I really want that ignore feature.

And I’ve never talked about your children or wife. Seriously, why do you bother to post here every 3 months to try to stir the pot with Buzz and I. Im sure you’ll be insulting ID soon, and making up stories about him too.

Several forums? Name them. I’ve posted at two forums in the past 13 years - this one and yours. I left your forum and deleted over 1k of my posts there 8 months before you banned me, so you created a story and lied through your teeth because “banning me” 8 months since I last logged in was the only thing you could do.

You discredit yourself by showing the title of the thread you pitched a fit on to get me banned at HTGTH 13 years ago, because I called you your real name. You made up stories about stealing your identity, and chasing me out of your front yard. Just like you are claiming I ever threatened, let alone mentioned your family in any way.  All this because you publicly listed your name on your website, which I called you after you took photos of me from my public site that I foolishly shared, and created a poll of both Brody and I in uniform, and Lofton for good measure, of which one of us is the biggest American loser - at the height of the Iraq war. You’re a real class act. Fuck me for taking it personal.

Then you invite me to your forum and make me a moderator. You were totally in fear and being extorted.
I only have a bakers dozen of automated alert emails in my throwaway gmail account from our private messages where you sign off your PMs with your name.

You wanted this conversation, so let’s put it all out there. None of the bullshit. Tell it like it is.

I had no idea you had a newborn until you posted it here in your fabrication blog asking to ban me. You know why?  Because I don’t want to engage with you!  I left your forum nearly a year before you banned me - I didn’t care to check in! Hell, I almost exclusively interacted with Freedom the year before I left, because he’s the only one who’s opinion I ever wanted to hear.  I wasn’t interacting with you then! I don’t come to your forum because I don’t want the negativity of interacting with you - the same reason I wanted Mitch to quit posting in the only style he showed himself capable of. I didn’t even advocate for his ban!  Look at my post when someone else brought it up. I just don’t think it’s cool to use those words and accuse everyone else of being a bigot. You clearly do, as you only came back to defend him.

You only post here to bait Buzz and I. I’m not the boogeyman you’ve built me up to be. I’m not Trump, and Trump isn’t even the Trump you’ve created in your head. I’m not your outlet for all your rage. This isn’t the medium for that.

I’m not interested in engaging with you, and wish you no ill will. I don’t think you’re someone capable of having a civil conversation, and your online persona and post history is evidence of that.

We get it, you want attention. But I genuinely have no interest in engaging with you, and it’s clear no one else does either.

So insult me, call me by my real name (anyone can look at my karma to see you doing just that), steal more photos of me and insult my military service. I don’t care, because I don’t respect you.

I hope you find whatever it is you’re looking for, but if it’s a fight, I’m not interested.

I loved the books as a kid, but felt they’d be better as quick tales from the crypt episodes rather than a movie.

I watched The Long Shot yesterday. I had heard it was crap, but I enjoyed it. No way Charlize Theron would date Seth Rogen, but I felt it was intelligently written.

What kind of insurance? What’s the cutoff for “need”?

I’m generally against taking money from people who have paid into it. Does a multi-millionaire need it?  Probably not. But what about someone who retires with 2 million in their 401k? If I live to 87, that’d give me 100k a year to live on. Is that a comfortable lifestyle? Sure, but what if I saved assuming I’d get that extra 30k a year to pay for vacations and trips I couldn’t take in my youth? To say nothing about inheritance.

I think I disagree with your original premise. I think socialism can only exist where it’s supported by the majority of the population. In a western world, if you’re of average intelligence and not traumatized by poor upbringing, your odds of success are much higher in what every western nation would call a capitalist society. True socialist nations like Venezuela and the USSR, only survived because the people accepted that suffering because it was superior to the quality of life before.

Either we become a quasi-Utopian society, or the victors of Armageddon start from scratch. Whether it be nuclear war, biological, or climate change, things as they are can’t continue.

Who in their right mind would choose to remain in a place like Sudan when the possibility of a life in a big 5 western nation is present?  Especially if those nations are hesitant to keep out or remove those who illegally enter? At what point do these nations take the necessary steps to keep these people out, and could they survive the public unrest?  Seriously, half this country is outraged that people with final deportation orders are forcibly removed. What happens when millions more decide to roll the dice and enter the US or EU en mass?  What happens when far left groups commission charters that bring migrants to the shores of Norway or Canada?  It’s happening in the Mediterranean now.

All of that is a way to say that the western standard of living and enlightenment values are under a direct threat. And half of the west is not only in denial about it, they celebrate and advocate for it.

That’s really what socialism is - the idea that people can be free of need. Marx makes that clear. It’s a very attractive idea, and people are vying for position to claim that they’re the most disenfranchised to get to the front of the line. Everyone wants to be part of the proletariat, and that’s how socialism happens and culture is destroyed.

I saw that earlier, but none of the yahoos saying that have a real shot at winning. And the odds of the Dems getting the senate are on par with the GOP taking the house - maybe slightly worse.

Ginsburg came out against it, so good luck selling moderates like Manchin even if they pull off a simple majority.

We’re at the point that removing people who had their day in court and were issued a final removal is labeled as “racist”, so as much as I want a real challenger to Trump, it isn’t looking well for the left in 2020.

All good!  Thanks, Neemo!