Is this Sandbox too political?

[HDGristle]

Tangents and hijacking are common to most forms of two-way discussions. It doesn't happen in every thread. Isn't always a bad thing.

To get this back on track, when it involves political rancor, blatant distortions and trolling it goes in very wild directions, enflames passions that makes it more difficult to get back to the point AND typically furthers the gap rather than bridge it.

There's more posturing and less actual discussion. Which drags on the culture.

[AmishGangster]

Originally Posted by HDGristle

Tangents and hijacking are common to most forms of two-way discussions. It doesn't happen in every thread. Isn't always a bad thing.

To get this back on track, when it involves political rancor, blatant distortions and trolling it goes in very wild directions, enflames passions that makes it more difficult to get back to the point AND typically furthers the gap rather than bridge it.

There's more posturing and less actual discussion. Which drags on the culture.

Thats all true, that gap still has a ways to go before it starts to get filled in

[bambino]

Originally Posted by AmishGangster

Thats all true, that gap still has a ways to go before it starts to get filled in

Herd them to Gitmo. Problem solved.

[Dreamgurrl]

Originally Posted by AmishGangster

This is icky, hijacking threADs is in the bylaws . You have been here since ASPD, can you honestly say that this board or Indys was ever not one hijack after another?

Did you get an infraction for calling it icky and being off topic or was that just me

[AmishGangster]

Originally Posted by Dreamgurrl

Did you get an infraction for calling it icky and being off topic or was that just me

Just you. So far

[Salty Again]

Amish-mate wasn't off-topic. ... And calling the thread icky
or hi-jacking threads icky aint much of a insult to anybody.

Unless there's a poster named Icky.
And he or she is offended.

### Salty

[Devo]

Originally Posted by HDGristle

That's not how I would see equilibrium. Still work to be done. Progress? Sure. Sustainable? We'll see. Can we or will we draw in more folks for convos? Is it replicatable?

Sustainable cultural shifts don't just happen overnight. And as we've seen in this thread, resistance to change is high.

Look at how many clicks we've generated just from having a handful of people disagree with and mock my viewpoint. Imagine how many more we can generate with a greater variety of content.

I'm still interested in getting more opinions from others though. Let's see if they weigh in.

Hmmmm.

Progress.

Sustainable.

Cultural shifts?

You know what I am thinking?

I think this is nothing but a long winded diatribe trying to generate something other than Conservative politics in this forum.

All the arguments are against the vast majority of threads that favor one political side of the argument, and, make a sly but very visible attempt to generate the opposite.

I mean, tea, yeah, tea, how many people on these boards are hard core Tea-o-phytes, I mean, I'm sure we got a few Manbun mongers, metrosexuals who feel the need to find some strange, but they have to be few and far between.

I do know that the hard core discussion of tea in the forum will draw some hits......(eyes rolling).

Further, its also appearing to appease the providers who have chimed in on this thread.

If I wanted to be civilized, I wouldn't be at eccie in the first place, as, it is a bit of counter counter culture, as well as a morally corrupt and illegal activity we are discussing.

The more I read this thread, the more I can see its more about lowering our testosterone, and becoming softer and gentler.

Well, fuck that.

Fuck sustainability, fuck the electric cars, fuck the Greta bullshit, this is the Sandbox.

I'm gonna scratch my nuts, drink beer, probably jerk off to some Japanese vomit porn, then, I'll piss outside, and go spin some donuts on my quad, or Jeep, and then watch the Kneelers get their assed kicked, and finish the night off with a nice slug of bourbon, Wild Turkey to be exact, hoping that the losing record in the playoffs gets our affirmative action coach a plane ticket.

Because, all the woke bullshit has destroyed the team I used to love, and, to hell with it, you gotta find fun, even when its rooting for the other team.

Younze all can enjoy your tea....

[HDGristle]

Let's keep the politics out of this

[Devo]

Originally Posted by HDGristle

Let's keep the politics out of this

Now is the part where we throw our heads back and laugh....

[Dreamgurrl]

Originally Posted by AmishGangster

Just you. So far

Figures

[HDGristle]

Originally Posted by Devo

Now is the part where we throw our heads back and laugh....

Laugh as needed. Decompress. As has been stated multiple times I'm questioning the political rancor, not the politics themselves. The bullshit on the left trying to bully the right is just as much to blame as the right bullying the left.

Tea was Salty's thread.

[Salty Again]

Crikey! ... Pissing on me tea thread! ... Surely poor form there.
I didn't piss on Bam's TP thread (well, I did, but still...).

I got mates who drink a good litre of Turner's tea everyday.
Tea is almost in the direction of essential as Bam's spirits thread.
Almost kinda sort-of.

### Salty

[HDGristle]

Some legit new posts, some shitposts and some more politics. How are we enjoying ourselves with slightly less political rancor?

[HDGristle]

So much for less political rancor

[Devo]

Yeah, I think a few of us saw your wheels spinning from the start.

On the bright side, we learned about 'roid treatments.