POLITICS: Let it go folks

Fios · Post by **Fios** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:35 pm

As a veteran of such arguments, a Redskins chat board is not the place to win converts. We are united by our passion for this football team but that doesn't mean we share a damn thing else in common. And that's fine.
But why encourage animosity amongst the fans here? What is to be gained by it? Were there some hope of convincing a person of the opposing philosophy to switch sides, I'd find those threads useful. But as there is as much chance of that as there is of Pastabally mating without a ton of cash, why even pursue it?
I am guilty of starting those threads and I regret the decision, they are inherently divisive.
I'm not advocating a supression of opinions, I am advocating that it be done in a non-football forum. This is not some futile wish that we all "just get along," rather it's a pragmatic recognition of the discord that will accompany every, single politically-motivated thread.
Have it out left and right because debate is healthy and it serves a purpose.
Just do it somewhere else.
My 2 cents

tazlah · Post by **tazlah** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:45 pm

Okay -- I'll never bring it up again.

Except now -- I don't like our Prime Minister! :shock:

Fios · Post by **Fios** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:49 pm

So it's going to be like that is it? OK, I'll go ahead and up the ante: All of your opinions are stupid

Gibbs' Hog · Post by **Gibbs' Hog** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:37 pm

A quote, if I may, directly from thehogs.net...

Category: Non-Football
The Lounge
Wanna talk about politics, your favorite hockey team... vegetarian recipes?

Now, I understand that I have no power to make a convert out of anyone, but without some other issues to disagree on (at least in the offseason) we might all be bored.

I think the good thing is that even though some of us disagree in politics, we can go the Hog Wash and agree on how great the Skins are.

My 2 cents

General Failure · Post by **General Failure** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:40 pm

You've got your tenses mixed up.

Gibbs' Hog · Post by **Gibbs' Hog** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:48 pm

You've got your fan sites mixed up.

General Failure · Post by **General Failure** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:55 pm

... this isn't the Tarja Turunen fansite?

Gibbs' Hog · Post by **Gibbs' Hog** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:57 pm

Close, but no cigar.

General Failure · Post by **General Failure** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:58 pm

Gibbs' Hog · Post by **Gibbs' Hog** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:05 pm

Fios wrote:Have it out left and right because debate is healthy and it serves a purpose.

Just do it somewhere else.

I don't have time. I'm here WAY too often. Can't I have my cake and eat it too? (which, by the way, is probably the worst cliche in the world) :lol:

Fios · Post by **Fios** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:12 pm

I'm not disputing your right to do it, per se, I'm questioning the wisdom of doing it. It's argument for the sake of argument.
No it isn't.
Yes, it is.
NO, it isn't.
YES it is.
Yeah? Well screw you me!
No, screw me you ... um ... you get the point

Gibbs' Hog · Post by **Gibbs' Hog** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:13 pm

No I don't.

Gibbs' Hog · Post by **Gibbs' Hog** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:14 pm

No I don't.

Please explain again. and again. and again.

Fios · Post by **Fios** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:19 pm

Here is a simple, easy-to-remember formula:
Fios = always and invariably correct

Gibbs' Hog · Post by **Gibbs' Hog** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:41 pm

I think the Aqua Teen Hunger Force is polluting your brain, man :lol:

Fios · Post by **Fios** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:48 pm

Gibbs' Hog wrote:I think the Aqua Teen Hunger Force is polluting your brain, man

You are wrong (see my last post)

Gibbs' Hog · Post by **Gibbs' Hog** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:58 pm

General Failure · Post by **General Failure** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:59 pm

He doesn't even have a brain. You pop his lid and you'll see his insides are melted ice and a little bit of cola.

Fios · Post by **Fios** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:00 pm

General Failure wrote:He doesn't even have a brain. You pop his lid and you'll see his insides are melted ice and a little bit of cola.

There's some rum in there too!

General Failure · Post by **General Failure** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:02 pm

Natch. But rum isn't exactly a brain, now is it.

Fios · Post by **Fios** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:06 pm

No, however, But-Rum (the rum that makes you go "she's ugly, but ...") is!

Gibbs' Hog · Post by **Gibbs' Hog** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:06 pm

I don't know about rum, but the scotchy scotch scotch definately takes up some space in my cerebral cortex!

Fios · Post by **Fios** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:11 pm

You need to give me money

Redskin in Canada · Post by **Redskin in Canada** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:38 pm

I do not participate in political threads. I have to deal with the World as it is, not as I would like it to be.

It is always good for me to think about what can be done NOW to solve problems and conflicts instead of waiting for the "perfect" politician to arrive and solve all of our problems.

By the way, and perhaps to irritate everybody, I have seen and sometimes even met very good and effective politicians from very different ideological perspectives. In the end, as time passes, I am more confident about capable people rather than idelogical tendencies.

I must admit I started on an ideological basis but I do not feel that way anymore. I have also known of and met terrible and ineffective politicians from different tendencies that have done nothing but create disasters wherever they have gone.

Most things come down to common sense, human skills and hard work...

... like football :shock:

skins81 · Post by **skins81** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 11:42 am

All Republicans are right wing fascists.
Wait. All Democrats are liberal pinkos. All... I can't remember.

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