Even the queers don't like Obama

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

Given all that anger and the fact that many relevant stories relating to Obama and his admin arise in a given day, they are going to end up on the forum.If you don't like it, then don't read it!

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/faq...._item_language

Please do not engage in "topic spamming", where you post several threads on the essentially the same topic in a short period of time. If you want to discuss women's synchronized swimming, fine; start a topic on it. But don't start another topic on women's synchronized swimming clothing, women's synchronized swimming schedules, etc. for several weeks. Same goes with threads on politics, religon, and cultural issues. We don't need six threads on "Obama is ruining America" and eight topics on "Arabs are Evillll!" on the same page.

[Oberon]

Please continue this here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=175285

[Gerald]

I agree with it, wondering what to do if Mr. Obama were on hand

[AngusJS]

Originally Posted by Aramike

Bottom line? There's a palpable anger out there regarding this guy.

Nice work, Captain Obvious.

[Cohaagen]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

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.

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.

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by Cohaagen

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

I realise it's ex context, but I love this image.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Cohaagen

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.

I wish that my own prose was so succinct. I've posted on the subject for about a week and never came anywhere near the central point as you did in three paragraphs.

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by AngusJS

Nice work, Captain Obvious.

Didn't seem too obvious to certain individuals earlier in the thread.

Despite that, remember to salute the captain!

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Cohaagen

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.

[Cohaagen]

Thanks, guys. I was only moved to comment because things have been so consistently bad for so long. To the point, in fact, that I almost feel excluded from GT, as I suspect do many others outside of the US and, probably to a lesser extent, within.

I simply cannot understand why, with the whole internet to fill up with this crap (and believe me, they're trying), we need another general discussion board loaded to snapping point with right-wing diuresis cut n' pasted from blogs and possessing a tone that is usually reserved for shortwave radio, with nothing to serve as an interlude or counterbalance between each new post except perhaps Skybird posting his latest humourless thesis talking down at everyone.

To illustrate my point, I recently visited the IMDb board for the Mel Gibson film Edge Of Darkness, a remake of a BBC miniseries I'm very fond of, to look for topics discussing differences in the two versions. There were none to be seen, though I did find:

"What;'s wrong with selling NUKES? I WISH the US still Did This"
"This is actually a very, very right-wing anti-government movie"
"Would you trust Fox News lol? **Spoilers**"
"Very liberal friendly movie (Spoilers)"
"Why did the bad guy not have a picture of Obama?"
"Typical Liberal Claptrap"
"A Mass. Republican?!"
"I didn't know John Kerry was Republican!"

You get the picture. I just think it is deeply unfair to expect people outside the US to tolerate this constant stream of loudmouthed provocation and deliberate nuisance attempts even when its sheer mass edges out other discussion. One side, at any rate, seems to be privately itching for a civil war and, as one who has to perform a pavement dance around the dog turds they leave all over the internet, I frankly would not be opposed to that provided they switch their computers off while they're doing it.