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I was a daily contributor to this site from 1999 until about 2011.  12 years!  Then I had advanced into some national roles in my career, traveling and working constantly, got married, had a wife and two stepkids to prioritize.  I also burned out on Obama's bullshit.....we could always commiserate about all his team's fuckery on this site, but I just got burned out it was getting so pervasive and just fucking nuts, with nothing we could really do about it.

Kids launched successfully, and as Obama's rule drew to a close, I renewed my membership about 2018 or so and started to get more involved again.  

But the membership has deteriorated significantly.  We have so many "conservatives" here now, who, when they join the deep discussions, are clearly leftists, commies, and statists, that it blows my fucking mind.  It's like the most recent generation or two who have joined the site, are fucking clueless.......or malevolent.  

The site operation has deteriorated as well.  I recently got an account warning that really just didn't make any logical sense.  Either people have a limited grasp of the finer points of written comprehension, or the "reason" was just stitched together and acting on the complaint of a low IQ social warrior looking for the slightest hook to complain about.  Regardless, you might as well express your opinion on a modern college campus at this point, because we get the same results.  Accused of a violation of some form of Political Correctness, and Censored.  

So, I will be participating less again.  My posting is going to drop off, a bunch.  I'm tired of arguing with people who think we should all be sacrificing our kids and grandkids financial future to fund the elites trust funds, and fund the use of corrupt proxies to continue the Obama team's dream of militarily and socially defeating the second largest White Christian nation outside of the United States in their multi-decade pursuit of a global defeat of the Advanced Western Civilization that that demographic built.  I'm tired of "you've been here long enough to know you can't refer to black people as Amish", when I didn't.  Let the butthurt leftists, thug apologists, and government information warfare types run all the long time contributors off, and supervise the site based on political correctness and low IQ interpretations of the written word.  It can only increasingly dumb down the content across the site and continue to divide and conquer rational people among the Bill of Rights supporting, America loving, Western Civilization participators that this site used to be for.  Eventually, the original demographic will all be gone.  Replaced with a different membership.  It is a consequence of going "for profit".  It has to mirror society to continue.  

From the perspective of a right leaning, but more libertarian than Republican, white male American Christian who is 100% accepting of people of all races, colors, creed, religion, etc. BUT has a specific set of beliefs about what constitutes proper individual and group behavior in a peaceful and progressive society, underpinned by Personal Responsibility and the Bill of Rights, society is sliding off the cliff.  It is being driven there by the political class with the help of government, NGOs, and SJWs utilizing Fascist media tactics, Propaganda, and political correctness.  Because it has to cater to broader society for it's continued existence and success, to an extent this site reflects that trend.    

There are likely places on the internet that will draw a line in the sand, and say "the constant societal push by and toward the left into censorship and regressive insanity ends right here for us, we will hold the line right here", but this site isn't it.  For many of us, this is extremely disappointing, as this was our cultural stronghold, our redoubt.  But it isn't any longer, and it cannot be because the establishment that is driving the slide into oblivion, has absolute control of the infrastructure that hosts it.  

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Old accounts getting hacked.

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Some people have lives outside the internet.

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I often wonder,  how pathetic a man's life could be to have +50k post on one forum on the internet. Then I laugh at the comments regarding hacked accounts because so many of you are in disbelief that life does exist outside of the internet.
Get out of moms basement and live life a little of live a lot.

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Agents Trolls being ordered to be more involved .

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So you are telling me someone will buy this account from me? Does the EE feedback bring a premium?

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I was a daily contributor to this site from 1999 until about 2011.  12 years!  Then I had advanced into some national roles in my career, traveling and working constantly, got married, had a wife and two stepkids to prioritize.  I also burned out on Obama's bullshit.....we could always commiserate about all his team's fuckery on this site, but I just got burned out it was getting so pervasive and just fucking nuts, with nothing we could really do about it.

Kids launched successfully, and as Obama's rule drew to a close, I renewed my membership about 2018 or so and started to get more involved again.  

But the membership has deteriorated significantly.  We have so many "conservatives" here now, who, when they join the deep discussions, are clearly leftists, commies, and statists, that it blows my fucking mind.  It's like the most recent generation or two who have joined the site, are fucking clueless.......or malevolent.  

The site operation has deteriorated as well.  I recently got an account warning that really just didn't make any logical sense.  Either people have a limited grasp of the finer points of written comprehension, or the "reason" was just stitched together and acting on the complaint of a low IQ social warrior looking for the slightest hook to complain about.  Regardless, you might as well express your opinion on a modern college campus at this point, because we get the same results.  Accused of a violation of some form of Political Correctness, and Censored.  

