Fidonet POLITICS Echo Policies
Updated 4 February 2023

Moderator: John Tuttle (1:2320/195)

POLITICS is for the discussion and debate of topical political discussions, primarily involving an American point of view. It is also unfortunately a place where misinformation runs rampant, so take anything read here as the rantings of partisans and not as facts. The following policies are in
place to keep the peace in here as best as possible. Your participating in this echo implies implicit agreement to abiding by these policies.

# REAL NAMES are required to be used in this echo.
# No swearing, and NO discussion of illegal topics.
# You can discuss religion in here but no proselytizing.
# NO personal attacks against one's person or their family.
# There is no such thing as "free speech" in this echo. There are other
political, "free speech" echos on Fidonet.
# All messages, and shared news articles, must be in ENGLISH.

Thank you for your participation in POLITICS!

-- John Tuttle
POLITICS Moderator
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Fidonet POLITICS Echo Policies
Updated 4 February 2023

Moderator: John Tuttle (1:2320/195)

POLITICS is for the discussion and debate of topical political discussions, primarily involving an American point of view. It is also unfortunately a place where misinformation runs rampant, so take anything read here as the rantings of partisans and not as facts. The following policies are in
place to keep the peace in here as best as possible. Your participating in this echo implies implicit agreement to abiding by these policies.

# REAL NAMES are required to be used in this echo.
# No swearing, and NO discussion of illegal topics.
# You can discuss religion in here but no proselytizing.
# NO personal attacks against one's person or their family.
# There is no such thing as "free speech" in this echo. There are other
political, "free speech" echos on Fidonet.
# All messages, and shared news articles, must be in ENGLISH.

Thank you for your participation in POLITICS!

-- John Tuttle
POLITICS Moderator



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John Tuttle -> All skrev 2024-03-01 11:25:

POLITICS is for the discussion and debate of topical political discussions,
primarily involving an American point of view.

Holy Smoke! So this is where the degrading of this echo comes from?

Whoever (as if I did not know) made this decision? This Tuttle proxy, that never posts anything at all? Or is it a remnant from the decade old zone war?

The sooner we get rid of this, the sooner we can clean up this echo, and get rid of all the uneducated, brainwashed elements, that are now making the S/N ratio unbearable.

Many thanks to the handful of writers, that are now making actually readable contributions. You probably know who you are -- Kudos!

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Conning people is easy. You just need to overcome their intelligence. But convincing people they've been conned is much harder. You need to overcome their pride.
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POLITICS is for the discussion and debate of topical political discussions,
primarily involving an American point of view.

Holy Smoke! So this is where the degrading of this echo comes from?

I wasn't offended by it at all! lol

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POLITICS is for the discussion and debate of topical political discussions,
primarily involving an American point of view.

Holy Smoke! So this is where the degrading of this echo comes from?

I wasn't offended by it at all! lol

I put that there when I took over from Sean a while back. I put it there because people like Bjorn, Al, etc., only like to complain about the US and what we are up to but, when asked about politics in their own countries don't ever seem to want to talk about it.

On the rare instances that they do want to talk about their own countries, they only seemed to want to do so when it makes them look superior to everyone else.

That, and the fact that the echo originates in Z1 from a US node, caused "American point of view" to be inserted in the description. If they want to start a World Politics echo, they are more than welcome to. If they want to "unzip their lips" and start talking here about politics in their own area of the world -- the good and bad and not just the candy-coated bits -- that would be nice, too, but I would not expect that to happen very far beyond whatever little discussion this post might trigger.

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Hello Bj”rn,

POLITICS is for the discussion and debate of topical political
discussions, primarily involving an American point of view.

Holy Smoke! So this is where the degrading of this echo comes from?

From the john.

Whoever (as if I did not know) made this decision?

He did say "primarily involving an American point of view" -
- which can only be expressed while sitting on the john.

This Tuttle proxy, that never posts anything at all?

Participants own the echo. Even if the post(s) are nonsense.

Or is it a remnant from the decade old zone war?

Once upon a time a remnant shut themselves off from the world,
but returned when they found no intelligent life outside.

The sooner we get rid of this, the sooner we can clean up this echo, and get
rid of all the uneducated, brainwashed elements, that are now
making the S/N ratio unbearable.

What is there to clean up? Oops. Forget I said that. Not all
participants have graduated to using bidets.

Many thanks to the handful of writers, that are now making actually readable
contributions. You probably know who you are -- Kudos!

Ready ... Aim ... Fire

Never miss when using a bidet ...

Do not even need a concealed permit ...

For Life,
Lee

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Fox News Slogan - Rich people paying rich people
to tell middle class people to blame poor people.

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