You may have noticed a distinct lack of return2ozma. This is due to their admitting, in a public comment, that their engagement here is in bad faith:

I’m sure there will be questions, let me see if I can address the most obvious ones:

  1. Can I still post negative stuff about Biden?

Absolutely! We have zero interest in running an echo chamber. However, if ALL you’re posting is negative, you may want to re-think your priorities. You get out of the world what you put into it and all that.

  1. Why now?

Presumption of innocence. It may be my own fault, but I do try to think the best of people, and even though they were posting negative articles, they weren’t necessarily WRONG. Biden’s poll numbers, particularly in minority demographics ARE in the shitter. They are starting to get better, but he still has a hell of a hill to climb.

  1. Why a 30 day temp ban and not a permanent ban?

The articles return2ozma shared weren’t bad, faked, or from some wing-nut bias site like “beforeitsnews.com”, they were legitimate articles from established and respected news agencies, pointing out the valid problems Biden faces.

The problem was ONLY posting the negatives, over and over and then openly admitting that dishonest enagement is their purpose.

Had they all been bullshit articles? It would not have taken anywhere near this much time to lay the ban and it would have been permanent.

30 days seems enough time for them to re-think their strategery and come back to engage honestly.

tl;dr - https://youtu.be/C6BYzLIqKB8#t=7s

    • theprogressivist
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      Which party tried to overthrow the government again? And is still trying to?

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          (Criticizing the government does not count as trying to overthrow it, even if you’re lying to do so. Advancing an impeachment process or taking violent action against the government counts.)

          Lol, so you’re saying lying in order to stop the will of the people is not considered trying overthrowing the government? Trying to stop the certification of an elected official, raiding the capital, building a gallow to hang the VP, not to mention trying to activate the national guard to stop the certification process. Not fascist at all, according to you.

          There’s nothing wrong about critiquing the government, but if you’re willfully ignoring everything that’s happened even before the 2016 election, you’re not arguing in good faith, champ.

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              Lying is totally a right by the First Amendment, no matter what your goal is with it.

              I never said otherwise, but they lied and still are in an attempt to overturn the election.

              is that you can’t say that the “Republican Party did this” when “who did this” were a bunch of civilians who weren’t being run directly by the Republican Party.

              Lowering them goalposts.

              You absolutely can, who lead the charge? Who organized the entire rally? Who helped bus in the Republicans from all over the country? The GOP. They are complicit and are the ones who organized the entire coup attempt. On top of being in kahoots with right-wing militias like the proud boys who their leader (who has been charged) also had an active role on J6

    • @btaf45
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      And I am very curious on which metric you use to say that Republicans are fascists and Democrats aren’t.

      WTF Have you not been paying attention to current events? Support for American values of democracy and freedom.

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        That must be why they voted to renew the patriot act every 3 years since 2002, because they value freedom.

        Please. All the worst legislation is bipartisan. Republicans are just stupid enough to say the quiet part out loud.

        • @btaf45
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          All the worst legislation is bipartisan

          Mostly true. Because most of the Republican Party is made up of unamerican neofascists.

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          The same values that are used as justification by the two parties to invade/intervene in any country that has something that interests the US?

          No. That that is almost never the US justification for war. But yes, saving South Korea from being ruled by the North Korean dictator was a great thing.

          And seriously, what democracy? In which you “elect” the president in an indirect system that does not necessarily elect the most voted by the people?

          So that is the same as “fascism”. GTFO with that ridiculous nonsense.

          I call this a joke of a democracy.

          Because you are not comparing it with the absence of democracy, You are comparing it with a perfect democracy. The absence of a perfect democracy is not a “joke”, it is the difference between fascism and non-fascism.

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              No matter what your opinion of the North Korean regime, to praise this war is to praise mass murder.

              Dude nobody is praising North Koreans and Chinese for their war of aggression and mass murder. Also please stop your implied racism against South Koreans by undervaluing their freedom.

