This sub forum is really left and when a conservative gives an opinion you want personal details and a lynch mob comes crawling out.
Look how you all jump on Jgrimes
That's a relative position to have. Going by your join date, and assuming you didn't have an account before (and for the benefit of anyone tuning in now), I'll point out that this site has long held a left lean, particularly in this political forum. There have been right leaning voices at times, but generally, being in the minority, the discussions would be tilted, and become more pointed than factual - the point where some accounts were simply trolling, and with that staff patience wore thin, and rightfully so if there were accounts attempting to disrupt rather than hold an honest discussion.
However, a right leaning voice is not to be silenced simply for it's view, only if it is posting for the point of causing issues (ie, re-iterating unproven accusations and opinions, and unwillingness to consider, or even hear, opposing views and facts....I'm tempted to make a parallel with the Dems hunting Trump, but I'll let it go). I avoided this forum for nearly two decades, but I made it a point to join in over the last year to prove the point a right leaning voice CAN be heard, if it engages in honest discussion.
Left voices are still in higher numbers, but I can honestly say they don't simply shout, but are actually trying to engage in honest discussion - to share what they believe, to understand how someone sees or believes the same 'facts' differently, and to hold a discussion where nobody is trying to 'win' so much as be understood and be able to understand others, accepting the two may never meet, but may at least see the other's view.
he's the biggest Trump fan there is. I read his posts instead of watching Fox News to keep up with the talking points.
Woah, woah, woah...'biggest Trump fan'? Lol, I suppose I do have that reputation in this pool of liberals, but that would only be in this small pond. Someone has to pull you lot back towards center before you drive us all off a socialist cliff
I also don't think JG or anyone else here needs to be coddled and protected. You guys are all about free speech right? If you click on a political thread and post, you ought to be prepared to engage with others who disagree.
Buyer beware is the general accepted rule with any internet forum. Anyone can lurk, reading and observing. But if you're willing to jump into the discussion, expect not only to be heard, but challenged - especially if your view is different from the majority. The mods are in place should anyone start moving things in a personal attack direction, but for the most part the members police themselves by what they choose to engage in. Mal's on point with his post.
But its not a conspiracy, Clinton was there without his security detail. I would be far more outraged over that than a witch hunt
Part of what this forum does, under the hard work of the moderator staff, is to police threads so they don't get someone getting into personal attacks - that's simply not on as it does nothing for discussion and may earn the person infractions or suspensions as it disrupts the others trying to hold a discussion point. A second thing they do is keep threads on topic. To me, that's good and bad in that it keeps a particular topic from getting muddied with other talking points (ie, throwing Clinton wrongdoings into a Trump thread) - the topic should stand on it's own merit and be discussed as such (anything Trump does that is wrong, IS WRONG). But it also shunts comparisons that may be valid (Clintons got away with a ton'o'shit under the Dem's watch, and yet Dem's are after Trump for made up reasons - or worse accusations of things the Dem's themselves have done). It is a tough line to walk, but one we trust the mods to determine and police. The members get used to it, and take things to the appropriate threads (there isn't ONE thread for all things), or don't get ruffled if mods remove something (personal attacks) or move it (other thread topic material).
