@wallstreetcappers
You wrote earlier this paragraph that caught my attention:
We do not talk issues and policy in this forum we talk about how much we dislike Biden or dislike Trump or how the dems are responsible for all the illegals and the debt and inflation or how the repubs are to blame. Its all about blame finger pointing and not really about anything of substance or value.
I would venture a guess that the reason why nobody talks policy is the second someone posts a fact, they get spammed by the “own the libs” crowd that fact doesn’t exist. It must be untrue.
Examples:
- I posted about how my taxes went up under Trump because he killed a popular, 50-year old deduction. Immediately accused of being a liar or a dotard. The problem must not exist, too inconvenient.
- I post about insurance rates going through the roof in Florida and California, and how that could be a pretty big issue. Told it is at the bottom of the issues pile.
- Post about John Kelly admitting Trump called war dead losers and suckers. It apparently never happened, even though this is the guy who literally ran the show for Trump for a year+.
- Any facts about how Trump’s policies encouraged inflation is attacked as not real. Really, tariffs do cause inflation. Really, telling the Fed chair not to raise rates for 16 quarters in a row causes inflation.
- Any post about how immigrants pay taxes is ridiculed, despite my immigrant neighbors struggling to pay their taxes, and many experiences with other immigrants paying taxes. (Employers who have someone on the books are going to pay taxes for that person, and that person will also file a return. Nobody is stupid enough to trigger an audit over stuff like that. And you don’t see the IRS returning tax $$$ when 22 people are using the same SSN.)
- A post about Trump’s felony conviction is immediately attacked as not real because “they got” Alex Jones “in the same week.” That one had me fly off the handle because Alex Jones literally encouraged death threats against parents of grieving six-year olds. I took a few days off from this forum after that. Jones didn’t even raise a defense in his case, yet he’s not liable? Okay …
Any attempt to discuss facts is met with:
- that’s not true
- whataboutism
- doesn’t exist
- he didn’t say that even though he did
- 1,000 word zero content s#itposts, immediately followed by acting like a victim
Zero incentive to discuss legit policy in this environment. Still fun to bring up facts, but I don’t expect the zoo to have a good faith discussion. Difficult to encourage a balanced discussion when the gallery is contending that Alex Jones declaring bankruptcy over the nine-figure judgment that (he failed to even try to defend) is evidence of a grand governmental conspiracy.
No beef with you of course, amigo! I do enjoy a lot of your posts, and just liked a number of your posts after my self-imposed break.