4 hours ago, MIke B Bad said:

Oxymoron if ever there was one.

Wrong. Im sorry you have difficulty understanding such a simple concept.

35 minutes ago, blaze master said:

Wrong. Im sorry you have difficulty understanding such a simple concept.

No you're not.

17 hours ago, blaze master said:

As has been posted by people on both sides of the political spectrum. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequences of said speech.

Well, there is also a great deal of hypocrisy involved on both sides. Not so long ago, right wingers were complaining that their speech on campus was being censored due to wokeness. And they had a good point. But they supported the suppression of anti-israeli speech. And not just by administrators of institutes of higher education, but by the government as well. Which is a clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

14 minutes ago, MIke B Bad said:

No you're not.

I really am. I find it so sad that you fail to understand. Heartbreaking even.

Bye.

4 minutes ago, blaze master said:

I really am. I find it so sad that you fail to understand. Heartbreaking even.

Bye.

Such a snowflake.....555

3 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Well, there is also a great deal of hypocrisy involved on both sides. Not so long ago, right wingers were complaining that their speech on campus was being censored due to wokeness. And they had a good point. But they supported the suppression of anti-israeli speech.

Fact check - grossly misleading(as usual)

Shouting "river to the sea" is barely disguised code for wishing genocide on a group of people.

Slightly different from the political censorship alluded to in the OP.

Does Alan feel the need to have conservatives handicapped and censored (up to and including the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES) on a political discussion forum?

10 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Fact check - grossly misleading(as usual)

Shouting "river to the sea" is barely disguised code for wishing genocide on a group of people.

Slightly different from the political censorship alluded to in the OP.

Does Alan feel the need to have conservatives handicapped and censored (up to and including the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES) on a political discussion forum?

I got news for you. Even genocidal speech is protected by the First Amendment. As Charlie Kirk noted, the First Amendment doesn't recognize a category of speech called hate speech.

When Nazis Came to Illinois: The History of the Skokie Case

In 1977, Skokie, Illinois was home to around 40,500 Jews, thousands of whom were Holocaust survivors. Then, the National Socialist Party of America, a group of self-styled Nazis planned a march. In March of that year, the group requested a permit to march through the village, and were sued by Skokie to prevent it. The American Civil Liberties Union decided, controversially, to represent the Nazis on the basis of free speech, and the case eventually went to the United States Supreme Court, who ruled they should be allowed to march due to free speech concerns.

https://mjhnyc.org/events/when-nazis-came-to-illinois-the-history-of-the-skokie-case/

Again, this is a private venue. The mods have every right to censor speech here. I suspect that they don't want this venue to turn into something like X. And given that this is Thailand, not America, the First Amendment isn't applicable here.

I am all for gagging Trump, because every time he opens his fat gob, something else gets scewed up.

On 4/4/2026 at 7:11 AM, SunnyinBangrak said:

Do members find it a sign of a mature political discussion platform, when the sitting US President's own legal words and writings are censored(as an eg. His Bruce Springsteen tweet yesterday) so as not to offend people of the left?

I find this very concerning, and struggle to understand how this can happen in 2026.

Presumably posters of the left applaud censorship of the US President, while simultaneously claiming to be proud of the "free speech" we enjoy - like sir Kier recently lied about?

Your own content falls far short of qualifying as mature political discussion.......it invariably amounts to no more than ill-tempered jibes at the amorphous "left".......ie anyone who isn't MAGA.

Your contribution in this case a classic example.........you really have nothing worthwhile to say and you say that over and over again.

Get up to a basic level of maurity and insight yourself and you may earn the minimum amount of respect required to be taken seriously.

At present you have made of yourself no more than a ludicrous, predictable, low brow "Aunt Sally".

18 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Rosie O'Donnell (who criminal Trump is trying to illegally strip of her U.S. citizenship) coined a great new nickname for it.

www.pressreader.com/usa/clarion-ledger/20250718/281629606301436

If you feel the need to attack Trump, why rely on the words of dishonest blowhard like rosie? It is self defeating. There is a robust library of commentary from erudite people that you can use.

18 hours ago, phetphet said:

"who looks like a dried up prune"

Trump should invite him (Springsteen) to dinner. A prune and an orange together.

Fruit, dried or fresh, almost certainly have not featured on a White House dining table for some considerable time now!

Happy Easter!

7 hours ago, MIke B Bad said:

Oxymoron if ever there was one.

I don't think it is.

For example, if you make public statements that cause embarrassment to your employer you can be terminated.

Freedom of speech guaranteed in the first amendment refers to government restriction on free speech. No guarantee that there will not be consequences.

1 hour ago, Patong2021 said:

If you feel the need to attack Trump, why rely on the words of dishonest blowhard like rosie? It is self defeating. There is a robust library of commentary from erudite people that you can use.

