We have to become what we fear the most to fight to see better days ahead. A pragmatically tough choice. 
My city here has always been very peaceful. Odd for the size that it is, but we have a very diverse population and one of the largest LGBT communities in the united states. That seems to have made it so we’re all just use to everyone being different from ourselves, so we all pretty much have always gotten along.
Ive felt no fear in expressing who I support or who Im against.
Im conservative and actually golf with a guy who is as far left as you can get without being violent.
And thats the point…without being violent.
He and I joke about politics for a four hour golf round even though we’re so polar opposite on many issues. You’d think we’d be swinging golf clubs at each other with what we each believe, lol.
If you cant let someone else have thier own political views…or otherwise…the reason is that deep down inside you question your own and are full of fear that youre wrong.
The reason this guy and I dont argue is Im VERY confident in my views…and he is VERY confident in his. We dont feel threatened by the other over our own lack of conviction of our own beliefs, so we can be very good friends and not have any of the problems the weak minded sort do.
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“If you gaze long enough into a troll thread, the troll thread will gaze back into you.” - Abraham Lincoln
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Yup.
I am a liberal, pro green energy, expansion of medicare type of a person. I believe in defending speech even if I don’t agree with it.
My peers are often called snowflakes because they don’t have the ability to take in different perspectives and lack of empathy to understand that different people are different!
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Yesuna and I disagree on nearly everything. everything. yeah…pretty much everything.
I dont feel like Id put them in the troll category personally.
Have to be very careful to allow the tantrum tossing sort who scream “TROLL” at every disagreement because this forum is clearly moderated by some who allow that tripe.
Ive never seen ‘troll’ abused as badly as it is on this forum…by members AND moderation.
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I just want to point out, based on your post, that you and I have had more than one civil conversation where we have different views and I wish that more of the world could be like that.
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And THAT is the part that makes me laugh these days.
Protection of speech is about protecting the stuff we DONT want to hear.
Theres no need to protect the speech that tickles our ear, lol.
A lot of people have lost the point of the 1st amendment these days and what its there for.
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Yup.
It is a tough choice but one each person must choose as it is their own destiny and must make sense in their own divine universe.
Namaste.
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One of my best friends (best man at my wedding) is as lefty as you can get. Back in the early 00’s he was at basically every anti-war protest you could find… meanwhile I was in the Army.
We can argue politics and shoot the shiz about anything without getting angry. Hell we can even joke about him being Jewish and me being a goyim without getting offended.
The “modern left” seems like something else entirely though. Really feels like extreme negative energy has been building for the last 4-5 years and it’s turned into something nasty as of late.
Doing the work of the divine. 
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The only issues that I have with this approach is:
- It tries to punish those that are not breaking the rules
- It wastes Acti / Blizz’s time having to sift through false flags instead of being able to deal with the actual issues of people breaking the rules.
Going this route does more harm than any good.
cheater peters i report them too… basically botting 
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I will let the professionals decide by letting them investigate! I do not have the tools and I am not privy to such information like Blizz has access with. Better to let Blizz decide!
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The REAL Democrats I know are seriously upset about how the party has been infiltrated by violent sorts and how their leadership is going along with it…many of the higher ups anyway…congressmen, governors, mayors. They’re telling me all the time that this isnt the Democrat party they grew up with.
And I know people, including cousins, uncles, aunts, nephews and neices, neighbors, freinds…who voted for Barrack twice who now are supporting Trump 100%…and the entire reason is because of how the left has been behaving the last few years.
Our system is designed for two or more parties to be arguing policy to keep them all in check. To keep a sane balance.
when the right goes off the rails, the left can force it back in. When the left hits ‘crazy’ the right can do the same.
These more recent events, the violence, the coercion…trying to intimidate over politics…is literally the FBI definition of terrorism.
We should never have allowed it to get this far from EITHER side.
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There is no ‘basically’ botting, lol.
Its either Playerless botting…AI.
Or its a player and its not remotely even close to botting.
Muddying up the water is why one side isnt taken seriously in here…or by blizzard
I have come to this very simple conclusion and it makes me shake my head.
You try and explain to people that there are two types of transmissions and somehow an automatic transmission is the same as a standard transmission just because they are both a transmission.
So my conclusion is: people are weird sometimes in their thought processes.
I broke out the original ‘Heroes’ series from a few years ago. Just finished it last night. Really good writing, acting, etc in that four season show.
There is a scene where Noah Bennett is trying to talk a guy with a gun down in a scene to get him to calm down.
As Bennett is walking up the stairs you hear the shucking sound of a 12 gauge pump shotgun.
A few seconds later you see a young man standing there with a double barrel 12 gauge aimed at Bennett.
uh…a double barrel shotgun doesnt ever make that sound of a pump action being racked, lol
I giggled because I realize at that point that whoever was working on this scene is 100% absolutely clueless about guns and how they operate.
Same problem with most of these anti boxers in here.
They talk…but without the underlying knowledge of how boxing even works, so much of what they say isnt founded in reality or fact, but pure emotionalism.
Mafic is kind of right, but I also agree with what you said. It’s hard to say who is botting and who isn’t. People want botters removed so if the people who are botting legit find out that the Blizzard is not taken actions, we may start to see them more and more and I wouldn’t be surprised that one of the reasons why we see so many of them right now in retail and Classic.
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Heroes was neat before the plot went off the rails.
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I think what bothers me the most with people that don’t like multi-boxing for whatever reason is that it seems there is a hang up on cheating.
When asked about where the cheating is taken place, there isn’t any answer.
It’s one thing to not like something because of a general dislike for it, but to go around calling it something that it’s not. Seems very off putting to me
They usually sit at the same spots for hours in legion and BFA zones. They are utilizing the multi boxing gray areas that Blizz allows so there is not much we can do report illegal activity. Let Blizz decide is my philosophy.
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