Ash wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 14:43:
Indeed the difference between growing up and growing old is on display here.

Beautifully succinct.

Blue wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 16:51:
You seem to interpret anyone disagreeing with one of your hot takes as flaming and personal attacks. Which is then followed by you engaging in flaming and personal attacks.
You are not in the right. I'm asking you to examine this pattern and rethink your approach.

Morgan Freeman, narrator:

But deep down, Blue knew nothing would change in spite of his best efforts and hopes.

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You seem to interpret anyone disagreeing with one of your hot takes as flaming and personal attacks. Which is then followed by you engaging in flaming and personal attacks.

You are not in the right. I'm asking you to examine this pattern and rethink your approach.

WannaLogAlready wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 15:34:

Veinman wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 15:12:

Beamer wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 14:09:
At some point, Cutter probably should be banned.

There's no "probably" about it.

If I may respectfully dissent, hearing only what we want we create a closed environment, and end falsely thinking that everything is like it should.
Besides, Cutter, with ups and downs like we all have, has also had very valuable opinions, and is part of this house to me and I personally would miss him if he were gone.
We enjoy a fine moderator, thanks, imho no more is needed.

Cutter wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 16:35:

Veinman wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 15:12:

Beamer wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 14:09:
At some point, Cutter probably should be banned.

There's no "probably" about it.

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Though it'd be pretty impressive if I had a time machine to create a troll account from 2003.

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Veinman wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 15:12:

Beamer wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 14:09:
At some point, Cutter probably should be banned.

There's no "probably" about it.

If I may respectfully dissent, hearing only what we want we create a closed environment, and end falsely thinking that everything is like it should.
Besides, Cutter, with ups and downs like we all have, has also had very valuable opinions, and is part of this house to me and I personally would miss him if he were gone.
We enjoy a fine moderator, thanks, imho no more is needed.

Beamer wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 14:09:
At some point, Cutter probably should be banned.

There's no "probably" about it.

Lemme just dip my toes into politics to declare women are second class citizens.... lets see how well that goes

Beamer wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 14:09:
At some point, Cutter probably should be banned.

But I think that some here are missing his point, but that's largely his fault. In an article about a company parting ways with its CEO, he's whining about "woke companies" not cutting ties with other companies. Which makes no sense. It has no purpose here, he doesn't explain it well, and it's yet another example of a grown man yelling at a cloud.

Indeed the difference between growing up and growing old is on display here.

All the whines about freedom. I have the freedom to own a gun, not the freedom to shoot who I want.
I can say anything, but there is a price.

At the core of all of this, is one huge hypocritical thing.

Freedom to talk about removing abortion because we're free to talk about anything we want, but this situation which is a removal of freedom of choice to the woman.

Also, when you are a CEO (brand ambassador) you're not a 9-5 worker, you're the 24/7 face of that company. period. And if the ceo is the face of a company that has investors, he might have cost them some $$$.

If there is one thing that will always trump freedom, its money.

Gotta love America.

Aren't we all just screaming in to the void at this point?

Newton's Third Law of Motion applies to politics, business, society, and culture as well.

I don't see why this is surprising or even remotely objectionable. Become a liability to your company's bottom line, get forced out. It's been this way for as long as there have been companies. I don't really see what the alternative is other than admitting capitalism is evil and money shouldn't be the deciding factor for literally everything that happens in the world.

CEO and stupid, don't believe he will learn his lesson.
That "law" is an inhuman monstruosity out of Belarus or Stalin's Russia.
It shows the sadly accelerating descent of part of the USA into the hells of irrationality.

And on the subject of media manipulation, nothing new about it on *all* sides.
But the gross farefaced mercenary merchantilism of attacking the people's health and the country institutions, is staggering.
If unexpectedly the Murdochs could make more money supporting Democrats or whatever, instead of fear and hate, Fox News would unashamedly change the tune in a month.


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At some point, Cutter probably should be banned.

But I think that some here are missing his point, but that's largely his fault. In an article about a company parting ways with its CEO, he's whining about "woke companies" not cutting ties with other companies. Which makes no sense. It has no purpose here, he doesn't explain it well, and it's yet another example of a grown man yelling at a cloud.

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LOC wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 12:46:
What I don't get is the people who scream from the clouds about freedom of speech this and that - don't seem to understand how freedom of speech is supposed to work.

It seems fairly frequent that those yelling about how their freedom of speech is being suppressed confuse Freedom of Speech with Freedom from Consequences.

A good old XKCD on the subject
https://xkcd.com/1357/

Beamer wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 11:33:
Why did Jamie Tartt find it so hard to find a new job despite being one of the best premier league players? Because he was a distraction.

... What? Who? The fictional person or am I missing something?

I just hope there will be Killing Floor 3. I still play KF2 daily.