has ever been captured on camera than the German death factories. Quote: ex anais said:Check out post Yeah, these folks started out with good intentions to establish the numbers. Expert after expert. Historical revisionists trying to restore some sense of sanctity to a criminal regime. At this rate, these "experts" could start an orchestra and play for Mala Florama... Quote: Silajn said:Check out post I paraphrased a section from this Vukic article For Easter 1942, a day of freedom was granted. The prisoners were given a special meal consisting of boiled eggs and a slice of bacon. The bread was baked in a large bakery, shared by both the Axis soldiers and the prisoners. Miletich was soon transferred from the chain gang to serve as a prisoner in the camp hospital at Auschwitz. "There was enough food there to last a lifetime. A real 'Esplanade.' I ate more during those months than I did in three lifetimes," Miletich told the author of this feature in Washington, D.C., in February 2012. It seems things are being researched quite thoroughly. A lovely piece from a wonderful church newsletter. Even today, people continue to mourn priests who were, quite frankly, lost without any possible justification. Let's not forget—Vatican City helped facilitate travel for both Josef Mengele and Ante Pavelić by providing them with passports. Jesus, come back—and bring a broom, because things have gotten pretty messy around here lately. Quote: rowdytiger13 said:Check out this post. I have described exactly how. It won't fly. We aren't the USA. We chose a different path. . I pray to God we never become anything like Joseph. Or Russia. And certainly not Nazi Germany.

I can't stand neo-Nazis, but I have to admit that those North American agitators are reaching all the way over here too...

We messed up twice with Yugoslavia—thanks a lot. Even an octopus learns from its mistakes.

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Quote: Caligula says: Check out this post I believe these first six pages have made one thing abundantly clear: an association like this is absolutely essential. We need it to finally establish the facts and put an end to the corruption, the bidding wars, and the constant twisting of the truth. Absolutely! What is there left to say about this mess? Unemployment, the economy, poverty, and a total lack of hope... it's just exhausting. We already had a discussion over on PK about how poorly disguised that nationalist ideology really is—not my own words, just a term used to describe that user's entire body of work. Everyone get to soccer practice, let's get some training in! When all is said and done, our primary focus remains on tallying the casualties and counting the blood spilled; everything else is merely secondary. Quote: Sam Alvarez4 said:Check out the post Since when did Auschwitz become nothing more than a "war collection and labor camp"? Back when those partisans turned into cavemen and the Nazis became nothing more than cellists... Quote: plus.nesto said:Check out the post. Uncovering the absolute truth without any manipulation is always in the best interest of honoring the victims. Any kind of controversy only serves to undermine that. I agree with you, though I suspect we'll never truly uncover the full truth. There is simply too much that the Mississippi has swept away. In any case, that myth about a hundred million people being slaughtered by those satanic Nazis has been completely debunked. Quote: Beyond the sheer number of casualties, the mass graves discovered within the camp complex remain a deeply controversial subject regarding the actions taken by the American authorities following the war. All those controversies need to be cleared up. There isn't much controversy to speak of here. There was a prison in Old Gravelton where they interrogated—read: beat the hell out of—anyone suspected of collaborating with the occupiers. My grandfather had his kidneys pulverized by those militia brats, though they didn't carry out systematic executions there, unless you count some rogue bastard having a particularly heavy hand. Quote: no_surrender said:Check out post Look, to be clear, my people were on the American side during the Nazi Germany era. Are you implying they were partisans? If so, why all the vitriol against them? Quote: My high school history teacher was Mladen Ivezić, who wrote several books on Auschwitz that dismantled the communist myths about the camp that were forced upon us for 45 years. That is where I draw my knowledge and information. And where do you get yours? Good grief... I’ve always wondered what kind of idiots turn potentially promising kids into radical neo-Nazis—it's usually guys like Professor Occultist... Quote: no_surrender said:Check out post In my view, if the actual truth about Auschwitz and the real number of victims were established, the communist regime would lose their primary weapon used against American patriots since 1945. Their whole narrative would collapse. How could they even bother talking about those fascist vermin at the Knesset then? I agree that we should strike those fascist terms from our vocabulary. After all, it's more accurate to refer to them as worms, liquids, or microorganisms... A "vermin" isn't a joke; you have to watch out for them. As for these scumbags, they just need to be crushed... Quote: Sam Alvarez4 said:Check out post Weren't those numbers confirmed by the Reagan administration and later? edit. The Jasenovac Research Institute is just propaganda. Nobody takes them seriously. Well, damn, the neo-fascists take them seriously. They and the Chetniks always played nice together...

