Socialism is the answer

[Franklin Johnson]

Is it best to report such an email to the moderator then? Would that be the right thing to do?

What if the moderator does nothing about it? Answer me that.

In any case, I still have strong reservations when there are exceptional cases like this one, or perhaps something even worse.

Franklin

Franklin
Publishing private emails is considered trolling.

[toddwquigley]

God Franklin, you are obsessed. I posted the original letter I sent you along with a few more paragraphs, and you must be illiterate, because everything I sent you was there. If you are wondering why I first responded to you directly, it's because of your snide remark about me being afraid to respond came directly to my email address, and I simply can't be bothered to go back to the thread every time I want to respond.

I guess you don't have anything better to do than stand out in front of the Post Office and bother people with your pathetic Communist tracts. You are simply a deluded old man that STILL hasn't talked about the subject after a half a dozen posts. I must therefore assume it's because you don't have anything intelligent to say.

Unlike you, I have to work 12 hours a day so that my tax dollars can support your sorry hide, which means I don't have the time, nor inclination to immediately respond to some body's comment on my 13 day old post. You seemed to take the fact that I have other things to do as a sign of weakness, and now you have found me be the opposite, so when confronted with facts and logic you complain about posting protocol, and go running to the moderator. What a sorry person you are, a typical whining Marxist.

As for your beloved communism, why don't you go live in a communist country like I have. I suggest you go join your messiah Castro in Cuba, better yet, go spend a couple of years living in Northern Russia as I have and then I might take you more seriously.

It's all to easy to safely stand on American soil and complain about American Democracy, when it is American Democracy that lets people like you exist.

In Russia, you would not have time to stand in front of the Post Office and spout your subversive rhetoric, because you would be too busy trying to find something to eat, and a little coal to keep you warm in the glorious worker's paradise. Not only that, they would have hauled you off to the Gulags (which are still full of dissidents) the second you voiced political views against the State.

You are really a piece of work to call me a liar and dishonest simply because you couldn't take the time to completely read what I had posted.

You are part of the problem, not the cure

[MsTerry]

Is it best to report such an email to the moderator then? Would that be the right thing to do?
Franklin

If it is harassing or offensive, yes it would be the right thing to do. When you signed up for Wacco, did you read what it said when you agreed to follow the rules?

What if the moderator does nothing about it? Answer me that.

Why do you need an answer to something that hasn't happened? Are you that despondent?

In any case, I still have strong reservations when there are exceptional cases like this one, or perhaps something even worse

I have no idea what this statement means.

I love it when people don't have the 'cojones' to say things publicly. They prefer to insult others in private

I've found nothing in that private email that can be construed as an insult (or attack) to you personally. Todd is expressing his beliefs that we are screwed no matter who is in the White House.Others have expressed that same sentiment here.

[Franklin Johnson]

For starters, this has evolved into a different thread so this is the last post I'm going to make regarding this issue.

Fine. In the future, I will send a copy of insulting private emails to the moderator in the hopes that she or he will address the matter. My only concern is that this may not always happen. In which case, I will opt to 'out' the rude person.

All interpretations of the email aside, this is a pervasive problem with email lists/debate forums in general. Hostile subscribers who are angry or hateful with another poster will often take the liberty to offend them privately so that it is not seen by the community. They know the community won't allow for this or they are too embarrassed to show their real colors by insulting another person publicly. That's why it's a cowardly act. People like Todd are cowards, rude ones at that.

The only 'solution' I have seen (and it's a timid one indeed) is to complain to the moderator(s) of the list, but this many times does not work for various reasons.

Franklin

If it is harassing or offensive, yes it would be the right thing to do. When you signed up for Wacco, did you read what it said when you agreed to follow the rules?

Why do you need an answer to something that hasn't happened? Are you that despondent?


I have no idea what this statement means.

I've found nothing in that private email that can be construed as an insult (or attack) to you personally. Todd is expressing his beliefs that we are screwed no matter who is in the White House.Others have expressed that same sentiment here.

[Barry]

I will be happy to step in if I am notified of a problem. I am not online 24/7, however, but sometimes I come close!

You can send me a note to [email protected] or click the Report Post icon () above each post on the website.

It seems you guys handled it, but it is gross violation of online etiquette to post a private reply in public. Please do not do so again.

,
Barry

[toddwquigley]

Franklin, I have posted everything that I ever sent you, so stop calling me cowardly and dishonest, if anything YOUR actions are those of a coward, as when I confront your emotional fantasy World you go running to the moderator, because you don't have anything intelligent to say.

As far as rudeness goes, you started the whole thing by implying that I was afraid to reply to Ms. Terry's comment, because I didn't immediately post a response. Sorry, but I have to W O R K so that I can support liberals and communists, which means I don't sit around waiting for somebody to post a comment on something I wrote 13 days ago.

You have since then said that I am dishonest and a liar, although my very actions of posting my note to you dissprove what you say, therefore making you dishonest by calling me dishonest. Why you can get this through your head is beyond me.

Still you have not said one single thing to repudiate what I have posted except to yet again, whine about posting protocol, and you are wrong at that also as witnessed by both Barry and Ms. Terry.

You are a troll of the first degree, and in fact you have been told so by other people.

Let's get back to the issue which is: Socialism is for losers, and every country that has tried it is proof of that. Castro is one of the most evil despots in modern history, right up there with Stalin, Mao and Hitler, and what he did to Cuba is a tradegy of the first degree. If the people are so happy, why do so many of them die trying to raft to America to get away from their shattered country? Castro and Guevara killed 20 times as many as Batista ever did. Cuba is a Communist DICTATORSHIP, which means the people have no say in their government.

When you are ready to debate your precious Communism and can bring some intelligent factual logic to the table to support your hypothesis, bring it on.

Instead all you do is whine, make incorrect assumptions, and in the face of evidence to the opposite, call me dishonest.

By your actions you have proved yourself to be nothing but a hypocritical and whining TROLL.

[Barry]

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By your actions you have proved yourself to be nothing but a hypocritical and whining TROLL.

Again, please stop attacking each other. You are welcome to continue the "discussion" of various political/economic systems/realities if you can do so in a thoughtful and respectful manner, but refrain from personal attacks.