"Wolfgang" wrote...
"Tim J." wrote...
"Greg Pavlov" wrote...
Frank Church wrote:

I just counted 86 alt.politics on my newsserver..

Gee, Frank, I just counted about 400 comp. groups
on *my* server, and these aren't even alt groups, but
that doesn't stop you from posting "geek" messages
here, does it ? And there have to be hundreds of
lonely hearts groups out in usenet land, but you're
still using this forum for your divorce stories, aren't
you ?

Sorry to step on any toes here, but I see the discussion of personal
matters
involving the roffian family (as dysfunctional as it is) to be a
very different
than a political post. YMMV.

Perhaps, but as you note, opinions do vary. Meanwhile, ANY
contribution to a political thread can be seen as a political
statement in its own right.....even one decrying political statements.
Moreover, "...this small vocal core of angry lefties" can hardly be
viewed as apolitical by any reasonable standard.

Agreed. I don't see political posts as wrong, but just in a different category
from posts about personal matters. I decided quite some time ago that making my
political views known here serves no purpose other than to aggravate ME, so I've
curbed the impulse.

It can hardly escape the notice of any careful reader that diatribes
against the presence of politics in this forum are almost always
prompted not by the inclusion of politics per se, but rather by the
exposition of the WRONG politics.

Boy, ain't it the truth! (Read: "Many would agree.")

It is also worth noting that the
vast majority of objections to politics in ROFF come from individuals
whose own participation clearly marks them as what are generally (and
for reasons that are patently ludicrous) known as "conservatives", and
that these objections typically surface when their authors have their
backs to the dialectical wall.

I've noticed the wall-stance fairly equally in terms of lefties/righties.

Oh, and this exposition will doubtless sorely tempt a few to label ITS
author as a "liberal". Those individuals should, of course, not be
included in anyone's list of careful readers.

Wolfgang
whose political philosophy has been clearly and unequivocally stated
on a number of occasions.

Honestly, I (who is not assuming to place himself on the "list of careful
readers") haven't figured out much about your political bent at all. I've come
to the conclusion that there's left, right, and Wolfgang. Good job! I admire the
political enigma.
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TL,
Tim
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