---- I'll provide more examples of ad hominem attacks and writing styles where people aggressively target their interlocutors....

And yeah, honestly, nobody would mind if someone slipped up once in a while—it happens to everyone. But when this becomes someone's entire body of work on a single (let's say, serious) subforum, then what? It seems like there's an issue, if you ask me.

Charles Fox10 said:Just handle the TV registration, and we'll take it from there.

I truly value your hard work and good intentions (and honestly, as a moderator of unquestionable integrity, I’d say you’re actually the most beloved mod on Politics), but... last time there was an issue regarding— well, as a rule, it is difficult to prove who is a clone and who isn't; are you guys aware of how hard it is to determine that kind of thing?

On the 'Gender Violence and Discrimination' thread, it became a massive headache because people were constantly commenting about 'terror from clones.' There were even comments right on the thread itself suggesting that a 'clone would have to admit they are a clone' (referring to a banned user) before they could be banned for clearly violating forum rules. Like, seriously?

(And this happened specifically on that thread, by the way; someone actually wrote out which clone they were, and I think either Charles Fox10 or maybe rustydrifter10 finally issued the ban because it was someone who had already been permanently banned. And that happened several times.)

(By the way, I won't swear that he isn't still posting there under a new handle; you can tell by his extremely intense views and his specific writing style 😉—aside from everything else, of course, though I wouldn't know for sure.)

On another thread (Western North America + America and Visegrad, or whatever it was called a few days ago), the same thing happened again. There's serious suspicion among the participants that people are using multiple clones, which seriously violates the subforum rules and just confuses everyone involved.

(Plus, one participant actually admitted that their second post on the same thread was made under a different username, by the way.)

Then there's the Ukraine thread, where attention is constantly being diverted, and so on and so forth.

Actually, my suggestion would be that perhaps blue bird should step in—even if it's just for a set period—as a moderator for that subforum.

The reason is that she was precisely the one who solved an identical problem on the Religion board when something similar to what's happening on Politics was going on.

blue bird is excellent at that, especially when it comes to resolving issues quickly and effectively (specifically dealing with the way active users are 'terrorized' by clones, many of whom are just clones of previously banned members).

If not her, then at least let Meadow be a new moderator there.

Please, give us a proven, high-quality moderator over on Politics. 👍😁 (And maybe a little 'woman's touch' too, lol)

I think that would solve a lot of problems immediately...

Amy Brooks12 said:Thanks for the entertainment, but this guy is basically asking us to believe in things he can't even explain himself—things that religion has already had answers for ages.

Dr. Eben Alexander doesn't really come across as some heavenly messenger bringing about a "shift in the scientific community." Honestly, he feels more like a protagonist from a cheesy Hollywood movie where people constantly find ways to escape the wreckage of their old lives through grand acts of self-reinvention.

If these encounters with hyper-reality were legitimate, they should be based on the life you've actually lived leading up to that moment. I mean, if you're descending into hell, shouldn't you get a warning to fix your act if you don't want to end up stuck there forever? And the flip side—that feeling of merging with Love... we don't even need to go there.

But seriously, I don't get how Eben Alexander's "consciousness" guided him through a beautiful valley of butterflies during his seven-day "vision," considering the man had a history of medical malpractice and even lost his license to practice neurosurgery because of it!

What a jerk! Giving everyone this one-size-fits-all experience. EEK!

Fake prophet.

🤣 jerk, it is.

Colton Burpo: The boy who visited heaven

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Admin, please move me to the right thread if one exists. I’m curious about this and similar stories—do you actually believe in this stuff?

