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I got a nasty little note from a mod about this avatar:

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Can we not mock our politicians for being hypocrites and doing ACTUAL "cultural appropriation" when they think it suits them?

Anyway, I did change it to something else only because after thinking about it further, I'll give Elizabeth Warren the benefit of the doubt for now.

Hopefully she doesn't turn out to be another Rachel Dolezal however.
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You're on a video game forum. Maybe post about the game once in a while?
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Nightshade wrote: Mon Mar 19, 2018 12:40 pm I got a nasty little note from a mod about this avatar:

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Can we not mock our politicians for being hypocrites and doing ACTUAL "cultural appropriation" when they think it suits them?

Anyway, I did change it to something else only because after thinking about it further, I'll give Elizabeth Warren the benefit of the doubt for now.

Hopefully she doesn't turn out to be another Rachel Dolezal however.
I take exception to your comment that my message was "nasty". Towards Trump perhaps, but not you personally. It was more of a an attempt to perhaps help you avert the inevitable personal insults YOU would invariably receive because of the image you chose and that I, as mod, would have to delete. That's why I kept my comments to you in a personal message and not as a public posting. Not anymore however, since you kind of back-handed dissed me in this post, although I don't know if Jeff also commented.

But yes, you are free to express your political views anyway you want, including insulting politicians using your avatar. Heaven knows I've thrown my fair share of insults towards political figures on this forum, although I usually don't like to use my avatar as a political statement. Your new one is kind of original and eye catching too. I tend to think of an avatar as something fun and personal, but to each his own poison. :wink:
PM to Nightshade from Tunnelcat wrote:Really NS? Your avatar is now a Trump insult that's nothing but schoolyard bully trash talk? I mean, who cares? In the grand scheme of things, it's unimportant. So you're going to sink down to Trump's level and latch onto his "Pocahontas" insult meme? Trump's a man who has no virtue and tells constant lies just to fit his narrative. A man who doubled down on the Birther Movement and still refuses to accept Obama's Birth Certificate. I mean, why even bother? I know you're smarter than that and you've said you don't really like Trump, so why give his idiot taunts any legitimacy and perhaps invite ridicule upon yourself? Or worse, make work for me when I have to constantly delete the inevitable insult posts from the usual suspects, vision, slick or TopGun. You're probably going to get them too.
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Tunnelcat wrote: Mon Mar 19, 2018 2:01 pm That's why I kept my comments to you in a personal message and not as a public posting. Not anymore however, since you kind of back-handed dissed me in this post, although I don't know if Jeff also commented.
I wasn't referring to you TC...it was Krom. He was like 'change your avatar now or else.'

I guess I forgot that you commented to me before he did. I suppose I should have been more specific about it being Krom that had a threatening tone. :P
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Well, you can't say I didn't warn you. I just didn't think Krom would put HIS foot down. :lol:
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Tunnelcat wrote: Mon Mar 19, 2018 4:07 pm Well, you can't say I didn't warn you. I just didn't think Krom would put HIS foot down. :lol:
All I see is a double standard.

So yeah, I'm done I think. Welcome to a leftist echo chamber with no opposition, and a dead debate board.

It'd be best for you to leave too Woody and Spidey. This board is a waste of time.
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Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out!
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You won't be missed.
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tout a l'heure.
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Nightshade wrote: Tue Mar 20, 2018 2:49 pm
Tunnelcat wrote: Mon Mar 19, 2018 4:07 pm Well, you can't say I didn't warn you. I just didn't think Krom would put HIS foot down. :lol:
All I see is a double standard.

So yeah, I'm done I think. Welcome to a leftist echo chamber with no opposition, and a dead debate board.

It'd be best for you to leave too Woody and Spidey. This board is a waste of time.
I'm afraid I'll have to agree with you, at least in part with what ultimately transpired with your avatar. Make no mistake, I personally thought it was denigrating and personally insulting to Warren, whether or not you agree with her politics. You pretty much sank down to the same level that Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump have all done, by demanding that their women accusers produce some sort of PROOF of any unwanted sexual advances or assaults from the past, even though most of what happened was a he said she said situation that occurred in private. Their word was not good enough, even when multiple women detailed the exact same incidents with the exact same men. You yourself refused to believe Warren's statements about how she learned about her Native American heritage by word of mouth from her family. The fact she wouldn't take an ancestry test was proof to you that she was lying for political gain and needed some nasty ridiculing. That's kind of petty don't you think? There are far worse things going on in the world right now to worry about than something as stupid as that.

But my question is, why were you told to remove your avatar when woodchip also had an insulting Obama witch doctor avatar up for long time as well. Every lefty here bitched about how insulting and racist it was, yet no higher ups here told him to remove it. :wink:
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If you read other posters reactions to the avatar immediately after he started using it, the answer should be obvious. Not that I wasn't momentarily amused at the idea of seeing if Top Gun could blow up enough to reach some second or third level transformation as a result of it.

Woodchips socialism avatar was dumb and I'm not making that mistake again.
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Nah, sorry, I kept my SSJ3 to NHB. :P
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Nightshade drew the reaction he wanted and now gets is persecution complex validated.
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Vander wrote: Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:18 am Nightshade drew the reaction he wanted and now gets is persecution complex validated.
Yeah, you're right. Come to think of it, he loved to constantly throw rancid right wing bombs all over the E&C, but he rarely held a dialog to back up his assertions and points with something approaching anything factual. Instead, he'd just keep carpet bombing the place with more and more outlandish stuff. You really had to rub him the wrong way before he'd engage people in any of this threads. So now when his nasty insulting choice of avatar gets vetoed, he promptly bails. Where's your cojones NS? You know he can't resist lurking. :wink:
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ahhhh, I figure he finally grasped that it really isn't the Muslims we need to worry about, and realized he'd wasted years of rhetoric, or schtick, depending on your viewpoint:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kans ... SKBN1GY381
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Well, that would probably be totally ignored by NS as leftist propaganda right now. If he was still here, he'd be posting all about that most recent Muslim terrorist attack that just happened in a French supermarket. :wink:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/hos ... d=53960102
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both the left and the right are retarded
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Burlyman wrote: Sat Mar 31, 2018 7:17 pm both the left and the right are retarded
Meanwhile, the squishy middle either sits on their hands and ignores everything because they don't have the time or worse, swipes right or left depending on their whims or whoever is better at playing to their fears at the moment.
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Unfortunately most of the middle, like the vast majority of the human population, are foolish mortals.
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