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CTyankee

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8. I just started with Ignore. The poster I am ignoring was so clearly warped that I
Tue Jul 14, 2015, 04:03 PM
Jul 2015

asked myself if I knew him/her in real life would I tolerate having him in my life any more? The answer was no, of course not!

same with jury blacklist. Frankly, with the alert thing going all the time I felt my strong opinions on gun safety measures would get both that poster and others of like cause to go after me. And I put those "usual suspects" on the blacklist. I am probably on one or two of theirs but I am called for jury duty all the time and I don't worry about that.

I do not consider myself an authoritarian. I'd just had enough bullshit. Frankly, I am too old to get myself willingly trashed online. I don't come here for that. If someone has a differing view, fine and we'll have a debate. If they can't keep it civil well, I have a remedy for that too...

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