And there goes another capitan-ism.
Enlighten us, california-boy... what race is nolu chan?
For the life of me, I can't figure out why slurs like that are allowed to go unchecked from you, Espinola, mac, Partisan, and "the gang." You and your buddies spend more time bashing Americans and conservatives than the exiled brigade commander could have dreamed.
There is a growing rift in the Republican party between the religious and small-government conservatives and the "power at any cost so long as we're in charge" folks. You, Partisan, and Espinola are pounding at that wedge with a sledgehammer with every accusation of racism, every time you slur us as rednecks, every time you take a verbal dump on our confederate grandfathers.
If you'd like to discuss the war, the politics, or the politicians, that would be great. These threads used to be at least semi-civilized, and at one time were a great place for people to learn new 'stuff' about the war, the players, and our shared history. Since the arrival of you and Espinola, all of the reasoned Unionists have abandoned them, save Non-Sequitur, who still drops in from time to time. I used to like coming to the WBTS threads, picking up on whatever the hot topic was, and doing some outside reading to get up to speed or learn the unbiased truth. It's been months since that's happened, and nowadays when I click on the thread title, I expect to find nothing useful in the flamewar.
Bump.
Thump-bump.
As the issues have unfolded and been reviewed by them, the Wlat Brigade show themselves to be coming from a position every more closely identifiable with neoliberalism. The chief difference between a neoconservative and a neoliberal being whether we should have a defense department, and whether liberals should try to learn something from the domestic policy failures of the 1950's.
It's getting harder to tell whether they're neoconservatives trying to drive Southern conservatives into an upstairs attic like Crazy Aunt Mary, where they can feed us table scraps and keep us under wraps so as not to embarrass them with their liberal neighbors, and then just wheel us to the polls on election day and bait us into voting a GOP straight ticket with a few down-ballot social initiatives, or whether they're neoliberals straining in the traces with their boy Slick Willie to split the GOP in two.
Racists come in all colors. The last few banned seemed to have all been of the southern persuasion. (I include the one hit wonders who recently stunk up the thread you guys got pulled.)
An excellent point. I have made similar observations to the owners. If you can rein in your drunkards and cheap shot artists, maybe it can get back to that level.
Do I detect a detente?