So, I will be participating less again.  My posting is going to drop off, a bunch.  I'm tired of arguing with people who think we should all be sacrificing our kids and grandkids financial future to fund the elites trust funds, and fund the use of corrupt proxies to continue the Obama team's dream of militarily and socially defeating the second largest White Christian nation outside of the United States in their multi-decade pursuit of a global defeat of the Advanced Western Civilization that that demographic built.  I'm tired of "you've been here long enough to know you can't refer to black people as Amish", when I didn't.  Let the butthurt leftists, thug apologists, and government information warfare types run all the long time contributors off, and supervise the site based on political correctness and low IQ interpretations of the written word.  It can only increasingly dumb down the content across the site and continue to divide and conquer rational people among the Bill of Rights supporting, America loving, Western Civilization participators that this site used to be for.  Eventually, the original demographic will all be gone.  Replaced with a different membership.  It is a consequence of going "for profit".  It has to mirror society to continue.  

From the perspective of a right leaning, but more libertarian than Republican, white male American Christian who is 100% accepting of people of all races, colors, creed, religion, etc. BUT has a specific set of beliefs about what constitutes proper individual and group behavior in a peaceful and progressive society, underpinned by Personal Responsibility and the Bill of Rights, society is sliding off the cliff.  It is being driven there by the political class with the help of government, NGOs, and SJWs utilizing Fascist media tactics, Propaganda, and political correctness.  Because it has to cater to broader society for it's continued existence and success, to an extent this site reflects that trend.    

There are likely places on the internet that will draw a line in the sand, and say "the constant societal push by and toward the left into censorship and regressive insanity ends right here for us, we will hold the line right here", but this site isn't it.  For many of us, this is extremely disappointing, as this was our cultural stronghold, our redoubt.  But it isn't any longer, and it cannot be because the establishment that is driving the slide into oblivion, has absolute control of the infrastructure that hosts it.  

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20 years ago was 2 years after 9/11. Some of us were just busy. Now we’re older with more time on our hands.

In some cases, maybe some of us just don’t feel the need to live on the internet. Or when we read something, don’t always feel we have anything to contribute, whereas others seem to like to hear themselves talk all the time and contribute even when they have nothing meaningful to say.

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I was a daily contributor to this site from 1999 until about 2011.  12 years!  Then I had advanced into some national roles in my career, traveling and working constantly, got married, had a wife and two stepkids to prioritize.  I also burned out on Obama's bullshit.....we could always commiserate about all his team's fuckery on this site, but I just got burned out it was getting so pervasive and just fucking nuts, with nothing we could really do about it.

Kids launched successfully, and as Obama's rule drew to a close, I renewed my membership about 2018 or so and started to get more involved again.  

But the membership has deteriorated significantly.  We have so many "conservatives" here now, who, when they join the deep discussions, are clearly leftists, commies, and statists, that it blows my fucking mind.  It's like the most recent generation or two who have joined the site, are fucking clueless.......or malevolent.  

The site operation has deteriorated as well.  I recently got an account warning that really just didn't make any logical sense.  Either people have a limited grasp of the finer points of written comprehension, or the "reason" was just stitched together and acting on the complaint of a low IQ social warrior looking for the slightest hook to complain about.  Regardless, you might as well express your opinion on a modern college campus at this point, because we get the same results.  Accused of a violation of some form of Political Correctness, and Censored.  

So, I will be participating less again.  My posting is going to drop off, a bunch.  I'm tired of arguing with people who think we should all be sacrificing our kids and grandkids financial future to fund the elites trust funds, and fund the use of corrupt proxies to continue the Obama team's dream of militarily and socially defeating the second largest White Christian nation outside of the United States in their multi-decade pursuit of a global defeat of the Advanced Western Civilization that that demographic built.  I'm tired of "you've been here long enough to know you can't refer to black people as Amish", when I didn't.  Let the butthurt leftists, thug apologists, and government information warfare types run all the long time contributors off, and supervise the site based on political correctness and low IQ interpretations of the written word.  It can only increasingly dumb down the content across the site and continue to divide and conquer rational people among the Bill of Rights supporting, America loving, Western Civilization participators that this site used to be for.  Eventually, the original demographic will all be gone.  Replaced with a different membership.  It is a consequence of going "for profit".  It has to mirror society to continue.  

From the perspective of a right leaning, but more libertarian than Republican, white male American Christian who is 100% accepting of people of all races, colors, creed, religion, etc. BUT has a specific set of beliefs about what constitutes proper individual and group behavior in a peaceful and progressive society, underpinned by Personal Responsibility and the Bill of Rights, society is sliding off the cliff.  It is being driven there by the political class with the help of government, NGOs, and SJWs utilizing Fascist media tactics, Propaganda, and political correctness.  Because it has to cater to broader society for it's continued existence and success, to an extent this site reflects that trend.    

