I thought the exact same thing, laughed, and sent it to the rest of the LetsRun team.
*compliment, not complement, you ignorant right wing POS
Wejo, so someone emails you in confidence, and your reaction-you're a grown adult, remember--is to not only laugh at them, but to email everyone at LRC AND post it on the boards for everyone else to laugh at?
Guess we figured out who wrote LRC. Your use of hyphens and spacing is interesting for someone who likes to act as the grammar and spelling police.
Regardless of your political leanings, it is kind of sad to see the mental gymnastics that some of the left in the U.S. are twisting themselves in to to justify their hatred (of which I don't really blame them but the habitually mendacious and bombastic media/propaganda outfits that bombard them every day). Crimea under Obama, nothing under 45, Ukraine under Biden and somehow Trump is the one who is easy on Putin...
Having viable positions and alternatives to ideas is pretty important in my opinion, which is why it is sad for me to see the left-wing of the U.S. just completely debase themselves over the last few years to the point where they cannot be taken seriously by anyone who is not already part of their tribe. Thinking everyone who doesn't agree with you on every little thing is a Russian bot has got to be not only personally damaging, but also a losing strategy to bring people in the middle (who have been "warred out" and don't want boots on foreign soil when we haven't been attacked) to your positions.
*compliment, not complement, you ignorant right wing POS
Wejo, so someone emails you in confidence, and your reaction-you're a grown adult, remember--is to not only laugh at them, but to email everyone at LRC AND post it on the boards for everyone else to laugh at?
Subject: Nice job fomenting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Body: By allowing right wing trolls on your board to show their support for Putin (due to Trump’s support of Putin), you have helped to create a situation in which Putin thought he could get away with invading Ukraine, which he is currently doing
Congrats
Wow! What?! Is this serious? I mean, I know Letsrun is the center of the universe and all, but who in their right mind (or left mind in this case) would actually think such a thing?
Right-wing trolls DO exist here, of course, but they have zero effect on anything.
Subject: Nice job fomenting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Body: By allowing right wing trolls on your board to show their support for Putin (due to Trump’s support of Putin), you have helped to create a situation in which Putin thought he could get away with invading Ukraine, which he is currently doing
Congrats
The causation set forth in the email -- that a running message board could in any way embolden some psycho dictator in Russia -- is obviously nuts.
That said, it is surprising, even for someone familiar with the usual political trolling here, just how many anti-American/pro-Putin posts there have been here in the last 24-48 hours. Maybe that's all the email sender was trying to convey?
The ultimate hero of the brosjo, rush limbaugh, is in Hell right now pooping his diapers with glee over the invasion by Russia. If they could drag themselves off of their couches, Robert and Weldon would be marching straight to the Russian embassy to ask how they could support Putin even more than they do now.
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The goal of the forums is not to only present one world view (which I guess would be mine) to everyone else. I know I don't have all the answers so we welcome debate and discussion. Some don't like reading viewpoints they disagree with.
The problem I see with the forum is not seeing viewpoints with which I disagree. The problem is that a (probably small) number of persons saturate the "discussion" with crap posts.
You don't have a "differing point of views" problem, you have a problem mitigating the impact of assholes whose sole aim seems to be derailing the potential for anything like reasonable discussion.
The left never takes accountability for their problems. Always someone else's fault. Yet theyll be the first to gloat and pat themselves on the back if they have a success like a blind mouse finding cheese once in a while.
Right-wing trolls DO exist here, of course, but they have zero effect on anything.
Nope, wrong. They drive away reasonable long-time forum visitors and leave nothing but the trolls and the indifferent. This place is a ghost of what it used to be, you can measure the gap between quality running threads in weeks if not months when it used to be minutes.
I agree with the email. Letsrun and its tolerance for right wing trolls and paid Russian trolls as well is a big part of the problem. Is it because if you'd disallow the lies and conspiracies that get posted here you'd get cut off from your trust fund Weldon?
exactly. Rather than focus on the problem the email addresses, Wejo makes fun of the person writing the email.
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