JFC, the Constitution has nothing to do with censorship on this board. Nobody reads you Miranda Rights when you have a post taken down, either. How is it two Ivy grads attract such a circus of moron around them?
It is obscure. I love this site but it attracts runners. A couple hundred active users is my best guess. So no, Chinese and Russian agents are not on Let's Run you paranoid tinfoil hat clown. Please change your news sources.
Here is a list of the US Web Sites with the most traffic. Go find Let's Run.....
I did notice that, in one of Putin's speeches to the Russian people, he referred to the American leadership as "a bunch of morans." Proof that he is a follower of Letsrun.com!
Funny to observe how easily manipulated the public are when it comes to war. If their party is in power, people will typically beat the drums of "we need to protect democracy," and all sorts of high minded justifications for standing up to tyrants. If the opposition is in power there is nothing but vitriol and disdain for embroiling us in foreign conflict for ignoble reasons. This is typical of most people. I merely suggest that people take a deep breath, step back and try to critically analyze the situation as best they can, and realize their limitations in doing so. Also, wake up and realize that our media are proven partisan liars who can not be trusted.
This is nothing to make light of Weldon. While LRC is not the lynchpin of this situation, your post conveys a callous disregard for the violence and suffering going on at this moment in Ukraine. I find it ironic that your moderators will go to extraordinary lengths to protect certain posters from attack and ridicule that they invite, but you see fit to make fun of a poster's e-mail and, by extension, a military conflict that is taking civilian lives.
Its always amusing to see people who live in Portland talk tough when it comes to war. But dont actually fight themselves. You are 6000+ miles away from the violence all safe and tucked away at luc lac, nostrana, deschutes brewery or wherever the F you stuff your face
sounds nice. I’d meet you for a beer at deschutes sometimes my dude.
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
is he/she really wrong?
Yes, he/she is really wrong. Postings on LetsRun.com have exactly zero influence on geopolitics.
I did notice that, in one of Putin's speeches to the Russian people, he referred to the American leadership as "a bunch of morans." Proof that he is a follower of Letsrun.com!
Putin's people are making up 20% of the active LRC posters here.
They'd be exactly right if they had just stopped without adding the fomenting Russia's invasion. Why you deliberately host Russian trolls on your site with their constant support for Putin and the invasion, I have no idea.
Its always amusing to see people who live in Portland talk tough when it comes to war. But dont actually fight themselves. You are 6000+ miles away from the violence all safe and tucked away at luc lac, nostrana, deschutes brewery or wherever the F you stuff your face
sounds nice. I’d meet you for a beer at deschutes sometimes my dude.
The_Real_Bullet_Proof is of course bullet proof s/he is behind a keyboard. This poster is too dumb to discern discourse from tough talk but so many on the fringes of the left and right are this way.
I would have thought that LRC was fertile recruiting ground for Russian operatives, chock full of gullible disenchanted right wing manchildren. But as I said in a recently deleted post, I'm surprised to learn from the new LRC rating system that Trumpers are actually only 20%-25% of posters.
It's a complete joke when you profess support of free speech when your mods all these years have been scrubbing posts and threads by the left constantly. Classic that you then say that the far left, in criticizing your hosting Russian trolls, carmine9/das Unkle/coevett and others, who cover these boards with Russian propaganda, is like the far right (the ones supporting Putin's bloody invasion). You have erased so many threads that I and others have started over the years on legitimate political topics, but from the left, and then come on here to claim that you support free speech absolutism. That is the joke.
This is nothing to make light of Weldon. While LRC is not the lynchpin of this situation, your post conveys a callous disregard for the violence and suffering going on at this moment in Ukraine. I find it ironic that your moderators will go to extraordinary lengths to protect certain posters from attack and ridicule that they invite, but you see fit to make fun of a poster's e-mail and, by extension, a military conflict that is taking civilian lives.
My apologies. I am not trying to make light of the situation in the Ukraine at all. I was very troubled by it. I was more amused that with a terrible situation going on half way around the world, that someone immediately thought, "this is letsrun's fault."
Putin is a ruthless killer.
As for bots, with some of the Russian doping stuff I got a few emails that opened me up to the possibility that Russia might try and influence opinion on here but there weren't a lot of places where Russian doping is discussed on the internet in English.
You are, or should be too smart, to misrepresent the point of the post. LetsRun celebrates Right wing whackos who celebrate Putin, autocracy, and division in America. The poster did not say you are responsible but you are one of many who has contributed to Putin’s goal of division in America where Putin, a killer and autocrat, is seen as better than Biden or any democracy. The recent changes to the message boards is an improvement that mitigates some of the madness of the swamps of LetsRun, but it seems you still need the affirmations of whackos to validate the uniqueness of your message boards and hide behind a false understanding of freedom of expression to do so.
You are, or should be too smart, to misrepresent the point of the post. LetsRun celebrates Right wing whackos who celebrate Putin, autocracy, and division in America. The poster did not say you are responsible but you are one of many who has contributed to Putin’s goal of division in America where Putin, a killer and autocrat, is seen as better than Biden or any democracy. The recent changes to the message boards is an improvement that mitigates some of the madness of the swamps of LetsRun, but it seems you still need the affirmations of whackos to validate the uniqueness of your message boards and hide behind a false understanding of freedom of expression to do so.
This is nothing to make light of Weldon. While LRC is not the lynchpin of this situation, your post conveys a callous disregard for the violence and suffering going on at this moment in Ukraine. I find it ironic that your moderators will go to extraordinary lengths to protect certain posters from attack and ridicule that they invite, but you see fit to make fun of a poster's e-mail and, by extension, a military conflict that is taking civilian lives.
Why are you being Russophobic? And why do you believe anyone who disagrees with you - for example, not wanting to send hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine - is a “Russian troll”?
wejo, maybe you didn't cause the invasion, but this place does little about the Russian bots and their propaganda. This is a general internet phenomenon, not just a LRC issue. But yes, this place IS a part of the problem.
The usual arrogant call for censorship. What is wrong with this demented excuse for a "left" in the US? Their dogmatic quest to censor all "misinformation" and political wrongthink is revolting.
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