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    From Jeff Thiele@1:387/26 to All on Saturday, June 11, 2022 19:19:20
    It's a strange society we live in, where profanity is considered more
    dangerous than lies and misinformation.

    However, in an attempt to avoid having my voice silenced here despite
    following the rules, I will now respond to blatant and easily disprovable
    lies with "Bullsh!t."

    I did respond to a few posts before getting to Mike's threat, and I can't
    take them back.

    However, as an addendum, I believe that I can tell (reasonably well enough) when someone is trying to have a serious conversation and when someone is
    just spewing nonsense. And I will be taking that into consideration as well,
    to further minimize the (thinly masked) swearing.

    Jeff.

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:275/99 to Jeff Thiele on Sunday, June 12, 2022 04:01:11
    It's a strange society we live in, where profanity is considered more dangerous than lies and misinformation.

    It's not strange. People have families. Kids, women, elders! It's fun to talk politics in here but I don't want my kids to think that I'm having fun
    swearing back and forth with other adults.

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  • From Jeff Thiele@1:387/26 to Aaron Thomas on Sunday, June 12, 2022 11:09:16
    On 12 Jun 2022, Aaron Thomas said the following...
    It's a strange society we live in, where profanity is considered more dangerous than lies and misinformation.
    It's not strange. People have families. Kids, women, elders! It's fun to talk politics in here but I don't want my kids to think that I'm having fun swearing back and forth with other adults.

    And I suppose you don't mind your kids seeing you lying and being racist, no?

    Jeff.

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  • From Jeff Thiele@1:387/26 to Aaron Thomas on Sunday, June 12, 2022 11:15:21
    On 12 Jun 2022, Aaron Thomas said the following...
    This, then, means that Mike knows that lies and misinformation are be posted here, but chooses to do nothing about it, either as a regular
    None of us have any expertise to talk about lies and/or misinformation. Everyone's either fed the breast milk from Fox News, or the vomit from CNN. None of us can prove anything, other than "this website said this.."

    Apparently some of us have the expertise to know that New York state still
    has cash bail, and the expertise to know that Biden said "white
    supremacists," not "white people."

    And some of us don't.

    Jeff.

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:275/99 to Jeff Thiele on Sunday, June 12, 2022 18:45:03
    And I suppose you don't mind your kids seeing you lying and being
    racist, no?

    I'm not racist but I don't kiss the butts of other colors either.

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:275/99 to Jeff Thiele on Sunday, June 12, 2022 18:50:10
    Apparently some of us have the expertise to know that New York state
    still has cash bail, and the expertise to know that Biden said "white supremacists," not "white people."

    Cash bail is an option for judges, but it's not being used enough.

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  • From Jeff Thiele@1:387/26 to Aaron Thomas on Sunday, June 12, 2022 18:16:06
    On 12 Jun 2022, Aaron Thomas said the following...
    And I suppose you don't mind your kids seeing you lying and being racist, no?
    I'm not racist but I don't kiss the butts of other colors either.

    Given your past statements and opinions, yes you are.

    Jeff.

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  • From Jeff Thiele@1:387/26 to Aaron Thomas on Sunday, June 12, 2022 18:18:14
    On 12 Jun 2022, Aaron Thomas said the following...
    Apparently some of us have the expertise to know that New York state still has cash bail, and the expertise to know that Biden said "white supremacists," not "white people."
    Cash bail is an option for judges, but it's not being used enough.

    That's your opinion. Perhaps you should go to law school and become a judge.

    Jeff.

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:275/99 to Jeff Thiele on Monday, June 13, 2022 00:10:45
    I'm not racist but I don't kiss the butts of other colors either.

    Given your past statements and opinions, yes you are.

    Like what?

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  • From Jeff Thiele@1:387/26 to Aaron Thomas on Sunday, June 12, 2022 21:32:25
    On 13 Jun 2022, Aaron Thomas said the following...
    I'm not racist but I don't kiss the butts of other colors either
    Given your past statements and opinions, yes you are.
    Like what?

    I'm not your archivist. But for starters, the suggestion that I don't "get" black people because ther are no black people in Texas (false).

    Jeff.

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to AARON THOMAS on Monday, June 13, 2022 16:33:00
    It's a strange society we live in, where profanity is considered more dangerous than lies and misinformation.

    It's not strange. People have families. Kids, women, elders! It's fun to talk politics in here but I don't want my kids to think that I'm having fun swearing back and forth with other adults.

    I will sometimes let it go, but when someone that I know often disagrees
    with most of the posts here says they are going to answer every such post
    with profanity, that is something else. Especially when most of their
    current retorts do not contain any links or other information that proves
    that their opinion is any less lies and misinformation than the ones they
    are responding to.


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  • From Jeff Thiele@1:387/26 to Mike Powell on Monday, June 13, 2022 16:20:57
    On 13 Jun 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
    It's a strange society we live in, where profanity is considered mo dangerous than lies and misinformation.
    It's not strange. People have families. Kids, women, elders! It's fun to politics in here but I don't want my kids to think that I'm having fun swearing back and forth with other adults.
    I will sometimes let it go, but when someone that I know often disagrees with most of the posts here says they are going to answer every such post with profanity, that is something else. Especially when most of their current retorts do not contain any links or other information that proves that their opinion is any less lies and misinformation than the ones they are responding to.

    Actually, I only said that I was going to do it for blatant and easily disprovable lies.

    I have been attempting to provide more links. However, if someone makes a
    claim that is disputed, it's generally the responsibility of the person
    making the claim to provide proof.

    Jeff.

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