Gilly wrote:
Happy birthday Guevarista.

Thank you Gilly that means alot to me, I hope you are recuperating well from your operation!
Well my list of immediate candidates for re-education has now gone down to two.
That's one of the worst ideas I've ever seen on, or outside of any forum, ever. I'm assuming it's the product of your having downed a few celebratory drinks.

I'm hoping Oioioi is going to follow through on his brush with Revolutionary Vanguardism and see the potential in this idea, I have been on other forums where this sort of thing was enacted to combat a trolling menace that stalked every innocent poster on the forum, the troll was contained in a dungeon facility where skilled troll hunters and bomb disposal experts worked to rehabilitate and work through the frustration the troll was feeling.
If people's opinions can be altered via normal debate, then that's all well and good. But to stick them in a re-education chamber is a ridiculous notion. Nobody's obliged to share the same views as other people, and variety is the spice of life. If we all constantly agreed on everything, it would be mind-numbingly boring. Plus, if we were all on the same page to start with, with the same opinions and interests, how could we hope to stretch each other's minds to help each other develop?
People seem to come away from the Icke forum completely deprived of critical faculties or coherent points or narratives about every subject they talk about, this indoctrination chamber of the forum would be for when individuals post information hurtful to "the cause" (as yet a vague term we perhaps need to think about?) or posting reactionary nonsensical arguments about Juice and not adhering to the parameters of debate, did you notice how the NAN arre able to never concede a single point on the DIF>?
I spent years with those people, and many far more skilled debaters than I, a few of them resident or past members here, people like snoops who tried all orthodox debate methods could not cease the constant repetition of reactionary nonsense about Jewz being posted, the forum would have benefitted and the individuals and others around them would have benefitted by people developing a framework for working through superstitious or reactionary, bigoted, intellectual laziness resulting in Far Right Wing groups gaining relevance to emerging disenfranchised groups of people.
It would hardly be a warm, welcoming experience logging on here, to be forcibly directed to such a facility.
perhaps less cold than a vote over whether to boot them out altogether?
Which are these 'brightest and most clinical minds' of which you speak - the ones suffering from delusions of grandeur you're proposing to do the
indoctinating re-educating? Apart from yourself, obviously.
My vote is no, and behave yourself!

Only the females really and me and the american guys