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User Jonimus has been given a timeout for actual bad faith posting - Taking a contentious position, then when called on it, instead declaring that you donât actually hold that position, and taking a different one instead.
If you are going to stake out a position on a topic, responding with âI didnât really intend to argue this positionâ when challenged is basically admitting to trolling (or at the very least, admitting to derailing via hyperbole).
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User wsraqoo has been removed after pushing multiple âboth-sides-esqueâ strawmen in topics surrounding the insurrection at the Capitol.
Iâll make this plain: After all of the information that has been released about how bad the Capital building riot was, how bad it could have been, and how coordinated it was has been exposed over the pst few days, anyone who wants to try to use the BBS to push the narrative that there is somehow a parallel to protests or violence from BLM protests or other incidents in 2020 can find another forum to do so.
There are important discussions to be had around radicalization, unequal treatment and response, and whatnot, but that is where the similarities end, and trying to use the former protests and violence to âjustifyâ the Jan 6th events or temper the response to them is equivalent to someone advocating for the actions taken. No way in hell that is going to fly on this forum.
Any version of that bullshit is a variant of either âThe other side made this inevitable so they are not responsibleâ or âwe should avoid angering them furtherâ nonsense. Go elsewhere if you really believe that crap.
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Those are all variations of victim blaming. Straight out of the abuserâs handbook. âJust look at what you made me do! Donât make me angry or Iâll do more of it.â 
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Fun fact:
BLM protests and any resulting unrest thereafter hasât killed any LEOs.
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But they hurt their fe-fes! /s
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The truth tends to hurt.
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Yep. But not nearly as bad as getting beaten to death with a fire extinguisher, though, Iâm sure.
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Call me cold-blooded; Iâm just glad it wasnât innocent BIPOC people who were the victims of prolific mob violence this time.
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I agree. Youâre not.
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User JeanBaptiste has been banned. This user had been quietly leaving bigoted, hateful remarks on the BBS even before I was a moderator here, but some of our awesome Leaders noted their past pattern of behaviour in an recent flagged post and bright them to my attention.
Quiet bigotry is still bigotry, and this user is no longer welcome here, and I have retroactively removed their most egregious comments from the forum.
Thank you, Leaders!
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User dontpanicbobby who was recently given a timeout for making light of the pandemic has upgraded themselves to a full ban for turning around an instead, making fun of suicide.
Snark is one thing. This is not that.
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user tsath has been given a brief timeout for going off on a contributing author for something that wasnât even present in an article, and reposting it in a slightly less derogatory way once they were moderated.
This is forum, people disagree. Moreover, if you want to disagree with the take of an article, fine - but be respectful and follow our guidelines, and in this case, RTFA first and try to argue the points being made in it, not invent your own.
Thanks.
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User pipecock has been summarily ejected from the BBS for going into full-on attack-the-community-troll-mode after complaining that music isnât like it used to be, movies arenât like they used to be, and generally trying to convince the community that mutants shouldnât be happy (or permitted) to deviate. Twenty flagged posts later, itâs clear the trajectory this user was on.
I wish them well in their quest to recreate their rose-coloured world that likely never existed in the first place.
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More like a drab grey, and not even very many shades.
Oddly SFW
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