Goodbye Fellow Reds, Friends and Everybody Else

[PaulRoJo]

bloody mods!

[Sithbare]

@Noo_Noo

I think it is possible with someone with a moderate centre right position. I think that view could really add some value to discussions.

I’m probably a centrist compared to most of the guys around here.

I don’t mind quite a lot of the economic policies of the right wing. But could do without the lunacy.

There are very few left economic policies that I agree with.

[Sithbare]

@RedWhippet

Conservatism does not mean fraud, theft, destruction of national institutions and the rule of law. In fact, it is supposed to mean quite the opposite.

There’s nothing wrong with having quite a lot conservative financial policies.

Why don’t enough people want to vote for liberal values and fiscal conservativeness ? Both don’t need to be exclusive.

[PaulRoJo]

conservative values wrt the environment are the only ones that make sense with me.

[cynicaloldgit]

Trash it for a quick buck?

[PaulRoJo]

No as in conserve the natural environment for its own sake.

[cynicaloldgit]

But that isn’t what political conservatives believe.

[Noo_Noo]

@Sithbare

@RedWhippet

Conservatism does not mean fraud, theft, destruction of national institutions and the rule of law. In fact, it is supposed to mean quite the opposite.

There’s nothing wrong with having quite a lot conservative financial policies.

Why don’t enough people want to vote for liberal values and fiscal conservativeness ? Both don’t need to be exclusive.

Absolutely fine.

Since 2010 the UK has drifted to the right. Around 2016 it lurched a long way to the right and I suspect our dear departed colleague followed that path.

We really need a reset, a major reset which is not popular in some quarters.

[cynicaloldgit]

@Noo_Noo

Since 1979 the UK has been dragged to the right.

FIFY

[Noo_Noo]

Fair shout thinking about it.

Not sure all of it was a bad thing. Last 13 years though…

[WeeJoe]

I love that the OP is a lengthy discourse on how badly they were treated, being cancelled by powerful MODs, and the devastation that their departure will bring to the forum.

Then 110 replies of

[Quicksand]

@Bekloppt

He was undoubtedly a wind up merchant who would attempt to provoke and then fake surprise when he got a reaction. This is a common type on the internet, but it’s a very tiresome game.
His claim that his views were cancelled wasn’t based on reality. The problem was that he never engaged when presented with evidence that contradicted his stance, and thus he was impossible to discuss with in a rational manner. It would be great to have someone who argued conservative positions with logic and sense, but he wasn’t that person.
In fact, he came across as an annoying adolescent, unready to join the adult world. Sadly, there seem to be a lot of his type about.

Careful now

Shhhhhh
He is reading!!

[GaryBarlow99]

@gasband

I think I am just going to draw pictures of shitty art or Shart so that when people say “your art is shit”, they are just describing what the picture is showing ,not what they think of the picture.

[Nobluff]

@cynicaloldgit

But if those with whom you engage cannot present any facts to support their stance, and refuse to listen to logic, how can you take them seriously?

That sounds like an extremist and not a liberal/conservative.

[Nobluff]

@cynicaloldgit

And extremists are exactly what the current UK Conservative Party have become.

Do you acknowledge that there are liberal extremists that ignore facts/reason or is it just a conservative thing?

[cynicaloldgit]

Of course. There are those everywhere who ignore facts and reason- they are people, after all, and people are fuckwits.

[Nobluff]

@cynicaloldgit

Of course. There are those everywhere who ignore facts and reason- they are people, after all, and people are fuckwits.

Exactly what I thought, you obviously only detest extreme conservatives.

[cynicaloldgit]

Huh? Not sure how you draw that conclusion.

[Nobluff]

@cynicaloldgit

Huh? Not sure how you draw that conclusion.

@cynicaloldgit

Of course. There are those everywhere who ignore facts and reason- they are people, after all, and people are fuckwits.

Nobody calls extremist libs fuckwits, that’s exclusively used for extremist conservatives.

[cynicaloldgit]

I call everyone fuckwits, as has been evidenced many times on this forum.