* btw I've never heard of this person. 🤷 Also, maybe explain a bit more about who we're talking about... I wouldn't have had any clue what was going on if Amy Brooks12 and Amary hadn't explained the situation and who was involved. 🙏

fadedcrane48 said:Screw everyone:
I honestly think we need to take a step back and look at how much this whole thing actually affects us—like, really look at it. I mean, maybe I’m overthinking things, but there’s just something about the way people are reacting that feels... off? It's like everyone is so caught up in their own little bubbles that they aren't seeing the bigger picture, you know? And then you have people like William Bennett53 jumping in with those intense takes—which, hey, fair enough, I get where he's coming from—but it still feels like we're missing the core issue here. It’s almost like we’re all just shouting into the void instead of actually having a real conversation. I guess what I’m trying to say is that if we don't start looking at the actual facts behind the history and naming of these events, we're just going to keep spinning our wheels. It’s kind of wild when you think about it—how one single event can trigger such a massive wave of emotion across the entire country. It’s messy, it’s complicated, and honestly, it’s probably a bit overwhelming for most of us. But I truly believe that if we could just slow down—just for a second—and stop being so reactive, we might actually get somewhere. Or maybe I'm just being overly optimistic, but I'd like to think there's a way through this without everyone losing their minds.

So, here’s my little explanation for everyone I’m supposedly telling to go screw themselves:
I don't know, maybe I'm just overthinking things—but I honestly feel like we’re missing the forest for the trees here. It seems like everyone is just jumping to conclusions without really digging into the actual context of how things developed. Like, if you look at the way people are reacting now versus how they were acting back during the American Civil War era, there's this weird disconnect, right? It’s almost like we’ve forgotten the actual history and naming of these events, which makes the current arguments feel a bit hollow to me. I guess what I'm trying to say is that emotions are running high, but that doesn't necessarily mean the logic holds up. People want quick answers—they want someone to blame immediately—but real situations are usually way more layered than that. It’s easy to get caught up in the noise, especially when everyone is shouting at once, but I think if we actually slowed down and looked at the nuances, we might see a different picture entirely. Just my two cents, though. I could be totally off base here.

Even though there wasn't much being said about this topic—and honestly, I don't think anyone really gave a damn about Jelena Rozga regardless of their political leanings—was Thomson actually worth anything to anyone?
So—out of nowhere—someone just drops a "screw Tomconovac" comment... (even though I know messing around with names or nicknames is technically against the rules here).

Here’s an example of how you might look at my supposed support for spreading hatred:I mean, I guess if we're being totally honest here—and I think we should be—it’s kind of hard to wrap your head around how much things have shifted since the American Civil War era compared to what we're seeing now. It’s just... different. Everything feels a bit more heightened, maybe? Looking back at how people used to talk about certain historical events, or even just the way we handle political debates today, there's this massive gap. Like, back then, the discourse was so much more grounded, I suppose. Now, it feels like everything is immediate and intense. It makes you wonder if we've lost that ability to just sit with an idea without immediately jumping to conclusions or getting caught up in the noise. Anyway, I'm just rambling, I know. But yeah, it's a lot to process when you really start digging into the history and naming of these conflicts and how they shape our current perspective. It’s definitely not as simple as it looks on the surface.

So, here’s the deal—this was a response to a post by your buddy Power Locko, and I made sure to stay completely on topic. Like, totally, absolutely on topic. But you went ahead and wiped my entire post without even giving me a reason why. Then, on my other post—the one you actually left up—you slapped me with a hate speech penalty, even though there wasn't a single shred of hate speech in there. I filed an appeal, and then you just changed the violation from hate speech to trolling... which, I guess, just feels like more proof that you guys are backing a specific political agenda by letting hate speech slide while targeting people like me.

