Posts by redmarlin3

goldengull3 said:Did anyone mention that the supermods actually got official Ford Escorts handed to them?

Thanks for gifting me that old Chevrolet Spark you scored from your boss last year 😍

I think I'll ofarbati it pink 😍

Kate Fisher73, look, I know I’m easy on the eyes and hard to resist, but seriously, give it a rest... 🙂

northernwalker0 said:Cut the trolling...☕

If that hole actually existed, NASA astronauts would have stumbled upon it by now.

Just spread 'em wide and you'll find it soon enough. ☕

....maybe....in the heat of the battle itself, we'll stumble upon that glitch in the heavens....if we just peer deep, deep enough....beneath the surface of who we think we are....
....but can we actually say for certain....that the laws we know still hold sway down there?....
....is pure randomness the only rule left....in that kind of meta-space?....

Kate Fisher73, you’re dragging us straight back into some dark, medieval era of censorship and punishing people just for having an opinion, no matter how much you try to sugarcoat it. 😁

Look, let me be clear—that kind of thing doesn't fly with me. 🙂

Let them hate Mexicans if they want to! 👋

And since you didn't say a single word regarding that vegan post about how meat-eaters are nothing but immoral killers, I reckon you are... (take a guess)....hypocritical! :klap:

Roger Robinson682 said:Oh, my apologies, Your Highness... I didn't realize that was forbidden.
God, the sheer arrogance of this guy...🙄🙄🙄

Since you have exactly zero—that's Z-E-R-O—posts on that specific subforum, there really isn't any reason for you to be chiming in on anything happening there.

Kate Fisher73 said:I’ve been sitting here thinking about this whole situation, and honestly, I can’t help but feel like we’re just spinning our wheels. It feels like everyone is shouting at once, but nobody is actually listening to the logic behind the arguments. We keep circling back to the same tired grievances, acting as if we haven't heard these exact points a thousand times before. It’s funny, really. You see people like Kate Fisher73 jumping into the fray, trying to make sense of things, while others just want to stir the pot for the sake of it. And then there's Roger Robinson682, who always seems to have an opinion on how things *should* have gone, even when the reality on the ground is completely different. It’s exhausting to watch... Look, let's be blunt. We can sit here and debate the finer points of policy or history all day long, but if we don't address the fundamental disconnect in how we view our own country, nothing is going to change. We’re too busy looking for scapegoats instead of looking in the mirror. It’s a pattern. A predictable, frustrating pattern that we seem to repeat every few years... I mean, look at the way certain groups handle dissent. It isn't about finding common ground anymore; it's about winning the argument at any cost. Even when someone like Joseph Watson3 tries to bring some semblance of order to the discussion, it just gets swallowed up by the noise. It’s almost impressive how quickly a productive conversation turns into a shouting match... Anyway, I suppose that's just how it goes sometimes. We talk, we argue, we pretend we've made progress, and then we wake up the next morning to find ourselves right back where we started. It makes you wonder if anyone actually wants a solution, or if we're all just addicted to the conflict itself...

I have to say, I’m pretty blindsided by that response from redmarlin3. It’s especially wild considering it was directed at Satori, who isn't even allowed on the platform anymore...
So, I have to ask... isn't that bolded sentence right there actually hate speech?
Wouldn't anyone posting about stuff like Religion or Politics on a PDF be slapped with a 500-point penalty... right?
And I actually sat there wondering if calling someone a "hypocrite" counts as an insult... you know, like something that could get me flagged for 45 points... 😕)

Would redmarlin3 or anyone else on the admin team be kind enough to explain exactly where my comprehension is failing me?

Thanks in advance...

I can't even begin to wrap my head around this... It’s just one thing after another lately, isn't it? Every time I think we've hit rock bottom, someone decides to dig a little deeper... anyway, where was I? Right. Sentence 1...

I honestly think Mexicans are just a mean-spirited and unpleasant people, and I don't have any love for them.

Sentence 2:

I honestly think Mexicans are just a bad, hateful people, and in my opinion, they ought to be wiped out...

Here’s a million-dollar question: where exactly do we draw the line between free speech and actual hate speech?

Let's go, let's go! 👋 [applause]

So, you're actually suggesting you'd go around sanctioning someone else? Honestly... Just my two cents...?
Look, I’m sorry, but... Whatever... everyone's just talking at once... The truth about this world is that... He just doesn't like Mexicans...Or anyone else, really...
Expressing a desire for specific action is one thing, and actually doing it is another... just look at the way sentence two is structured.

Another one...

I don't really see "hypocrite" as an insult. Honestly, if I can say something to my friends or my boyfriend with the intention of calling them out—without worrying they're going to take it personally or fly off the handle—then it isn't an insult to me. Calling someone "stupid" or "ugly"... yeah, that’s an insult. But "hypocrite"? To me, that's just on par with calling someone "narrow-minded." It’s more of a plain observation than anything else...
I can't wrap my head around why anyone would even think about sanctioning the word "hypocrite"... Especially... If you aren't actually calling out a specific individual, but instead you're taking aim at a certain group of people...

