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Is this forum under a co-ordinated attack from a fascist/trolling group?

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    You live & learn, eh?

    The voice of experience:
    I'm not particularly interested in getting involved in flame fests - they don't really achieve anything.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    juanito wrote:
    The voice of experience:

    And your point is what caller?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The left should be putting a class analysis first and foremost before race, looking at what unites people rather than divides, while still acknowledging differences in culture.

    :yes:

    Brixton, toxteth, Bradford...common link? race? no, white youths were there in toxteth and in brixton side by side with black kids throwing bricks.

    the common link is deprivation and unemployment.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    As a newcomer, I'd like to make one brief comment.
    I have to say it hasn't exactly been a very warm or welcoming entrance. Almost from the start certain posters kep calling me a troll and making abusive personal remarks using words I'm not going to repeat here.
    I noticed that I'm not alone in this. Perhaps you offer all newcomers "a baptism of fire", I don't know, but it won't stop me making contributions as and when I feel its appropriate.
    Thanks. Lets go forward!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    your entrance into the forum has bought forth view which may conflict with those held by people already on this board, so its to be expected that when these meet in debate there is some friction.

    You have been called a troll a bit though, which isnt exactley helpful.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Rich Kid wrote:
    As a newcomer, I'd like to make one brief comment.
    I have to say it hasn't exactly been a very warm or welcoming entrance. Almost from the start certain posters kep calling me a troll and making abusive personal remarks using words I'm not going to repeat here.
    I noticed that I'm not alone in this. Perhaps you offer all newcomers "a baptism of fire", I don't know, but it won't stop me making contributions as and when I feel its appropriate.
    Thanks. Lets go forward!

    Its not normally like this, its just in the last couple of weeks, hopefully it will change back. I havent read enough of your posts to say whether you're this or that, but normally people are relatively nice.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Actually bb, people are nice to those who display some intellectual honesty and capacity for reasoned analysis rather than rabid jingoistic banner waving and provocation. Sadly, Rich Kid burst onto these boards displaying little else and has persisted in that vein since.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Clandestine wrote:
    Actually bb, people are nice to those who display some intellectual honesty and capacity for reasoned analysis rather than rabid jingoistic banner waving and provocation. Sadly, Rich Kid burst onto these boards displaying little else and has persisted in that vein since.

    Oh, ok, as I said I havent read really any of his posts, and I did say 'normally' that people are nice, sometimes the abuse is quite justified.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It would be best to have a system of candidate membership and an entrance test. If Clandestine judges that the applicant displays "intellectual honesty and capacity for reasoned analysis", full membership should be granted. Otherwise, the candidate should be roundly insulted and then banned.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    lol, its an internet forum, not a job application for think tank or summit..........
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    iowtw wrote:
    It would be best to have a system of candidate membership and an entrance test. If Clandestine judges that the applicant displays "intellectual honesty and capacity for reasoned analysis", full membership should be granted. Otherwise, the candidate should be roundly insulted and then banned.
    I think Clandestine wants to keep it as a select club, or as least thats how it comes across to me as a newcomer. Its only a forum for God's sake!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    LOL! You are a piece of work RK. No selectivity about this place, only an indictment against you for the sheer lack of substance you actually contribute to any discussion. We've seen quite a few of your inflammatory ilk come and go over the years.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Clandestine wrote:
    LOL! You are a piece of work RK. No selectivity about this place, only an indictment against you for the sheer lack of substance you actually contribute to any discussion. We've seen quite a few of your inflammatory ilk come and go over the years.
    Thank you Clan for your warm encouraging words! You sound like a really nice person, I'm so lucky that you take time out to make such constructive comments.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I think that you because appeared at the start of the Easter holiday and that you have spent a lot of time starting threads which would inflame the people on this board this has made me think that possibly you are some spotty 13 year old having a laugh, if I am wrong I apologies but that is what I think.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    marv wrote:
    you are some spotty 13 year old having a laugh
    Spotty 13-year-olds should learn not to laugh. It just draws attention to their ache and underdeveloped sense of humour.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Rich Kid wrote:
    As a newcomer, I'd like to make one brief comment.
    I have to say it hasn't exactly been a very warm or welcoming entrance. Almost from the start certain posters kep calling me a troll and making abusive personal remarks using words I'm not going to repeat here.
    I noticed that I'm not alone in this. Perhaps you offer all newcomers "a baptism of fire", I don't know, but it won't stop me making contributions as and when I feel its appropriate.
    Thanks. Lets go forward!
    i don't agree with most of what you say,however,thats not to say you are not welcome.
    i,ve been slated by people on here,which is fine...they have their views,the same as i have mine!
    if nothing else,you're good at playing devils advocate,which is what this place needs to make it interesting,and informative....so welcome!! :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Thanks Deano Mac.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    its at least been interesting to have a bit of a shake up around here
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    MrG wrote:
    its at least been interesting to have a bit of a shake up around here
    Was it getting boring MrG?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    To be fair you have been reluctant to engage with other poster's questions and have shown a pretty high level of inconsistency in your viewpoint. Much as others have been unfair in their treatment of your postings you've also been in a large part involved in dragged many threads in slanging matches.

    In my eyes there are a number of people here who need to accept what debate is and not simply assume it's spouting a personal viewpoint and insulting others views - you included.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Rich Kid wrote:
    Was it getting boring MrG?

    its always interesting to have something new injected into this place
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Hmm it seems Aladdin is getting scared now that the liberal/socialist consensus on the board is finally being challenged.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wouldnt you be a bit scared if you were him :P

    to be hinest though there is stil la difference between trolls, and those with trollish behaviour
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The Matadore wrote:
    Hmm it seems Aladdin is getting scared now that the liberal/socialist consensus on the board is finally being challenged.
    :banghead: What liberal, socialist consensus? If there was a consensus of socialism on this board, I wouldn't be here!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    im a social person

    but just with the drinking and the women
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Its been mentioned before but you can be a liberal without being a socialist and vice versa.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The Matadore wrote:
    Hmm it seems Aladdin is getting scared now that the liberal/socialist consensus on the board is finally being challenged.

    How can there be a liberal/social consensus on a board where you post?


    :confused:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The Matadore wrote:
    Hmm it seems Aladdin is getting scared now that the liberal/socialist consensus on the board is finally being challenged.
    Sensible decent folk of this country have in my view a duty to challenge the morally bankrupt, socially divisive, economically-deficient, spin mercahnts of the liberal/socialist tendency. In my humble view this element of the political spectrum is but an unlanced boil on the backside of the body politic - it needs pricking to release the poisonous puss therein.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yuck!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Rich Kid wrote:
    Sensible decent folk of this country have in my view a duty to challenge the morally bankrupt, socially divisive, economically-deficient, spin mercahnts of the liberal/socialist tendency. In my humble view this element of the political spectrum is but an unlanced boil on the backside of the body politic - it needs pricking to release the poisonous puss therein.

    they have a responsibility, but by no means do they have a duty to do so
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