2024 US Presidential Election

[Chazore]

Chrkeller said:

the-pi-guy said:

Semantics matter, they're what drive people's understandings of a situation. It's practically what a lot of subjects like the law are built on.

So many of these conversations could have easily been avoided, if you were able to step back and say "you've misunderstood me" or "there's been a miscommunication", "Sorry, that's not quite what I was meaning."

Instead you like to antagonize and believe you are superior; rather than accept that you are a human being with the same kinds of flaws that everyone else has. The struggle to challenge your own beliefs. That you have the same struggles to communicate and be unbiased that everyone else has. 

You do the same thing that you're accusing Ryuu of. You got all upset when he said X, when you meant Y, and made dozens of posts fighting a semantics battle, instead of ever admitting that maybe the way you wrote things in the first place left room for misunderstandings. 

I hope you achieve some personal growth by getting off your high horse, and recognize that most of us are not out to get you.

And as a bonus, recognize that the world is complicated, and adding some nuance and semantics is important to understand how most things work. 

Two way street.  Someone could ask for clarification instead of dogpiling with "your wrong."  Hell didn't you literally make up a best friend story in the UK call me out?  I am pretty sure that was you.  Lol.  Please.  

And funny nobody is out to get me but a mod is pulling off topic information and now is going after me on my wall...  and who are you defending?  Oh yeah, the guy pulling off topic information and going after me on my wall.

Amazing to me how you can't see your own irony.  

It's no real secret that mods tend to stick up for other mods (Not saying this to be vindictive, just from an observational standpoint). I have been on this site for years and I've barely ever seen one mod to another to get them to either back down or calm down. What I have seen from my own eyes over time, is defence and dogpile approaches and that has always resulted in backlash (I've also seen this across countless forums over the decades, unless it's 4chan, where it's a mod eat mod world over there).

Now I don't like Seeing Ryuu getting the way he is, I know he's not in the right head space right now (the back and forth's are enough to tell me this), but you mods need to actually sit down and actually talk to your community, because things as they are, are starting to break up a bit here and there. 

I've had Pem at me, and now I'm seeing Ryuu at Chr, and now I'm seeing Pi just picking what side they were already a part of (moderation). This is not painting a good look. I know you're all human just like me and everyone else, but your position on this site does not give you the last say or the moral high compass. You are 100% fallible and now is not the time to act like you are not. 

Ryuu going to someone's wall is not the best course of action, it should have been done in DM's, or off-site, because that was clearly turning into a personal matter.

Ryuu I have nothing against you mate, you're a good bean, you always have been, but this is not the time to do what you are doing, this isn't solving anything.

Please, I implore ya'll to sit down and talk about it more rationally. This is my first time peeking my head into the politics board (over the past few days I mean, I've never really thought to look into it until recently), and now I realise why people get riled up outside of it against one another. I honestly believe the politics board is a mistake to have on any site, because it often brings our irrational discussions (especially that user who was acting extremely nasty a couple of days ago that deservedly got perma'd), and brews hate for one another. 

Please, can we all just sit down, play some games and chill out for the weekend and come back to this on Monday or something?. I just feel like something is reaching a boiling point and something nasty is going to happen.

(Ryuu if you need to talk to me in DM's, I'm all ears dude). 

I'm not making this post to pick any side. I'm making this post because it's clear that this board has heated some folks up in a bad way, and it's not going anywhere good. Also this will by my last post in the Pol board. I don't want to argue within it, because I've seen what that's been like on Twitter over the yrs, and even disco servers with Pol threads. 

Last edited by Chazore - 6 days ago