I joined Urban 75 in 2004, as I recall, and Opiophile in 2005. Urban 75 is a London-based website slash forum that is quite similar to BL. There is a very weak Drugs Forum which encompasses ALL psychoactives. However, the World Politics Forum had a sub-forum concerning the Middle East and this was basically the reason I joined.
I didn't realise when I joined that it was almost entirely Leftist, in fact Hard Left, and so almost immediately I began catching shit over my views concerning Israel. If you are familiar with my posting on BL's CE and P Forum you might imagine that I am some sort of Israeli Apologist, never seeing Israel at fault on any issue. The truth is, like any rational adult I have plenty of problems with my country but unlike most on BL I know the country quite well and have been dealing with the same accusations for decades. While BLers repeat the same tired propaganda over and over ad naseum, I simply respond with factual and almost entirely unemotional explanations. If you tell me that Israel is committing genocide against "Palestinians" I will correctly tell you that since 1948 their life expectany rose from 44 to 78 and their infant mortality decreased more than 5-fold. Moreover, their population has risen from 1 million to nearly 18 millon! The endgame in genocide is the extermination of a people, not to help them increase 17-fold.
If instead, BLers chose to focus on how the Hate Law is unevenly applied with only Jews being charged, or how the Government is dead wrong to give religious Jews military exemptions simply because they study Scripture, I will say "yepper doodle" all day long. This never happens. All that is produced is the same redundant propaganda soundbites over and over.
On Urban 75 there were disgusting people (aren't there some on all sites?). I remember once discussing the "Ramallah Lynching." In this event, which took place in 2000 during Intifadeh II, 2 IDF Reservists were driving to their post near Ramallah, the "Palestinian" capital, located in the so called "West Bank." Not familiar with Ramallah they made a wrong turn and found themselves smack dab in the middle of a street demonstration which was in front of Ramallah's Central Police Station.
As always, International Media outlets were covering the event, and Israeli TV stations were running live feeds. Israel, and to a lesser degree the world watched in horror as the mob dragged the two men, wearing civilian clothes, from a personal automobile of one of the Reservists. Beating the men terribly the crowd dragged both into the police station. Shortly thereafter, they were lynched from a second floor window by putting nooses around their necks and throwing each one out the window. After killing them they brought the bodies back inside the windows and began mutilating the 2 corpses. As cameras rolled a young "Palestinian" stood in the window beaming, arms bathed in blood he showed both palms, bloody, as the crowd roared their approval.
The corpses were then thrown to the street below where one had all his bones literally pulverised. If you ever see a disintegrated skull, the head, the face, it turns flat like a pancake.The world saw it (funny how those actions never enter Western public consciousness).
On Urban 75 the argument was that the Reservists caused their own deaths because they were undercover. We have a Special Forces unit, "Mista'ar'veem," which dresses as and acts like Arabs. The accusation was nonsense. They were Reservists, with the fellow Reservists in their battalion appearing publicly and on television. This is besides the fact that the undercover unit in question only ever operates with an entire squad at a time, 7 men- not 2. Anyway, that person was a typical Urban 75 member.
One day, in 2007 I believe, someone called me a "Fascist." Uneducated people tend to believe it is an insult. The racist bullshit from the WWII Axis was an aberration. In a nutshell, without the exonomic component, it is an ideology in which the state is paramount to everything. I explained this to the poster while stating that I am NOT a Fascist (I was at the time a Centrist, neither Right nor Left). The next day I was banned for being a Fascist. It was such nonsense.
Before it had happened I had experienced some difficulties logging in and so I created an alternate ID. My original ID, the one that was banned, was "Rachamim 18." The alternate ID was simply "Rachamim."
About a month ago I was laying in bed and decided to see if the alternate ID was still in existence. To my suprise it was and so I posted. That same day a petty motherfucker ran to a Mod who banned me again, this time for having "multiple IDs". Hahahaha such nonsense. I immediately wrote to the site owner slash administrator. I explained that I had originally been banned for being a Fascist and asked if the site only catered to those on the Hard Left, and if so was there a disclaimer that I might have overlooked.
He responded promptly and nastily as he told me that I was playing games because I knew why I was banned, for having multiple IDs. I explained that I wouldn't have had to utilise that ID if I hadn't been banned for being a Fascist. Gosh it was such a waste of time. I was disgusted for even caring but I felt that the site, which like BL solicits money, was being unfair to its donors if it didn't reveal a narrow political agenda that it represented. Nothing came of it.
On the other hand, I've never had problems at Opiophile, save an infraction- a warning- for offering to give a dozen members 1 kilo of kratom leaf as a free sample. I figured that it would generate good word of mouth. A girl who was a Mod at the time cried foul and I got the warning, in 2008. Other than nothing.
