Sorry if this is hit and run, but I really want to be heard here. Markos, I read your edict, and if you would agree that you had thrown down the gauntlet and issued an edict to the members of your forum, then edict it shall be. I’m never gonna hear “Oh, no, that was just a suggestion.” from you. That was no suggestion.
If you agree that it was an edict, then, you are asserting unilateral privileges that accord from your position as Creator. I winced at the guy who referred to you as “boss”, because I didn’t think that was your preference. But now I see you betraying your own past, your book, which convinced me of the direction I was to take. Bernie Sanders embodies that Spirit like no other. He knows that a win for Bernie Sanders is only half the battle, we must awaken to our spirit to keep alive the flame of the blessings of liberty.
Here’s what I’m saying: let’s pretend the owner of this site sided with the members. Wow, the Love, huh? It would be amazing. Like if some other owner, not you, were all “Wow, so you guys want Bernie huh? And 2/3s of us are like “Hell, yeah!” and you’re all like “OK, let’s check that shit out brah!” and we’re like “faaa..” and different things happened…
Healthcare was provided through the government in the European model, or Medicare for All.
College is free for our children, based on merit, academic merit. It’s like soccer or a soapbox derby except that it involves STEM and our competitiveness in the technological world.
Jobs return to America and young men have an alternative to joining the army.
The Army doesn’t need people because we have less war every day.
You choose this, or you choose the opposite. For all of us. Your condescending tone was not lost on me, nor was your exasperation at having to house a lunatic asylum at times. Mostly, in a Democracy, you have to allow the cacophony of voices to arrive at the truth. Like the time that the trusty FishOutof Water debunked that scary “earthquakes are coming because Los Angeles is polluted”.
I would advise you, my friend, to stop with the edicts, and get on board with your own website.
I’m your friend, are you mine? Listen to me then.