Before 2017 this forum would have 10 new threads a week on how awesome Norway was & many other legitimate maritime threads were derailed to the same topic. Then someone wisely made the “Norway Is Really Awesome” thread that later was changed to the “Greetings From Norway” thread. I enjoyed both threads btw. Since it’s obvious a half dozen commenters with Trump Derangement Syndrome will visit the forum everyday for the next 4 years to say how great Democrats & liberals are and how bad Trump sucks I made this thread for them. Instead of spamming up the space with Trump talk & keeping the moderators on their toes with 20 new anti-Trump threads a week why not file all the TDS grievances here and make the forum a more pleasant place? Probably better for people new to gCaptain so they know it’s only a half dozen folks on 1 thread & not a half daozen guys on 50 threads. I’ll be tuning out if gCaptain goes back to the Maritime Trash Trump Destination again.
Wow. Anybody else see the two glaring problems that would render this idea virtually impossible? Sorry. THREE glaring problems.
Just give it a shot. The next time the algo’s pings your phone with a crazy ass Trump story, post the link here & let 'er rip. It’s good for a person’s mental health to vent but you’re not turning a professional mariners forum in an anti-Trump political bitch site in the process. A win-win for everyone. If the pro-Trumpers start flooding the site with pro-Trump propaganda threads I’ll put on some gloves, a white tyvac suit, make a “Trump Is Really Awesome” thread then go take a shower with bleach.
I’ll pass. Homey don’t play futile. I would point out, however, that this is the “Scuttlebutt” category, and my $0.02 worth of input is that there should be more leeway here. If you don’t like it don’t look at it. We’re already leading the league in closed threads (reason #1 BTW). I’ve never quite understood the philosophy behind closing threads.
I don’t blame the moderators for closing threads when things are getting heated. I do agree that there should be more leeway in the scuttlebutt area, however some can play nice, some can’t.
Most of these ‘polarized’ political discussions here wouldn’t happen on board and for good reason.
They wouldn’t be as heated, that’s for sure. A lot of keyboard warriors who shriek at real confrontations.
Ohhh thx weird Bro. Dems are really AWSOME !!!
Even folks down under know it.
There is more fm Sky News on the „….loosing it series „. . Just watch the channel.
Too bad you don’t want to give streamlining your guys TDS a try. About not understanding the closing thread philosophy. I kind of get it like ctony said. But what I don’t get is how a moderator can close down a thread like the “How About A Fox News Presenter For Denfece Secretary” & a forum participate opening another thread 5 minutes later with the 1st comment starting off with, “Continuing the discussion from the How About A Fox News Presenter For Denfece Secretary” without getting suspended or shut down? Very disrespectful & unproductive on the part of the TDS sufferers imo. You guys are lucky the mods share many of your guys political opinions because if they didn’t you guys would be setting on the timeout bench Heiwa & Jughead are often sent to.
“Very disrespectful and unproductive” says man who can’t stand seeing a discussion without feeling the need to bash the “libtards”. How about we make a thread where you, Heiwa, and Jughead can shout out in your own echo chamber how the world is going to drown in liberal tears?
This thread is you claiming to take the high road when in reality, its just another lame attempt of yours to say how superior you are for political views. Go join Johnny Drillship on Xitter if that’s what you want to do.
Where in the heck did you get that derogatory term you placed in parenthesis & why are you using it while replying to me? And PLEASE keep it up, the running of threads off the rails to insult the ceo of this outfit who used his own personal money to start this platform so you can come on here & shit talk him. The other day when davidMT went too far & claimed JK cares more about far right politics than advancing Merchant Mariner matters was too much for me & got my comment blocked. I’m not falling for it this time so insult JK as much as you want. He seems like a nice guy to me but eventually you’ll push him too far I guess. If you TDS guys detest him so much you should stop sucking off his teet & find another platform to bash him on. Speaks bad of your character to benefit from the service he gives away for free just to bash him on it.
No fair. That was tourism. I seen it TV
How about we all accept that a majority of Americans voted for Trump knowing full well what they voted for and expecting to be give what they voted for good and hard?
That’s funny. I thought I was on my own here. The only Trump supporter, climate change denier, anti-wokester, anti-vaxer, (fill in the blank) in the whole village. Now I have friends I’m so happy.
Just don’t ask to borrow my truck, want me to lend money & I don’t co-sign for anyone ever. Also, I’m a Libertarian, not republican, voted for Nicky Haley in our open primary & would have probably voted for Chase Oliver if my county didn’t make it so hard to vote absentee.
And we were getting along so well!
Ya’ll too mad. What matters is we’re American. The bad asses of the bad, as Trump says " we’re the best, as Biden said “we own the finish line.” We already did this trump won now lets all cry, 8 years ago. Pull off the band aid and get to work. Work harder, no one cares. Im over it all around, I got shit to do, and you should too.