Even dishonest blowhards can come up with a good line once in a while. For example, the current POTUS.

So the premise of all this is if President Trump can use the XYZ term and acronym, why is it deleted when it appears on here.

11 minutes ago, JerryM said:

So the premise of all this is if President Trump can use the XYZ term and acronym, why is it deleted when it appears on here.

Do you think that maybe President Trump is thinking of abandoning Truth Social for as a yet-to-be-named forum located somewhere in SE Asia? And that maybe under the guise of a pseudonym he's already trying to change the rules? That maybe right now in his mind he's glaring at the moderators?

12 minutes ago, JerryM said:

So the premise of all this is if President Trump can use the XYZ term and acronym, why is it deleted when it appears on here.

Because the political side that hurl insulting acronyms like TACO all day long are givers not takers?

Because we are not mature enough to read the Presidents words?

Cant think of any other possibilities. But interesting not a single leftie finds such indefensible censorship inappropriate. Says it all.

Who is censoring the Epstein files?

1 minute ago, cjinchiangrai said:

Who is censoring the Epstein files?

If memory serves your Biden/Garland DOJ released exactly zero files. The Trump/Bondi admin released millions.

Which has exactly zero to do with why the forum left are too immature to cope with the US presidents words and need to be sheltered from them.

11 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Because we are not mature enough to read the Presidents words?

Why read or listen to what you know are going to be a bunch of lies that might just have a grain of truth interspersed among them?

1 hour ago, cdemundo said:

I don't think it is.

For example, if you make public statements that cause embarrassment to your employer you can be terminated.

Freedom of speech guaranteed in the first amendment refers to government restriction on free speech. No guarantee that there will not be consequences.

Did you look up what oxymoron means?

16 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

If memory serves your Biden/Garland DOJ released exactly zero files. The Trump/Bondi admin released millions.

Which has exactly zero to do with why the forum left are too immature to cope with the US presidents words and need to be sheltered from them.

It does not matter what Garland did or didn't do. Trumps DOJ has been conducting a massive coverup for over a year and lying about it the whole time.

52 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Because the political side that hurl insulting acronyms like TACO all day long are givers not takers?

Because we are not mature enough to read the Presidents words?

Cant think of any other possibilities. But interesting not a single leftie finds such indefensible censorship inappropriate. Says it all.

A possibility for the reasoning on here is that 'syndrome' indicates a medical condition.

55 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Because the political side that hurl insulting acronyms like TACO all day long are givers not takers?

Because we are not mature enough to read the Presidents words?

Cant think of any other possibilities. But interesting not a single leftie finds such indefensible censorship inappropriate. Says it all.

You still haven't told us what was censored or where. Some of us don't spend our lives on here reading every single thread. Maybe no "leftie" has commented because they have no idea what you are on about? I certainly have no idea.

10 hours ago, amykat said:

What a compliment!! Maybe Trump’s next job could be working as a clown?🤡

Maybe, he would sure be better than the clowns on late night TV like Colbert and Kimmel

10 hours ago, bunnydrops said:

After how many drinks? At least he has a reason to talk like that.

None of us really drink, just weed and steaks

20 hours ago, MIke B Bad said:

20 hours ago, MIke B Bad said:

Did you look up what oxymoron means?

I know what it means.

You clearly don't.

An oxymoron contains two contradictory terms.

"Freedom of speech" does not.

Examples would be an "educated ignoramus" or a "wise fool".

Freedom of speech is not an oxymoron, as has been observed by others here.

Doubling down when you are wrong is not a sign of strong character,

it is just foolish.

On 4/4/2026 at 1:11 PM, SunnyinBangrak said:

Do members find it a sign of a mature political discussion platform, when the sitting US President's own legal words and writings are censored(as an eg. His Bruce Springsteen tweet yesterday) so as not to offend people of the left?

I find this very concerning, and struggle to understand how this can happen in 2026.

Presumably posters of the left applaud censorship of the US President, while simultaneously claiming to be proud of the "free speech" we enjoy - like sir Kier recently lied about?

Sunny, Sunny !!! are you still concerned with the censorship about Trump, it's amazing what 24 Hours can do, read your post below

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Not cool. Certainly not appropriate for a President. These outbursts are totally crazy, he needs to get a grip, and fast.

20 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Because the political side that hurl insulting acronyms like TACO all day long are givers not takers?

Because we are not mature enough to read the Presidents words?

Cant think of any other possibilities. But interesting not a single leftie finds such indefensible censorship inappropriate. Says it all.

are you mature enough Sunny, to understand your leader words

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Not cool. Certainly not appropriate for a President. These outbursts are totally crazy, he needs to get a grip, and fast.

Far more entertaining to watch Trump then the clowns before him like Obohama or Biden and their cronies. But it's not about Trump or not. It's just how America (or the UK sometimes) have always been. It's just the way of saying it, that is more entertaining with Trump.