Alright well the font is weird in that post too and I previewed it before I added the quote so it's probably not the quote. Pasting the main post from notepad:
Been following this thread for the last day and if you can ignore the one-liner shitposts, there's some excellent points made in here, on both sides™. I'm a conservative, republican, and voted Trump and don't regret it, on a macro level, which means taking into account what I feel affects the most possible people in our country across a wide variety of demographics , our economy and job growth. Nearly every economic indicator is positive and we're well into year two of his presidency; it would be disingenuous to imply this is still all Obama's doing. Of course I'm not supportive of Miller's family separation debacle, it's insane and even if it wasn't Trump's idea he still signed off on it, did he not? The man is far too easily coerced by people he considers loyal to him. Who better to coerce him than politicians and other people working in Washington? That's a huge issue with the administration and why it's so important he surrounds himself with better people.
As far as having a place on this forum, here's a reply I liked:
I mean...the same role as anyone else on this forum as long as they don't violate the TOS?
I don't think this forum should ban or even ostracize Rs (and I don't think it does)...and the history of this forum and the ones it came from suggests that it doesn't. This forum respects cogent arguments that aren't out there to offend or marginalize people, and if you're out here to do that by posting some -ist bullshit, you'll get your card pulled.
Don't be a dick, and be ready to defend your ideally non-anythingist position in a non-disingenuous way. No problems.
Don't be an asshole and don't troll and you'll "survive" because being a Republican and/or a Trump supporter isn't against the TOS from what I gather. Until that changes, just use some common sense when you post. Here's a couple of examples of what I mean by that:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/wh...-supporters-around.58137/page-5#post-10863504
That's my post in the "What would it take to turn Trump supporters around?" thread from a few weeks ago. I took time to write it and articulate my thoughts. Peep the rest of the thread, like page 3 and 4, where there's several posts of just a GIF. If you come into these threads as a Republican and post a shitty one-liner or a gif and then get dogpiled and agitated enough to keep replying and snowballing it out of control into a warning or ban, that's your fault because you didn't use common sense when posting. Of course a no-effort reply that's against the grain is going to aggravate people and if you do that intentionally, you're either 1) trolling... that's the definition of trolling, or if it's unintentional and you go run to another site to complain about the hypocrisy, then you're 2) an idiot that lacks common sense.
Check out Belmonkey's post below mine implying that because of what I said about the economy I must be okay with kids in cages; Webster's exact definition of a false equivalency. That type of low-effort garbage isn't worth a reply, and if you do reply to it and you end up going back and forth, chances are it's going to snowball out of control.
Another example of common sense... I think this is a phenomenal article below, but I wouldn't dare create a whole thread for it, even though it's perfectly suited for one, as I'm not 1) or 2) above.
Take the economy, which is faring better under Mr. Trump by many measures than it has in a generation or longer. Each week throughout this summer has brought almost nothing but economic sunshine. The pace of factory hiring has more than doubled since last year. A July survey from the National Federation of Independent Business notes that optimism among small-business owners, who employ nearly half the nation's private-sector workforce, is at levels not seen since 1983. Wages are also increasing, which was reflected in a Commerce Department report last week that showed retail sales—on groceries, restaurants and clothing—far exceeding economic forecasts and surging at double the rate of inflation.
The best feature of this economic growth is its inclusiveness. The simultaneous gains among various demographic groups is something the country hasn't experienced in a long time, if ever. Older workers, women, minorities, seniors and the less-educated all are faring better in the labor force today than they did under President Obama. The jobless rate for Americans age 16 to 24 hit a 50-year low this summer. In May, the black unemployment rate dipped to 5.9%, the lowest number on record at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. People who had stopped looking for work are sending out resumes. More people are quitting jobs because they are confident that a better one awaits. Employers are increasing perks and benefits in an effort to attract new hires and keep the ones they already have. There were 6.7 million job openings last quarter, a 17-year high.
When the media reports this good news, the stories too often resemble a Democratic National Committee press release. The main objective is to assure you that Mr. Trump's tax cuts and regulatory reform had nothing to do with it, that his predecessor deserves the real credit or that it was all just inevitable. Hogwash.
For all of his faults, the president deserves some praise for the ramped-up economy, just as he'll deserve blame if his counterproductive trade wars reverse these gains over time. Covering the Russia meddling investigation and keeping the White House honest is important, but these things are hardly the sum of Mr. Trump's presidency.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-media-keep-falling-into-the-trump-trap-1534892905
Take a wild guess what would happen if I made that thread or, frankly, anything positive about the current administration? If you know the answer and the consequences, why do it? And then run along to cry about it somewhere else "SEE... I got banned for X while blah blah".
This is a community and every community doesn't adhere by the same rules. If you don't like them or think they're unfair, there's plenty of other communities that could fit you. If your friend's family had a rule to never do (whatever) inside their home, and you broke that rule intentionally, even though it's perfectly fine to do at all your other friends' homes, don't complain about what happens next. Traveling to other countries is a better example of that in terms of adhering to their customs and cultural norms. It's not hard to NOT get banned if you use some common sense when you post and aren't an asshole.
