Casey White13 said:I’m not going to engage with anyone who’s been banned from the forum.
But since you asked so nicely, I'll give you an answer. 🙂
I don't see anything wrong or particularly terrible about insulting the absolute scum and bottom-feeders running the US Soccer Federation. It’s just pathetic that you can only express an opinion on these forums; if you dare say it publicly, you better get ready for a massive uproar.
If some guy like Raymond Brooks81 (who only shows up in the Sports section when he needs to talk trash about Mexicans) feels offended because he’s being insulted by a kleptomaniac who can't even string a coherent sentence together—or in this case, someone using Australian slang—then that's his own damn problem.
All the mutual insults between users have been wiped, and anyone who went too far has been sanctioned—it seems like there's always a few regulars sitting out their cooling-off periods.
There, that's that.
You are a straight-up liar. And honestly, that isn't even an insult. Every single thread regarding the LA Galaxy is totally hijacked and ruined by a constant flood of frustration from a specific clique of people targeting the club leadership and any user who doesn't follow the forum's hive mind. The playbook is always the same: the moment someone tries to join the debate using the same language, they get slapped with cards for trolling or insults. Meanwhile, the newbies and the flamers are systematically deleted or handed cards based on their "points" just to prevent them from getting a permanent ban. Or, they pivot to ad hominem attacks and low-brow mockery of other users, which is somehow perfectly tolerated. The moderators back then could have written a book on double standards. We end up in a situation where the actual trolls and flamers keep posting away, while 99% of everyone else who doesn't conform is either permanently banned or restricted from the soccer subforum. The circus keeps rolling, but threads about the US Men's National Soccer Team and the LA Galaxy have fewer posts because nobody wants to blow a fuse or endure abuse from these forum thugs acting in symbiosis with the mods. Even that thread about Seattle Sounders FC wasn't spared from being torn apart by the resident forum "moralists" and socialites. And then people like you have the nerve to criticize my presence here. I’m not some kind of masochist who’s going to let a bunch of desperate losers tell me to go screw myself, especially when fighting back even ten percent of the time gets you banned instantly.☕
p.s. Since you brought up Mexicans, if you knew that a tenth of those disgusting insults from the US-Azerbaijan thread—which targeted Americans and Slavonians simply for daring to cheer for the US—were actually posted, you'd know that person would have been a dead man walking on this forum a long time ago. Try to prove me wrong if you've got three honest thoughts left in you.😉