Theophilus

Hey guys. What do you think of the changes to OPP? Think a lot of people will be leaving? I'm guessing the place will be a lot less toxic in the future, and I'm really looking forward to it. But it will only happen if we do our part and report people who are verbally abusive. I really hope it works out.

wings Loc: Georgia

I'm guessing it will be just as toxic but in a more subtle way. Can't change the color of a Tiger's stripes! But on the issue at hand people better start doing some serious thinking. First , I do agree that four letter words have no place in the printed media. Especially coming from ladies, as I have seen on OPP and elsewhere.
Insults enter a whole different area. While none of us likes to be insulted, where is the line between insults and criticism? Who makes this determination, and whose business is it if someone chooses to insult another. I say simply let purveyors of insult self destruct. These forums are meant to allow for political opinions to be heard without a fear that an overseer will not like their opinion. The country has entered a dangerous time in which freedom of speech is being controlled. In California ,one can now go to jail for using the wrong pronoun. We now have "hate speech" laws which can imprison a person for stating that a certain group is associated with mass murder. Personally, I prefer civility, but not at the expense of the country becoming another Soviet Union. That is where the country is headed if people don't smarten up.

wings Loc: Georgia

Oh and one more thing. The thought of "reporting people" because we don't like their opinions. I'm not sure if that is a grade school reaction or the reaction of a mind that is already hopelessly lost.
I can certainly say that my continuation with OPP is in question. And yes I know nobody cares ,so you don't have to repeat it.

Theophilus

Who said anything about reporting people for their opinions? It's personal insults and filthy language that should be reported.

wings Loc: Georgia

Opinions can be interpreted any way a person wants. To one it's an insult, to another it's a personal opinion.The whole matter of thought and speech control in the country can be seen by anyone who opens their eyes. It fits into the stage of dependency, which is the last stage of countless country's before their collapse .It should make anyone cringe to think about running to a commissar to "report"
that their feelings have been hurt or their precious "self esteem" has been degraded.
However I have already said many times that filthy language is another matter and should be eliminated, but that should be accomplished by ignoring and never replying to those people and they will disappear from natural causes. I really am coming to see that the folks on OPP do not understand the seriousness of this problem. There is an overwhelming apathy that has taken control.They need to spend 2 weeks in North Korea to understand the consequences of mind control.

eden

Personal abuse and name calling in response to an expressed opinion are a clear delineation between adult behavior and adolescent scribbles on public restroom walls but the occasional boorish behavior should not necessarily be sanctioned and my guess is that it will not. More of concern are the direct threats of bodily harm made by agents of intolerance who exhibit symptoms of various mental disorders. Threatening to hang me for my political opinion is not freedom of speech.

Kevyn

Do you think calling someone any of the following will get a poster banned? blabber blabbermouh busybody canary fink gossip informer nark quidnunc rat rumormonger scandalmonger snitch snitcher squeaker squealer tattle tale. In the neighborhood I grew up in there was a saying “snitches get stitches” obviously that can’t carry over to OPP.

wings Loc: Georgia

Kevin, if you call me those names I shall have no alternative but to report you to the exalted Glorious Commissar of the distinguished Peoples Republic. I will then wait in my safe space for a ruling by the esteemed czar of allowed speech.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

So do I, but I am afraid it is gong to be conservatives who will be removed from the forum, no matter how polite we are.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

Hasn't effected me at all yet.

Sounds like good changes. I hope it is.

Ve'hoe

LIke I have said before,,,, when I first came here,,,, I tried to be civil,,, and actually talk


The first liberal I spoke with was rumitoid,,, who rambled and blamed and insulted and twisted and lied,,,, and then just threw his hands in the air,
and called me an idiot and a liar........

That is what you will get,,,,,,


Opp "developed" the way it is,,,,,, with people like Cool Breeze positing kiddie porn anime,, of my daughter being anally raped,,,,,, and admin threatened me..... like the Harvey weinstein thing,,,,, saying "I sort of asked for it"

Racist comments from people like Peter S about drunken indians this, and indian fetal alcohol syndrome that,,,,,,

And one moron, Khh1 who fantazied about digging up my dead mother whom he called a "lobster coolored b-tch" and raping her in what he called "the dookey chute",,,, and this lefty claimed to be a professor teaching in California

It will be fine, I suppose, if it actually happens..... but what "fair" seems to mean is the left gets to say anything they want,,,,,,, and shut your pie hole

Ve'hoe

Argumentative,,,,, if you care to make fun of what we are trying to do,,, yeah,, I think you need to be kicked off


RAmbling,,,, like this,,, maligning with no thought or purpose is meant only to provoke,,,,, and as I understand it,,, it has been outlawed,,,,
primarily due to the whining of the leftists here......


Play by the rules, or keep your mouth shut,,, or leave,,,,,,,

Doesnt seem that hard,,,,,,,,, are you going to do it or not.....

wings Loc: Georgia

Ordinarily I never agree with Kevin. We are as far apart politically as it is possible to be. However his post was for all intents well thought out and written. His post asks "where do we draw the line". A question any thinking person should be asking. As I've said many times, our society is in deep deep trouble and there's not much time left to smarten up.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

" our society is in deep deep trouble and there's not much time left to smarten up." Please explain.

Big Bass

I'll believe it when I see it. The commie-liberal mantra is "Hurl insults when a cogent response is not immediately forthcoming."