I will continue soon...
I didn't realise when I joined that it was almost entirely Leftist, in fact Hard Left, and so almost immediately I began catching shit over my views concerning Israel. If you are familiar with my posting on BL's CE and P Forum you might imagine that I am some sort of Israeli Apologist, never seeing Israel at fault on any issue. The truth is, like any rational adult I have plenty of problems with my country but unlike most on BL I know the country quite well and have been dealing with the same accusations for decades. While BLers repeat the same tired propaganda over and over ad naseum, I simply respond with factual and almost entirely unemotional explanations. If you tell me that Israel is committing genocide against "Palestinians" I will correctly tell you that since 1948 their life expectany rose from 44 to 78 and their infant mortality decreased more than 5-fold. Moreover, their population has risen from 1 million to nearly 18 millon! The endgame in genocide is the extermination of a people, not to help them increase 17-fold.
If instead, BLers chose to focus on how the Hate Law is unevenly applied with only Jews being charged, or how the Government is dead wrong to give religious Jews military exemptions simply because they study Scripture, I will say "yepper doodle" all day long. This never happens. All that is produced is the same redundant propaganda soundbites over and over.
On Urban 75 there were disgusting people (aren't there some on all sites?). I remember once discussing the "Ramallah Lynching." In this event, which took place in 2000 during Intifadeh II, 2 IDF Reservists were driving to their post near Ramallah, the "Palestinian" capital, located in the so called "West Bank." Not familiar with Ramallah they made a wrong turn and found themselves smack dab in the middle of a street demonstration which was in front of Ramallah's Central Police Station.
As always, International Media outlets were covering the event, and Israeli TV stations were running live feeds. Israel, and to a lesser degree the world watched in horror as the mob dragged the two men, wearing civilian clothes, from a personal automobile of one of the Reservists. Beating the men terribly the crowd dragged both into the police station. Shortly thereafter, they were lynched from a second floor window by putting nooses around their necks and throwing each one out the window. After killing them they brought the bodies back inside the windows and began mutilating the 2 corpses. As cameras rolled a young "Palestinian" stood in the window beaming, arms bathed in blood he showed both palms, bloody, as the crowd roared their approval.
The corpses were then thrown to the street below where one had all his bones literally pulverised. If you ever see a disintegrated skull, the head, the face, it turns flat like a pancake.The world saw it (funny how those actions never enter Western public consciousness).
On Urban 75 the argument was that the Reservists caused their own deaths because they were undercover. We have a Special Forces unit, "Mista'ar'veem," which dresses as and acts like Arabs. The accusation was nonsense. They were Reservists, with the fellow Reservists in their battalion appearing publicly and on television. This is besides the fact that the undercover unit in question only ever operates with an entire squad at a time, 7 men- not 2. Anyway, that person was a typical Urban 75 member.
One day, in 2007 I believe, someone called me a "Fascist." Uneducated people tend to believe it is an insult. The racist bullshit from the WWII Axis was an aberration. In a nutshell, without the exonomic component, it is an ideology in which the state is paramount to everything. I explained this to the poster while stating that I am NOT a Fascist (I was at the time a Centrist, neither Right nor Left). The next day I was banned for being a Fascist. It was such nonsense.
Before it had happened I had experienced some difficulties logging in and so I created an alternate ID. My original ID, the one that was banned, was "Rachamim 18." The alternate ID was simply "Rachamim."
About a month ago I was laying in bed and decided to see if the alternate ID was still in existence. To my suprise it was and so I posted. That same day a petty motherfucker ran to a Mod who banned me again, this time for having "multiple IDs". Hahahaha such nonsense. I immediately wrote to the site owner slash administrator. I explained that I had originally been banned for being a Fascist and asked if the site only catered to those on the Hard Left, and if so was there a disclaimer that I might have overlooked.
He responded promptly and nastily as he told me that I was playing games because I knew why I was banned, for having multiple IDs. I explained that I wouldn't have had to utilise that ID if I hadn't been banned for being a Fascist. Gosh it was such a waste of time. I was disgusted for even caring but I felt that the site, which like BL solicits money, was being unfair to its donors if it didn't reveal a narrow political agenda that it represented. Nothing came of it.
On the other hand, I've never had problems at Opiophile, save an infraction- a warning- for offering to give a dozen members 1 kilo of kratom leaf as a free sample. I figured that it would generate good word of mouth. A girl who was a Mod at the time cried foul and I got the warning, in 2008. Other than nothing.
I will continue soon...