No doubt they clicked on it and probably read your “Advantages” post and got offended at the criticism of their centralized control method of moderation.  Or maybe they have a problem with Jim or Peter, or me or Becky, since we were the only ones who had posted there up to that point. (Texas Tailwheel has made a post since.)

Centralized control in any human endeavor tends to lead to its demise.  That was the fate of the AOPA forum.  Back on the yellow board there was very little moderation of any kind and things got out of hand.  But instead of implementing something like your user controlled moderation they went with centralized.  After the switch to the red board it grew tighter, first confining “spin” type subjects to a subforum, then banning spin type topics altogether, and finally banning all subjects not aviation related.  Now it doesn’t even exist.  It seems PoA is also getting tighter in a somewhat different way. It still has good traffic but is that because it doesn’t have competition?

The same thing is beginning to happen with Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.  Their centralized authoritarian censorship is causing the rise of other platforms and the migration of content to those more free platforms is resulting in the decline of the former ones.

The same applies to economics.  Communism (centralized control of the economy) has failed everywhere it’s been tried.  After mass starvation occurs, you end up allowing some capitalism (putting economic control back in the hands of the people) so you can survive as a country.  But those who love power just can’t quite give it up so they retain cultural control in those countries and living under those regimes is miserable.  That’s the core issue with centralized control of any kind; their proponents like power over others too much.

No control at all (anarchy) doesn’t work for the broad population.  Society needs order.  We saw that with the yellow board, things get too out of control. It works here because this forum is not public and so the group is limited and has settled into a stable dynamic.  But of course any forum not publicly visible will stagnate.  That’s why Jim and Peter created a new publicly visible forum.  Their idea of putting control into the hands of the end user is to empower the individual.  I thought everybody was for that.  Maybe some only give it lip service.

That's part of the scouting experience.  You get to do guy stuff with other guys and learn how to be a Man. Boys act totally different around girls, so this can't happen now.  Plus you just can't do or say the same things. It's a total cluster. Almost everything sucks now be of Leftists and their fucking ideas.

THIS^^^^    Even at age 5, but the age group mentioned in that article was 11 to 17.  YGTBFSM.  Right when guys are most awkward around girls.  No, terrible idea.  They need guy only time to build confidence in their masculinity before putting it all in front of females.

Similarly, girls do the same with their slumber parties and such.  It’s part of growing up.  And a continuing need throughout life, especially for men.  Norah Vincent found that out when she went undercover as a man for 18 months and reported back her findings.  Turns out men are actually nicer and more compassionate to each other in their friendships than women are, and these bonds are vitally important to their well being.

Did you grow up in WV or PA?  Nice story.

Neither.  I grew up in VA, IA and NC.  My mom was from Johnstown and we only visited her family in PA.  When she reached adulthood she told them, “F*** this sh**, I’m outta here!”  (I’m paraphrasing. She never cussed.)  And she moved to Washington DC and got a job with the Feds. 

Later she met my dad who was a university professor and from lines of working professionals and landowning farmers.  Maybe that explains why I so easily see both sides of things.  The working poor, and the educated, privileged middle class.  Don’t so much sympathize with the ruling rich though.

I'm surprised CNN actually acknowledged there was any inflation.

If inflation was 9% last month and 8% this month, the media will report that inflation is “down” and celebrate that as good economic news.

Yeah, that mean person.  The only President in my lifetime that actually DID what he SAID he was going to do.  And it all was good for the country, not just special interests and voting blocks.

It was good for the working class, the very people the Marxists claim to be for but who in fact despise.

Here's the thing:   These Eco Lunatics are a MINORITY, a very small one at that.   Why in the hell are we constantly bowing to and trying to appease a small group of lunatics?

 Same goes with the democrat communist, another small group that demands to be the majority and we all bow and obey their every whim.

 It's time people treat these looney tunes for what they are.

It’s an incorrect extrapolation of the false belief last century that the human population explosion would overrun the planet with trash, pollution, and use up all the fossil fuels.  Now we know that the opposite is happening.  The world’s population is now headed for a collapse.  Even if we do nothing to address trash and pollution, it’s going to be self limiting.  And it is very likely we will never use up all the fossil fuels.  We will go extinct first.

So all this drama over environmentalism is now badly misaligned with reality.  Aging hippies from the 60s are now the leftists in power with an ossified and outdated world view.  You can’t change them, and they’re brainwashing the young into thinking the planet itself is on the precipice of death.  They couldn’t be more wrong. 

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