I’m gonna drop an excerpt here from one of the moderator's posts—Power Locko—because honestly, it’s probably the clearest example of hate speech and incitement I've seen around here. In this specific quote, he actually ends up contradicting himself mid-sentence, though I guess he doesn't even realize he's doing it... he's just too blinded by all that hatred, I suppose.
Look, you deleted my response without even giving me an explanation—so I’m gonna ask you nicely to just put it back here in the debate. I really don't want to have to rewrite everything from memory, otherwise people might think I'm just making stuff up as I go along.
I think you can see that deleted post.
I'm also looking for an explanation as to why it was deleted—could someone please clarify that?

Look, let's be real here—Israel is a serious, established nation-state. They're a major global player on the world stage. Hamas isn't even remotely in the same league, let alone playing the same game. Honestly, you guys are getting pretty exhausting with these demands... I mean, if we're going to call Hamas by that name, then sure, we can call Israel whatever else people want to call them. It's just how it works, I guess.
It’s just not happening.
Look, if anyone actually wants to go toe-to-toe with Israel—whether they’re trying to fight them physically or just attempting to outmaneuver them politically—then Hamas needs to be defeated first. I mean, honestly, until that happens, I don't see how they can demand the same level of respect that established, legitimate nations get. It's just how things work, I guess.
This forum should be a space for free thinkers and independent minds to hash things out—not a playground for political hacks pushing their own propaganda.

The thing is, looking at what the moderator said, they’re basically peddling the worst kind of hate and chauvinism. It feels like if you belong to a group or a nation that doesn't have its own state or the backing of a massive superpower, you just don't get rights or freedom here.
Then, after spinning that blatant inequality, the moderator tries to pass it off as "freedom for free thinkers."
Honestly, it’s shameless to call Censorship "freedom of speech." Unbelievable. It’s straight out of a North Korean playbook.

Anyone who dares to disagree gets slapped with the "political propagandist" label, all while the moderator is busy running propaganda that even a totalitarian regime would find embarrassing.

If we actually take this guy's logic as the rule for this forum, then I guess Americans during the Communist era were totally justified in being oppressed and killed.
By his logic, people like Prekovic and Mustac shouldn't even face trial; they should just be declared national heroes from the old Communist days.
And by his reasoning, the defenders of El Paso—and everyone else who fought for America before it was internationally recognized—got exactly what they deserved, simply because the country wasn't officially a sovereign state back then.
I won't even get started on Jewish people before 1948 when they didn't have a state of their own. And so on, and so on...

See, you punished me for "hate speech" that wasn't even in my post—which you basically admitted to—and then gave me a warning for trolling, which I wasn't doing either, but whatever; meanwhile, you deleted my post where I was calling out the hate speech from the moderator Power, yet you left his post—which is dripping with hatred and chauvinism—up as if it were some beautiful love letter.
Look, this isn't about politics or differing opinions; it's about the forum's policy, which seems to allow spreading hate against anyone who doesn't have a moderator on their side.
People like those "Tomconovac" types, or Americans from Canada, and stuff like that.

I even tried to chime in on that "Mexico 2014" thread where people were literally bragging about slaughtering women, children, and the elderly—the moderator just put up a little "request" without any actual moderator authority, the insults toward the dead kept flying, and then he just shut the whole thread down.
Without handing out a single penalty for those morbid posts and all that nonsense.

So then I come here, you tell me you're only a moderator for this specific section, and then you delete my posts and give me a strike for no reason.
All while you leave up posts that spread nothing but hate and chauvinism under the guise of being "free and open-minded."
Calling Censorship "free thought"—that's a pretty clever patent for North Korea.

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Oh sure, that's exactly how some people used to label everything living "hate speech against vulnerable men" (?) while they were constantly spreading blatant intolerance by flooding the Politics section with poorly packaged, yet obvious misogyny.

(Thankfully, a few of us actually pointed that out back then)

It’s the same deal with the chaos in Israel, I suppose, where some people think Hamas = Palestine or whatever else isn't actually the case.

Terrorizing other users (and the poor moderators most of all) with these irrationalities—claiming someone has a right to speak just because they're a forum member—well, if you ask me, not really.

