Opinion of the permabanned posters: Haley/Ryan

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

HP but if he said anything banworthy I must have missed it

He had a tendency to derail threads, for a recent notable example see how he turned a thread about any attempted votes of confidence against Mike Johnson into an argument about...DC statehood, and while that by itself may not be ban-worthy (and as I've said before I actually consider people who take the bait and keep the arguments going for others who often do this like Fuzzy Bear and SnowLabrador to be worse than they are), the mods did specifically say he was thin ice upon his return after his temp ban for calling for ethnic cleansing in Gaza and he still was making posts kind of alluding to that.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Of course Australian immigration policy is racist (at least in practice), OSR. You're not going to make left-of-center posters any more sympathetic to an Australian-inspired approach to...anything to do with race relations, really, by going around bleating "points-based system, points-based system" like you're a medieval sorcerer going "SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS".

In OSR's defense, there was a time when Trump made some tweets praising Australian immigration policy and some Orwellian posters they put up in common points of origin to Australia, and about half of the responses in opposition were the sort of stereotypically moronic liberal Twitterites trying to "um, actually" and construe some weird ass argument as to why this is not the same thing as what Trump's administration was doing and why he was worse instead of just saying "Yeah Australia is really bad on immigration too" like the other half were.

(The other really infuriating example of this was when Josh Hawley made some tweet about how he was pushing for a bill to mandate teaching the Constitution and Declaration of Independence in all schools and while about half the replies were correctly pointing out it was the dumbest virtue-signaliest bill ever as there's not a school in the country that doesn't teach those things a bunch inexplicably instead decided to use a "YOU WANT TO MANDATE TEACHING DOCUMENTS WRITTEN BY SLAVE OWNERS!!!!" line of attack.)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

My favorite OSR-ism is when he says stuff like “if you think Ronald Reagan was racist, then Richard Nixon was too!” like it’s supposed to be a gotcha moment.

My favorite was that time he tried to convince this forum that electing the liberal candidate to the Wisconsin Supreme Court would undo Scott Walker's legacy...and that that was a bad thing that we would be upset.