I need to consider . . .

[Fuzzy Bear]

. . . giving up posting on USGD.

There are 27 subforums on this Forum.  I need to avoid USGD like the plague and focus on the more substantial forums. 

That is all.

[Fuzzy Bear]

You spent all day of Thanksgiving obsessively spamming the forum complaining about Ferguson97, and you spent Christmas Day complaining about Vlodomir Zelenskyy.  Perhaps the problem isn't just the USGD subforum specifically, but rather… you?

Or take Young Texan's advice and retreat further into the safe space bubble y'all created.

I go to discord to hang with friends.  I go there for one reason; I come here for another.

They're my friends over there.  You're my enemy.  I don't use that word lightly, but, quite frankly, you are an awful human being.  Now Jesus told believers "Love your enemies."  Any good will you receive from me comes from my obedience to that Scripture.

Ferguson97 deserved everything he got.  He was sanctioned for beyond the pale personal attacks on my with a mute on only one forum, on the basis that he did his damage only on that forum.  So imagine my response when i found the same personal attack made by him in the Forum Community forum.  It's too late and he got away with his personal attack without missing a day of posting.  And you defent him and apologize for him.  You're fine with what he said, and fine that he was, for all intents and purposes, unsanctioned.  It was a case of a lighter penalty for a Red Avatar and the reason you didn't like my posts is that you've personally attacked posters in ways that violate the ToS and nothing happened to you.

USGD is the land of Red Avatars formulating and maintaining false narratives, and launching vicious personal attacks against those who try to interrupt those narratives.  I can't persuade any number of people to be decent and reasonable in their interactions with other people, but I can decide to do what's good for my mental health.  There are other forums that do have more substantive discussion, and I've figured out that if I post there and ProudModerate2 comes to troll me, he'll come off as the ignorant troll he is, because the discussions are more substantive and transpartisan in other Forums.  You deserve the sewer of USGD; you're a big reason it is the kind of subforum it is.

I don't need an echo chamber.  Unlike you, I can stand alone and defend my position without needing to mobilize others to dogpile people (as you and a number of Red Avatars do).  But I have decided what's good for me.  You can have USGD to yourself. 

[Fuzzy Bear]

You spent all day of Thanksgiving obsessively spamming the forum complaining about Ferguson97, and you spent Christmas Day complaining about Vlodomir Zelenskyy.  Perhaps the problem isn't just the USGD subforum specifically, but rather… you?

Or take Young Texan's advice and retreat further into the safe space bubble y'all created.

I go to discord to hang with friends.  I go there for one reason; I come here for another.

They're my friends over there.  You're my enemy.  I don't use that word lightly, but, quite frankly, you are an awful human being.

I stopped reading right here, so you could have saved yourself all that time and effort typing out everything that followed.  Though I know how much pleasure it seems to give you to type endless reams of useless blather.

I sincerely hope my twilight years aren't spent as utterly miserably as you are evidently spending yours.  You're the embodiment of a cautionary tale for the rest of us.

Opinions vary.  If I've kept you from being a 100% FF on some poll, too bad.

You've earned you status with me.

[Fuzzy Bear]

...dropping out of Talk Elections entirely?  Yes, I think you should definitely consider it. 

So you can post lies about me, as you have before?

Sorry, but it's not happening.

[Fuzzy Bear]

You're my enemy.  I don't use that word lightly, but, quite frankly, you are an awful human being. 

Jesus Christ (especially appropriate given the little Jesus quote you put in after that). Well, I suppose now I feel quite a bit better about considering you an awful human being. Until now I've always felt a little guilty about doing so, thinking you might not be a bad person outside of your politics, but if you're willing to consider people you're "enemies" and "awful human beings" over political disagreements, I suppose (your politics aside) you are, in fact, an awful human being.

I can stand alone and defend my position

Only because you provided such an excellent opportunity for my doing so: You've said dozens of times the 2020 election was "stolen" from Trump. Since you can "defend your position," I will ask you for evidence (you see, claims - claims made by anyone, red avatar, blue avatar, friend, enemy, conservative hero or liberal scum - are typically supported by evidence in order to be considered credible).

https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/08/applying-international-standards-to-2020-elections/

https://will-law.org/teigen-v-wisconsin-elections-commission/

https://www.wpr.org/gableman-report-calls-decertifying-2020-election-legislatures-nonpartisan-lawyers-say-thats-not

I've posted these before.  I have not said "Trump Won!"  I am disappointed that the SCOTUS did not consider cases that involve Constitutional questions that remain today.  I have said that the conduct of the 2020 election was a rigging of the entire process by changing the way people vote, censoring relevant information on Social Media, etc.  The process WAS rigged, and every break went one way.  And the conduct of the media, Democratic officials, Big Tech, etc. give people every right to think that way.  (To this very day they wish to censor the public meltdown of a Pfizer exec who said the quiet part out loud about what Pfizer does.)

I don't feel the way I do about Joe Republic because he disagrees with me politically.  I feel the way I feel about him because of years of unwarranted personal attacks.  He signed off on Ferguson97's personal attacks on me, and presents the issue as my being upset at the leniency of the sanction.

Perhaps I should be more like the late mother of a Pastor of mine.  This woman prayed for years for a co-worker to get Saved.  Now this co-worker was not a nice person; in addition to being an unbeliever, she had a nasty persona, and was nasty to this woman (who worked well into her 80s).  And her diligence was rewarded; the woman not only got saved, but she expressed sincere regret for treating her like crap for so long.  Not every case of praying for your enemies works out that way, to be sure.  I am going to have to consider it.  But Joe Republic isn't someone who is a decent person with whom I disagree.  He's someone who's trashed me over time.  That's not OK. 

[Fuzzy Bear]

You spent all day of Thanksgiving obsessively spamming the forum complaining about Ferguson97, and you spent Christmas Day complaining about Vlodomir Zelenskyy.  Perhaps the problem isn't just the USGD subforum specifically, but rather… you?

Or take Young Texan's advice and retreat further into the safe space bubble y'all created.

The personal attacks started here.  Joe didn't have to be insulting, but he couldn't resist.

I can resist the temptation to be snide and insulting.  It's obvious some Red Avatars can't.