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The Big Purple's Latest Clown Show Stunt

Started by Cathode Ray, February 11, 2025, 10:38:52 PM

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Cathode Ray

February 11, 2025, 10:38:52 PM
From the Admin of RPG.net....


Their whole community is a hate group; the hypocrisy is laughable.
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Slambo

#1
February 11, 2025, 10:43:26 PM
Wasnt this already a rule over there before

LouGarou

#2
February 11, 2025, 10:52:37 PM
"...formal political neutrality..."

Gu-faw. Fucking when? That place echoes so badly you can't hear yourself think.
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February 12, 2025, 12:38:55 AM
Quote from: Cathode Ray on February 11, 2025, 10:38:52 PMFrom the Admin of RPG.net....


Their whole community is a hate group; the hypocrisy is laughable.


Note to RPG.net Admin:

Phuck You.

Kyle Aaron

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February 12, 2025, 12:41:51 AM
But it's an rpg forum, isn't it? Or supposed to be? Just ban all political discussion.
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Jaeger

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February 12, 2025, 01:06:44 AM
Quote from: Kyle Aaron on February 12, 2025, 12:41:51 AMBut it's an rpg forum, isn't it? Or supposed to be? Just ban all political discussion.

Even when they do that, they don't really do that.

They always, always allow certain groups/people to be the subject of drive-by comments, quips, and snark.

If you try to do that to unapproved targets, you get modded for not being 'inclusive', etc.

Every "politically neutral" forum I've seen does this to various degrees. Every single one.

The truth is that the left are psychologically incapable of any kind of political neutrality. They can never truly just let things be. They always have to get some kind of dig in at the other side...
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February 12, 2025, 01:08:19 AM
Quote from: Kyle Aaron on February 12, 2025, 12:41:51 AMBut it's an rpg forum, isn't it? Or supposed to be? Just ban all political discussion.

They had that discussion years ago. rpg.net is openly partisan and political. Agreement with their political positions is mandatory.
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Ratman_tf

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February 12, 2025, 01:15:21 AM
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung

HappyDaze

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February 12, 2025, 01:39:49 AM
Quote from: Slambo on February 11, 2025, 10:43:26 PMWasnt this already a rule over there before
I'm pretty sure it was, or at least an earlier version of it was.

Reckall

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February 12, 2025, 03:42:24 AM
"Over a year of serious debate."

So, considering that they are talking about his "administration," it has been more than a year since they first noticed the signs.
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February 12, 2025, 04:36:48 AM Last Edit: February 12, 2025, 04:38:44 AM by yosemitemike
That has been a rule over there since Trump's first term. 

Quote from: LouGarou on February 11, 2025, 10:52:37 PM"...formal political neutrality..."

Gu-faw. Fucking when? That place echoes so badly you can't hear yourself think.
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David Johansen

#11
February 12, 2025, 05:28:23 AM
Yeah, they're politically neutral and ideologically significantly left of Karl Marx.

Still, I think what they're saying with this is that they'll ban you for anything which can be interpreted as supporting Trump in the broadest sense.  So don't go saying you like Donald Duck cartoons over there right now as that's probably close enough to cop a permaban.
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SmallMountaineer

#12
February 12, 2025, 07:35:07 AM
So they debated for a year, yet are in near-unanimous agreement... meaning they cried into their echo chamber for months before deciding to renew a virtue signal from seven years ago. Fascinating.
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February 12, 2025, 07:51:36 AM
They're mad about losing their USAID money.
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