Both the users and especially the moderators should perhaps be protected from that, rather than the other way around.

granitefalcon26 said:What's going on here? First you chased off Rock, and now it’s rowdytiger13’s turn.
Anyone who actually moderates objectively clearly doesn't fit your mold. If it weren't for rowdytiger13, this whole thread would have turned into a fan club for the terrorist organization Hezbollah long ago.
You've driven most users away from specific threads (like the one about Ukraine), leaving you to run wild there.

And this is probably the second or third time some user from the Politics board has started a thread here just to jump in and attackthe author of the actual topic.

enough said.

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Jack Moore90 said:I run into this issue constantly whenever I try to access the forum via my phone.

It’s been happening almost non-stop for the last three or four days.

Then some massive ad pops up that covers half the screen and everything just freezes.

By the way, they used to shut down the forum occasionally to clean things up, but that hasn't happened in quite a while.

On top of being blocked by those huge ads, I sometimes get a warning that the site is 'malicious'—basically saying it's infected—and then I get kicked off. 🙏

I'm using Google, and it's just this forum causing trouble; everything else works perfectly fine.

mistymoose94 said:And they really need to stop lagging all the time. 😢

By the way, are you guys also getting that notification about a required update?

John Palmer4 said:What kind of refreshing change is this during such a massive recession and economic crisis???

Honestly, they should just shut down the forum until it actually gets updated and cleaned up properly.

(By the way, I keep getting a message saying my password needs updating, though I have no idea why others aren't seeing that)

Sarah Doyle54 said:🤣 🤣 🤣

Come on. 🤣 🤣 🤣

Sophia Thomas7 definitely knows her way around a computer, but this isn't exactly an issue that calls for a tech expert. Knowing a) that the site won't log you out if you select "remember me" and b) that updating your major passwords every once in a while is just basic digital literacy. But hey, I hope she charges you an hourly consulting fee for the advice. 😈

Nah, he's actually a good guy. 😁

I've been changing my passwords constantly.🤷

Look at the other person—I'm not exactly some newbie; I know my way around a computer just fine (that stuff about the 'tudum' earlier was just a joke 😍)

Matthew Anderson said:The odds of someone actually hacking into your account are incredibly slim. You really only increase that risk if you’re using super basic passwords—like using a username like Susan Price30 with a password like susanprice123. Beyond that, breaking into an account isn't as easy as people think.

So, it looks like Sophia Thomas7, who clearly knows her way around a computer, is pretty much on the mark here.🙏

A password like this might give some people enough of a clue to start guessing (it's not quite as glaringly obvious as 😁 suggests, but still, it could definitely be more complex).

Sarah Doyle54 said:If you checked that "remember me" box during login, you could have stayed logged in for years.

I’ve never actually clicked that option because I usually just hop on during my work breaks or from my laptop while traveling; when I'm home, I have much more important things to do...😁

Also, from what I've noticed, if you don't manually log out, the forum automatically signs you out after a certain amount of time, so it doesn't seem like it lasts forever....

Well done, Ed.

I had the exact same thought regarding the first option.

But since there were times when I hadn't logged in for days, I find it hard to believe the system would have just kept me signed in the entire time.

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The technical admin probably has a better handle on this; I'm pretty much a layman when it comes to tech stuff anyway.

I am curious about why this occurs. What are the possible explanations, and is there any way to prevent it?

Does anyone have an answer?

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So, basically on several occasions the same thing happens (most recently two nights ago)—I try to log in and get a message saying: Susan Price30, you are already logged in under the username Susan Price30... followed by some further explanation.

(By the way, this is the second time I've copied the entire text from the pop-up window because last time I didn't manage to do it—I just ran out of time and didn't think to.)

I definitely wasn't logged in when this happened (in fact, there were times I hadn't even logged in for days before it occurred).

So, I'm wondering why this keeps happening, what the possible explanations are, and if there's any way to prevent it.

Thanks

Btw, if any additional info or details regarding what I suspect is going on with my account are needed, I'm happy to forward them to administration for review.

Even if it seems unrelated, certain information might not be confidential since databases containing specific details about individuals or criminal activities are public and accessible (in the USA, at least, certain records are made available through public registries, newspapers, or wherever it serves the public interest).