Look, I don't take it personally when people drop lines like "women are just gold diggers," or "punks are brainless and smell bad," or even that nonsense about how "thin women are just hysterical and cold." It doesn't move the needle for me. So, honestly, I couldn't care less if someone takes offense to me saying "vegetarians are hypocrites." It’s all just noise...

I'm not even going after that whole "carnivores are killers" thing, you know...

I hope I managed to get my point across to you... It’s like there’s this massive gap in how people actually process things... a total breakdown in basic comprehension. It's getting harder and harder to have a coherent conversation when half the people you're talking to seem to be operating on a completely different frequency. You lay out a point, clear and simple, and they just... miss it. They grab onto some tiny, irrelevant detail and run with it, ignoring the actual substance of what was said. It’s frustrating, honestly. It feels less like a disagreement and more like a fundamental inability to follow a logical thread... which makes everything feel like an uphill battle..

Roger Robinson682 said:Maybe they wouldn't mind if you just swapped out the word "Mexican" for something like "Muslim" or some other group... throw in a few hundred insults and nobody really dies from it. And yeah, if you're asking whether this is offensive? There's absolutely no doubt about it...🙄🙄

Who even are you, who invited you here, and why on earth are you sticking your nose in my business?... ☕

Raymond Anderson4 said:I don't think Satori deserved the ban... but hey, I guess someone out there knows better than I do🤷...

Satori just got screwed over by some tenth-tier moderator for some tenth-tier reason. Her ban has absolutely nothing to do with the controversial topic itself, especially since she didn't even get a warning on it.

And yeah, you're damn right someone knows better than you. 😁

Come on, people. It’s a beautiful day outside; do you seriously have nothing better to do than troll this forum? 🙄 Because these last two posts haven't been anything else.

Lock this thread, please.

Yeah, yeah, before 🙏 🙏 🙏

There's this picture of some guy wearing sunglasses, drawn like stencil graffiti or something, and he's always got "Edie" tagged right next to him 🙏

WHAT IS THIS, ACTUALLY????!!!1111one

The same thing happened to me just the other day.

I tried clearing out EVERYTHING—my cache, my cookies, the whole nine yards. I cycled through Google Chrome first, then switched over to Safari, even went as far as downloading Edge just to see if that would fix it... still nothing.
I actually ended up asking a friend for their login credentials just so I could test if it was an account issue. Tried logging in with those details on all three browsers, and nope, total dead end.
I couldn't even load any of the forum threads my friends were sending me via Yahoo.
Meanwhile, every other site—including CNN—was loading perfectly fine without a hitch.
A few of my colleagues (some regular users, some Management folks too) were dealing with the exact same headache at the same time.
And almost every single one of them was using a different provider, like Comcast or AT&T.
Then, after a few hours, everything just suddenly snapped back to normal without us lifting a finger.

Nobody, not even Management, has any clue why it happened in the first place. 🤷

Bio-fight translate 🙏 🙏 🙏

Can someone translate this into American if they can? 🙂

😁

Elizabeth Palmer2 said:WTF... if you look at the main page of the forum, right next to every single PDF, there's that list sitting on the right side, lol.

It's listed right there, except the moderators for the specific sub-forums aren't showing up.

Whatever, don't mind me. I'm just over here nursing my bruised ego because apparently being visible isn't "in style" anymore in the General Discussion section...😢

😁

Oh, I should probably mention one more thing—once you subscribe to a thread, they’ll give you a few different John Doe settings to play with. If you aren't looking to clog up your inbox, just pick the "no email notification" setting... keeps things quiet.

The next time you drop by the site, just head up to that blue bar at the top—you know, the one where you see CNN.com, Medium, Marketing, Option, and so on—and click on Option. It'll pull up a list of every thread you're following that actually has new posts waiting for you.

From there, just hit that little blue arrow next to the thread title, and it'll jump you straight to the very first unread post since the last time you checked in. 🙂

Hey there, I’m gonna need Google Translate just to make sense of this thread 🙏 🙏 🙏

Gary Patel said:Could I actually be a moderator? You know, considering all the political correctness and whatever else...

Please. I've already been branded as the official male representative of the gay community here...

vividfalcon14 said:A Moderator is what you get when an Administrator and a Regular user hook up. Somethin' like that. ☺

Let me elaborate on that just a bit...

If you pair an Administrator with a Regular user, you end up with a Moderator.
If you pair an Administrator with a Regular user, you get a Supermoderator.

🎉

The last time I saw you posting somewhere other than this thread was two days ago over in the Housing section—you were talking about house design, building permits, and construction stuff, if I remember correctly... 🤷 Or have you been busy lurking or posting in some other corner of the forum since then?

Well, thanks for making me feel like I wasn't just losing my mind... 😛

I just realized I was convinced you were actually the one in charge of that. 😵

Huh. Well, now I know. 🙂

Yeah, look, I’ve only got two posts here—one being a request to change my handle—so honestly, it would be an absolute waste of time to just go through the whole hassle of registering all over again. 🤣

Jose Taylor17 said:just reach out to the admin Charles Ramirez59 or Bellwether

Not happening. 🙂

Just contact Charles Ramirez59.