There are likely places on the internet that will draw a line in the sand, and say "the constant societal push by and toward the left into censorship and regressive insanity ends right here for us, we will hold the line right here", but this site isn't it.  For many of us, this is extremely disappointing, as this was our cultural stronghold, our redoubt.  But it isn't any longer, and it cannot be because the establishment that is driving the slide into oblivion, has absolute control of the infrastructure that hosts it.  

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My account has not been hacked or sold.
I would bet the majority of old posters suddenly posting, are situations similar to mine. Just fed up with everything going on and needed somewhere to vent.

This place used to be a refuge for like minded people. It was a tight community. We could bounce ideas or thoughts off of each other. I began back in 1999. But had to create a new account a few years later.

It doesn’t appear to be the same place for the last couple of years. Most people are on the attack now.  I guess all good things come to an end.


I will go back to lurking.

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The left is full of vegans, if I were to sell my account I'm sure folks would wonder what's up...

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Because, years ago, life was good…

Now, you have to hope for the best, in a really bad world…

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But the membership has deteriorated significantly.  We have so many "conservatives" here now, who, when they join the deep discussions, are clearly leftists, commies, and statists, that it blows my fucking mind.

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I was a daily contributor to this site from 1999 until about 2011.  12 years!  Then I had advanced into some national roles in my career, traveling and working constantly, got married, had a wife and two stepkids to prioritize.  I also burned out on Obama's bullshit.....we could always commiserate about all his team's fuckery on this site, but I just got burned out it was getting so pervasive and just fucking nuts, with nothing we could really do about it.

Kids launched successfully, and as Obama's rule drew to a close, I renewed my membership about 2018 or so and started to get more involved again.  

But the membership has deteriorated significantly.  We have so many "conservatives" here now, who, when they join the deep discussions, are clearly leftists, commies, and statists, that it blows my fucking mind.  It's like the most recent generation or two who have joined the site, are fucking clueless.......or malevolent.  

The site operation has deteriorated as well.  I recently got an account warning that really just didn't make any logical sense.  Either people have a limited grasp of the finer points of written comprehension, or the "reason" was just stitched together and acting on the complaint of a low IQ social warrior looking for the slightest hook to complain about.  Regardless, you might as well express your opinion on a modern college campus at this point, because we get the same results.  Accused of a violation of some form of Political Correctness, and Censored.  

So, I will be participating less again.  My posting is going to drop off, a bunch.  I'm tired of arguing with people who think we should all be sacrificing our kids and grandkids financial future to fund the elites trust funds, and fund the use of corrupt proxies to continue the Obama team's dream of militarily and socially defeating the second largest White Christian nation outside of the United States in their multi-decade pursuit of a global defeat of the Advanced Western Civilization that that demographic built.  I'm tired of "you've been here long enough to know you can't refer to black people as Amish", when I didn't.  Let the butthurt leftists, thug apologists, and government information warfare types run all the long time contributors off, and supervise the site based on political correctness and low IQ interpretations of the written word.  It can only increasingly dumb down the content across the site and continue to divide and conquer rational people among the Bill of Rights supporting, America loving, Western Civilization participators that this site used to be for.  Eventually, the original demographic will all be gone.  Replaced with a different membership.  It is a consequence of going "for profit".  It has to mirror society to continue.  

From the perspective of a right leaning, but more libertarian than Republican, white male American Christian who is 100% accepting of people of all races, colors, creed, religion, etc. BUT has a specific set of beliefs about what constitutes proper individual and group behavior in a peaceful and progressive society, underpinned by Personal Responsibility and the Bill of Rights, society is sliding off the cliff.  It is being driven there by the political class with the help of government, NGOs, and SJWs utilizing Fascist media tactics, Propaganda, and political correctness.  Because it has to cater to broader society for it's continued existence and success, to an extent this site reflects that trend.    

There are likely places on the internet that will draw a line in the sand, and say "the constant societal push by and toward the left into censorship and regressive insanity ends right here for us, we will hold the line right here", but this site isn't it.  For many of us, this is extremely disappointing, as this was our cultural stronghold, our redoubt.  But it isn't any longer, and it cannot be because the establishment that is driving the slide into oblivion, has absolute control of the infrastructure that hosts it.  

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Well maybe the account holders do not feel the need to post every fucking piece of their daily lives.
Look at some the enormous post counts some posters have. Christ, put the phone down and go do something.