Title: Banned as well! Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Jun 9, 2007 Author:me Post Date:2007-06-09 14:59:16 by farmfriend Keywords:None Views:15899 Comments:383
Well it looks like I have been banned from LP as well. No warning. I broke no rules either. The only thing I can figure is that I was banned for posting here.
Well it looks like I have been banned from LP as well. No warning. I broke no rules either. The only thing I can figure is that I was banned for posting here.
Sorry to hear that farmfriend. It looks like Goldi is purging posters like swatting flies this past week. Of course, she's banning the people that attempt to engage in rational discussions and apparently allowing the most rabid neocon attack dogs to remain, such as Byteshredder and MadDog.
Mister Clean, who isn't quite a full-fledged bot, also got banned the other day. He'd been rather calm in his discussions, but got banned for a fairly tame comment compared to what these other fanatical nutjobs have hurled at people there.
Somethings up at LP and with Goldi, that's for sure.
Mister Clean, who isn't quite a full-fledged bot, also got banned the other day. He'd been rather calm in his discussions, but got banned for a fairly tame comment compared to what these other fanatical nutjobs have hurled at people there.
No problem. I remember our discussions there, and you appeared to speak rationally and used well reasoned arguments, rather than the standard barrage of ad hominem insults many there rely upon to "make their case".
I suggest though that you take a deep breath and realize that people here see you as a potential adversary. Just lighten up a bit and take it in stride.
From what I have seen from you for the past 6 months.
IMNSHO
You are where many of us were several years ago.
I'll give you one example of where I was a few years ago...
I used to be totally against the "cashless society" believing it to be, as Alex Jones describes it, a "control grid" and privacy killer. I would preach against customer loyalty cards like the folks over at http://spychips.com.
But then I started participating in the "cashless society" and I started using those customer loyalty cards at the grocery store and guess what? Nothing bad happened! In fact, the "cashless society" has proven to be just what it's promoters claim, faster and more convenient than cash and the fact that I can track my spending through software has helped me manage money a lot more efficiently. All the scaremongering and paranoia over the "cashless society" is really just a bunch of bullshit. In fact, most scaremongering and paranoia are pure bullshit.
A few years ago I didn't really understand what America was all about but I do now. Far from being the "land of the free and home of the brave," America is the land of hype and exaggeration and the home of the peaceful consumer. EVERYTHING in America is blown completely out of proportion - the failures, successes, threats, EVERYTHING. Things are usually never as bad or as good as they're made out to be.
Hype rules the day in America whether it's the "we're #1" narcissism to the idea that Muslim radicals threaten our very survival to the idea that we'll be destroyed by global warming to the way the NFL calls the Superbowl champion the "world's" champion or how the media relentlessly hypes up the trivial.
Once you understand that America is all about money and exaggeration, you'll be as calm as David Carradine on "Kung Fu."