Quote from: Ras Algethi;1054572Yeah, it's not like theRPGSite had a "Fuck ICE" like pin on ever single fucking page of the forum for weeks... yep, RPG.Net the place for lack of politics. :rolleyes:

Holy shit, yes, this! Man, I couldn't believe that. What's next? No personal attacks allowed unless it's white, straight, Christian, Republican, pro-Trump, cis-gendered men who eat Papa John's? The mind and heart are there, luckily the spine isn't. Yet.

Yep, and the narrative being suggested of course is that somehow ICE, Trump, and racism are to blame.

Meanwhile, these three White Europeans weren't even denied entry by ICE -- U.S. Customs did that. ICE was tasked with overnight detention because there were no flights back until morning. This is pretty typical when being denied entry to a foreign country.

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Quote from: Zalman;1054588Yep, and the narrative being suggested of course is that somehow ICE, Trump, and racism are to blame.

Meanwhile, these three White Europeans weren't even denied entry by ICE -- U.S. Customs did that. ICE was tasked with overnight detention because there were no flights back until morning. This is pretty typical when being denied entry to a foreign country.

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Facts and TDS should not be mixed.

Quote from: Zalman;1054588Yep, and the narrative being suggested of course is that somehow ICE, Trump, and racism are to blame.

Why let a slow news day story go to waste when you can turn it into a controversy? It is the leftist way.

Quote from: Koltar;1054450One Question......:

What the Eff does it have to do with Role Playing Games??

- Ed C.

The government is doing playtest for the PARANOIA: Live Action Role-Playing Game.

JG

Quote from: Brad;1054578After reading this stupid thread, I'm reminded why I took a several year hiatus. Welp, adios again.

Wimp.....
Were you cyber stalked across two gaming forums as well?

- Ed C.

Quote from: Larsdangly;1054571I like making fun of rpg.net as much as the next person, but at the moment their tabletop open forum is a lot better than this one. This place has had multiple political threads going on the first page for months now, whereas you can visit rpg.net Open without encountering anything like that. They'll ban you if you call someone an asshole (by the way: you are an asshole!). And I'm sure you can find febrile political threads in some sub forum or another. But this place has let the infection spread throughout the host's body, and is now almost overrun. It's as shame, because it was a pretty cool place a couple of years ago. No more.

Well call me what you want. At least I'm not a hypocrite who views their favored websites through rose colored glasses. I rather be a asshole than a boot licking hypocrite. As Ras has pointed out rpg.net is really not political except for that "FucK ICE" pin on every page for weeks. Unless your living in a fantasy world that place is 1000 times worse than here. Try saying what you said to me to one of their favored site darlings or worse a mod and see how far that gets you. Then again your probably afraid they will ban you for offsite behavior for daring to criticize them so better to trash this place then be banned from there.

Quote from: Ras Algethi;1054572Yeah, it's not like theRPGSite had a "Fuck ICE" like pin on ever single fucking page of the forum for weeks... yep, RPG.Net the place for lack of politics. :rolleyes:

Careful don't let facts get in the way of his outrage at this site.

Quote from: KingCheops;1054425What tipped ICE off was probably honesty.  The customs official probably asked them what they were there for, the visitors gave an honest answer, and got nailed for not having their stuff in order.

Thinking on it I have a feeling you are probably right on that.

Firstly, this really should have been in Pundit's forum.

Secondly, the US Customs agency and ICE have been doing this for decades. Wether or not that's a good thing or not is debatable, but debatable elsewhere. However, if this has only become a problem for you since Nov 2016, I suggest a long hard look in the mirror and perhaps a reassessment of one's priorities.

Quote from: KingCheops;1054425What tipped ICE off was probably honesty.  The customs official probably asked them what they were there for, the visitors gave an honest answer, and got nailed for not having their stuff in order.

Quote from: Omega;1054617Thinking on it I have a feeling you are probably right on that.

Isn't it interesting that ICE, the current lefty cause du jour, is getting the heat on this issue when it was U.S. Customs that stopped and denied their entry. It's funny how the narrative is more important than the facts.

Quote from: Ratman_tf;1054537So do you think that Brutal Deprivation is an accurate description of being handcuffed and detained?

Sounds like a decent Saturday to me...

...Ahem.

I'll leave now.

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1054618Firstly, this really should have been in Pundit's forum.

Secondly, the US Customs agency and ICE have been doing this for decades. Wether or not that's a good thing or not is debatable, but debatable elsewhere. However, if this has only become a problem for you since Nov 2016, I suggest a long hard look in the mirror and perhaps a reassessment of one's priorities.

Well that is part of the eternal problem. Alot of things people now-a-days get in an uproar about turn out to be fairly common and/or been a thing for sometimes decades.

Quote from: Ras Algethi;1054622Isn't it interesting that ICE, the current lefty cause du jour, is getting the heat on this issue when it was U.S. Customs that stopped and denied their entry. It's funny how the narrative is more important than the facts.

I was referring to the point that the three likely just said why they were there unaware they were there under the wrong visa.

But nice spin doctoring there to suit your own agenda.

I remember when this site was about RPGs...

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;1054441I am all for there being a hard "no politics" in the main forum.

100% agree. I've supported "no politics in the main" repeatedly and while I understand RPGPundit's feeling that "Politics in RPGs" must be in the main forum, I wish he'd change his mind. But it's his site and he's made it clear its an important stance for him.  And since we live in the "everything is political" era, then we're gonna see more online nonsense and offline wankery.

But since Pundy declared the main forum is a mosh pit, I'm gonna mosh for maximum LOLZ! Cause this shit is hysterical.

Quote from: Ratman_tf;1054548And I certainly do not consider any of these scenarios "Brutal deprivation".

Everybody needs to STFU about brutal deprivation. I once went 72 days without a French press or a waterbed.

Quote from: Opaopajr;1054566The veneer of civilization is THIN. :eek:

People who haven't traveled outside of the West don't understand this. Everywhere is not Mainstreet USA.

As you said so well, our constitution does NOT travel with us.

Quote from: James Gillen;1054601The government is doing playtest for the PARANOIA: Live Action Role-Playing Game.

No wonder I'm having so much fun!