              This has been used as at least a minor motive in Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq, to ​​name a few.

              Sort of true with Korea and Vietnam. Not true at all with the rest.

              The consequences are there to be seen.

              Yes the consequences are very apparent. South Korea is a thriving free democracy. North Korea is still the worst country in the world to live.

              There is no such thing as “incomplete democracy”:

              That’s why nobody is claiming there is. There is a measurable scale for how good a democracy is. Starting with the obvious “Is there freedom of the press?” and going to stuff like: Is every vote weighed the same? Is it easy to vote?

              Not “same” as fascism, but not democracy at all.

              Not democracy because votes are grouped by states? How idiotic can you get?

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                  I wasn’t talking about North Korea and Chinese actions

                  North Korea is responsible for the war. The USA and UN is not. Are you saying it would be bad for the US or UN to help defend any country from an unprovoked attack? So Britain and France were responsible for WWII and not Germany? What utter nonsense.

                  And you are praising this war when you say it was “nice”.

                  I’m not praising the war. North Korea’s war of aggression was terrible and cost many lives. I am praising the United Nation’s role preserving freedom in South Korea. The United Nations was authorized by the Security Council to defend South Korea. You undervaluing the freedom of Asians sounds like racism. It’s easy for you to say that Asians do not deserve freedom, but you would think radically differently if YOU were the one living in North Korea.

                  talked endlessly about how each of these countries was ruled by a terrible dictator

                  Dude Afghanistan was attacked by NATO because they attacked the USA. Iraq was attacked because Bush was alleging weapons of mass destruction. Democracy was a SIDE EFFECT, the not reason for war.

                  This scale is ridiculous

                  The pretense that there is no scale and it is black or white is what is ridiculous.

                  the division of delegates is not strictly proportional to the population of the states.

                  Which makes the US an imperfect democracy, not a dictatorship. It is not all the way to perfect on the scale.

      • Victoria Antoinette
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        both parties claim they are the true defenders of american values of democracy and freedom. is it possible neither actually is?

        • @btaf45
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          It is theoretically possible but not in fact the case at all. The War On Democracy always comes from the Republican Party

          • Victoria Antoinette
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            obama had a kill list and extrajudicially murdered us citizens. bill clinton signed the welfare reform and the crime bill and he signed off on moving the us embassy to jerusalem. under kennedy, we went into vietnam.

            democrats don’t value democracy. they do what the war machine wants, and sometimes that means having a war against democracy.

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              obama had a kill list .

              Yes. Osama Bin Laden.

              bill clinton signed the welfare reform and the crime bill and he signed off on moving the us embassy to jerusalem. under kennedy, we went into vietnam.

              WTF none of those have anything to do with democracy. Did you think “democracy” meant “do everything that you personally want”? Do you not get that you are not the only voter? LMFAO.

              that means having a war against democracy.

              How is going into Vietnam a war AGAINST democracy. Vietnam does not have a democracy, although South Vietnam had a democracy in 1975. And South Korea has a democracy today, because of the Korean War.

              • Victoria Antoinette
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                none of those have anything to do with democracy

                they were all antidemocratic. none of them supported justice. the North Vietnamese wanted communism. denying that using the war machine is antidemocratic.

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                  they were all antidemocratic. none of them supported justice.

                  Dude you are using “antidemocratic” to mean “anything I do not like” instead of “not what the voters wanted”. It’s kind of rude to pretend that you are the only voter who matters.

                  . the North Vietnamese wanted communism

                  How would you know? There was no election. That is like claiming the Italians wanted Fascism. And the reason for the war was to defend that other country of South Vietnam which definitely did not want communism.

                  • Victoria Antoinette
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                    Dude you are using “antidemocratic” to mean

                    something the majority did not choose.

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                    the supposed reason for the war was the gulf of tonkin, and the real motivation was dominoe theory. don’t lie.

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      Riiiight. Everything that you don’t like is “fascist” and the bOtH siDeS rhetoric is OLD.