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Chomsky: the hypocrite
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The same thing that happens to most threads here eventually. CFC OT Entropy = gay marriages, Bibles, and sometimes Zimmerman.
Crezth
i knew you were a real man of the left
If only we had mods to enforce thread content.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Some of the best discussion we get on CFC comes from off-topic tangents. The light-touch approach does allow topics to succumb to the sort of entropy that Peter mentions, but it also allows some really interesting, organic lines of conversation to develop, and I'll readily take the former if it's the condition of the latter.
The difference, in my experience, is simply that when you're going down a productive side-road, you're not consciously aware of the tangential nature of the discussion, but when a thread slide into gay Zimmeran aborting Ron Paul's guns in Israel, you tend to realise and groan inwardly. And it's not that the latter is more common- I'd say it's much less so- only that it's more familiar.
Crezth
i knew you were a real man of the left
My point stands. I'd be all to pleased to see the usual suspects for thread derailment... Dealt with.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Typical engineer. 
That would not be in the spirit of Tavern moderation, though. That's more Chamber rules. I agree it can be frustrating, as a previously interesting discussion goes down the intertubes, but it works the other way as well - fruitful tangential discussions can be better than their root at times.
Pretty bold talk for someone who has yet to have a post in line with the topic in this thread.
Borachio
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Crezth
i knew you were a real man of the left
Don't blame me, blame the CFCsociety that raised me to post out of topic.
hobbsyoyo
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I'm not doing your remembering for you. All you've done here is confirmed the notion that you do indeed just ignore what you can't refute or don't want to acknowledge.
Where's Kryiaialkios when you need a Zimmerman gif?
Farm Boy
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Hey, it's been months. Sorry we don't agree on everything. You are a great poster, and we do agree on a bunch of stuff, but the fact that I am not Hobbs' clone #1 doesn't mean I don't read what you say. Can you still send me polar bears every now and then? They've found where I keep the schnapps and they're starting to be decent company. They certainly keep the cats busy.
My local radio station is airing an interview with Chomsky today. The show page is here:
http://www.wnyc.org/story/hour-noam-chomsky/
It's a full hour, and he really fleshes out some of his political views. He also has a new book out on the history of western terrorism.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/hour-noam-chomsky/
It's a full hour, and he really fleshes out some of his political views. He also has a new book out on the history of western terrorism.
useless
Social Justice Rogue
23 days isn't really a necro. If it was a couple of months...
isn't this technically bumping, not necroing? Perhaps you kids are Interneting "necro" in a slang manner I don't understand?
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