Ministry of Truth?

[hollodero]

(05-18-2022, 05:27 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I understand your point, but I don't and never will operate that way.  If I say something inaccurate then please call me on it.  I will not apologize for making accurate statements, even if they can be used by others to justify their own falsehoods.  Again, I'm a personal freedom guy, I don't take responsibility for the actions of adults.  I have routinely called out the 01/06 riot, and did so from the very beginning.  I'm not going to feel responsible for people cherry picking posts of mine to prop up their agenda.

Fair enough. Nothing more to be expected than to be understood.

I guess part of my motivation was to have people see what your stance really is. Mission accomplished :) is my way to put a lid on that debate, that might in the end be a tad unnnecessary.

(05-18-2022, 05:27 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: That's very easy to explain.  One, until very recently there weren't very many conservative posters here.  Bfine, michaelsean and Brad (and I don't honestly count Brad the same way I don't count Forever Spinning for the left leaning posters) were pretty much the only regulars.  They had no shortage of people willing to call out their perceived hypocrisy.  I'm not a pile on type of guy, if someone else has made the same point I would have made I see no reason to restate the point myself.  Consequently, again until very recently, the left leaning posters had very few people calling them out.  Michaelsean will do so, but he's amore laid back type of dude.  Bfine certainly did, and may have gone too far on occasion (IMO no further than some left leaning posters who are still here, but that's my opinion and not a criticism of the moderation here, which I find to be largely fair and consistent).  So that essentially just left me.  So I can understand your perception being what it is, and I'll honestly give it some thought and maybe you've got more of a point than I'm admitting to myself, but I don't feel it's because of a bias one way or the other.  In the end, for most of the country I'd be considered a liberal, and certainly not a right winger.

That's my perception as well. That you're actually much more of a moderate liberal/Biden guy than a Trump guy. Far left, not so much, but more and more that just comes with being reasonable.
Bfine should not be banned, and as far as I know, isn't banned. Idle to determine whether he went too far or further than others. For years I got along with him just fine, from my perspective, until I didn't, but what gives. - I developed an attitude of not caring if no one or everyone is on my side, and that includes going with the majority and piling up (I usually try to be respectful and polite, but in the end it still could be just that) if that's how I feel. I'd feel any other approach, like factoring in how the ratio of liberals to conservatives looks like, in the end would make me deliberately inconsistent. This is not meant to be a backhand critizism, rather an explanation why your take sometimes seems odd and unbalanced to me, but that's just my perception and not objective reality.