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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
(Post 1500468)
There is an over abundance of Obama threads but given the political climate it is understandable. Members must choose what threads they would like to participate in. For those threads that bore or disdain please do not participate.
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What about people who might wish to start a thread on some
general subject, but are discouraged by the fact that many rarely have a chance to be seen before they are quickly pushed to page 2 by one of the 6-10 American political "discussions" posted or active at any time. Or, even worse, are wary of the fact that some Americans will find just about any way they can to recast a subject so as to be seen through the demented prism of their present political debate (the level of which, frankly, would shame a Columbian and increasingly resembles pro-wrestling, but with less believable characters and poorer speechwriting).
One test might be this - would the average person drink in a bar where the content, volume and quality of overheard discussion matches that of Subsim GT? That is, an unending, 120dB, one-note sonic wall of fringe US political invective emanating from a handful of usual-suspect gob****es - ranging from typical variety Jesus/gun/flag/soldier-loving bores to full-on corn-fed cranks with an inexhaustible repertoire of moontalk about the NWO, the coming Apocalypse in America, fluoridation, and Nazis in Antarctica - who, in moments when they are aware of their surroundings, high-five each other in bad taste displays of mutual self-satisfaction...all the while deaf through self-noise to the fact that these hostile and repetitive tracts are thematically
identical to any one of a billion internet threads started in the last three years and which have, in that period, by their number resulted in almost every "General Discussion" board on any forum on the web being relentlessly spammed into a "US Politics" board by default. All of this without consideration to the fact that their treatment of the subject is confusing and depressing to most users outside of the United States, and people who don't reload their own ammunition or bury their food in sealed containers. Now, saturation point having been met long ago on US outlets, a move on British sites has been necessitated - presently this human form of cane toad is busy on the online comments sections of
The Daily Telegraph and
The Guardian, clogging up articles about second homes in the West Country with paranoia about "anchor babies", "Dems", and whether or not Barack Hussein Obama communicates with Jomo Kenyatta through a ouija board or has installed a sweat lodge in the Oval Office.
I sometimes wonder who, the authors excepted, exactly is happy to see a "volume = right" policy succeed in giving a website with broad international appeal such a US-centric and particularly right-wing flavour.
