lolReminds me of that uncle you want to get along with well, but you avoid discussing politics so as to not f up the relationship.
Open challenge. Forum wide. Convince me. I thrive on challenge.
How is The Thriller not hateful to the right, republicans and conservatives. Hate is the key word.
I don’t make these statements about anyone else. I’m clearly the outlier. That by itself is cause for reflection. At the least. How can it not be if anyone attempts any level of intellectual honesty?
But my evidence is his post history by itself. Constant anti right, and trump, spamming. 24/7. Advocating financial hardship for “trumpers” to teach them a lesson. Calling Bush a demagogue. Calling 10s of millions of Americans racist and sexist... go read it. Literally, it’s all there.
Again. I openly admit. I’m the extreme outlier here. No one else has this stance, at least not openly. Only me. So what the ****? It has to be me right?
So gauntlet thrown. I’m listening. And will honestly try to do my best to be open and thoughtful.
Show me better.
I absolutely have this same exact stance. And for what it's worth, it's not just him, there are several posters here guilty of the same nonsense.
I applaud you for calling out people on both sides of the political spectrum when you feel that they are being hateful or unreasonable, and you absolutely do.
I don't see Thriller being focused on individual posters much and being hateful towards them in personal ways. He's a huge Democratic Party fanboy and has his homer glasses on too tight a lot of the time, but I see him going after political ideas and not people. Maybe I'm wrong and I gloss over him making hateful personal attacks, but that's my impression of him.
I’ll agree that he avoids attacking posters here. He isn’t personal like that with anyone here. I also think he is an honest person with obvious intellect.
But again, he is hateful toward 10s of millions of our fellow Americans and I have a problem with that. It’s not ok.
I just don’t get it. I truly don’t.
“If we can avoid doing violence to the minds of unseen others on the internet, others will learn to do the same. And then perhaps our internet traffic will cease to look like one, great bloody accident.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
We can’t even avoid doing violence to others when we look them in the eye. Why would it be different given the safe anonymity of the Internet?
Really? So if we're all sitting around someone's living room, instead of the anonymous venue of the Internet, we're still going to troll each other to our faces, bad mouth each other, etc? I do believe we would behave better when we're all live and in living color. Anonymity encourages incivility I do believe. In person removes that anonymity, and we might think twice before simply slamming someone just because they have a different view then our own.
So, as far as behaving better online, sure, we don't have to try. I just think the deterioration of civility in our society overall, has been aided by how we behave in the anonymity of the Internet. Just a theory of mine, that's all.
He absolutely has a history of attacking other posters. I did a quick search and decided to actually repost one from GF about thriller's attacks on me when I finally decided I'd had enough of both that and his insane leftist vitriol and put him on ignore. I've only ever ignored 2 posters in this site really, and that one I do not regret in the least.I’ll agree that he avoids attacking posters here. He isn’t personal like that with anyone here. I also think he is an honest person with obvious intellect.
But again, he is hateful toward 10s of millions of our fellow Americans and I have a problem with that. It’s not ok.
I just don’t get it. I truly don’t.
I disagree for the most part. He’s on a level of his own. Closest I’ve seen is Straightline with his Nazi comment. But that’s comprised in part of trolling fun.
He's attacked me on a personal level too.He absolutely has a history of attacking other posters. I did a quick search and decided to actually repost one from GF about thriller's attacks on me when I finally decided I'd had enough of both that and his insane leftist vitriol and put him on ignore. I've only ever ignored 2 posters in this site really, and that one I do not regret in the least.
https://jazzfanz.com/threads/all-gun-control-advocates-please-report-here.68546/page-3#post-1424755
Everyone all of a sudden pretending he is just a benign passionate left-wing nut is just ********. He's absolutely been as bad as Dutch ever was, he's just more articulate and actually can be conversed with from time to time. Otherwise the hate he spews is both general and specific.
He's attacked me on a personal level too.
Hate is indeed the key word. It means "feel intense or passionate dislike", apparently. The Thriller is certainly passionate, as his voluminous posting and willingness to defend every word of it shows, and he does express a strong dislike. So I agree that he hates "the right", and certain politicians on the right.
The more interesting question is whether, and to what degree, his hate is misplaced, wrongly aimed, or unfair.
You certainly don't know whether or not they support someone who brags about assaulting women and defends white supremacists. Oh, wait...Individually it can be fair. People like Trump, and McConnell, are deserving. Are they not? But 10s of millions? When you know nothing about them? Not even their names?
How is that not a major red flag?
You certainly don't know whether or not they support someone who brags about assaulting women and defends white supremacists. Oh, wait...