About those peaceful antifa protests...

[frunk]

OTOH quite a few people on the left have complained about the right leaning tendencies of Languish and subsequently quit.  Tuna, Sask, BuddhaRhubarb come to mind (although Sask does make appearances now and then).

I think the lean of the board hasn't changed significantly, it's just shed some of the extreme and the views of the remaining members have changed over time.

[Valmy]

I thought Norgy did so to. But I could be wrong.

[11B4V]

OTOH quite a few people on the left have complained about the right leaning tendencies of Languish and subsequently quit.  Tuna, Sask, BuddhaRhubarb come to mind (although Sask does make appearances now and then).

I think the lean of the board hasn't changed significantly, it's just shed some of the extreme and the views of the remaining members have changed over time.

This I can't agree with. Languish has always been left. If this site is thought of as right leaning, it's like comparing the Euro right to the U.S. right.

[Valmy]

OTOH quite a few people on the left have complained about the right leaning tendencies of Languish and subsequently quit.  Tuna, Sask, BuddhaRhubarb come to mind (although Sask does make appearances now and then).

I think the lean of the board hasn't changed significantly, it's just shed some of the extreme and the views of the remaining members have changed over time.

This I can't agree with. Languish has always been left. If this site is thought of as right leaning, it's like comparing the Euro right to the U.S. right.

Oh everything is too right wing for somebody.

[frunk]

This I can't agree with. Languish has always been left. If this site is thought of as right leaning, it's like comparing the Euro right to the U.S. right.

I didn't say whether Languish was to the right or to the left, just that there are people who quit because they felt it was too far to the right.

[Eddie Teach]

Going by US elections, we had a pretty even split between Bush and Kerry, 2/3 majorities for Obama and near unanimity for Clinton.

[DGuller]

Languish has been center-right for most of its existence.  Let's not forget that this forum started as a refuge for pro-war Americans that felt alienated from Paradox OT forum.  We just haven't descended into fascism when the right wing did, which is why it appears that we have taken a left turn.

[Valmy]

Going by US elections, we had a pretty even split between Bush and Kerry, 2/3 majorities for Obama and near unanimity for Clinton.

Well I cannot challenge you on that since the evidence from the 2004 and 2008 elections has been destroyed forever.

I think we were mostly unanimous against Trump, with a few notable exceptions, but not necessarily for Clinton.

[Valmy]

Languish has been center-right for most of its existence.  Let's not forget that this forum started as a refuge for pro-war Americans that felt alienated from Paradox OT forum.  We just haven't descended into fascism when the right wing did, which is why it appears that we have taken a left turn.

At least the sanctions were ended. Think of all the children we saved.

[Razgovory]

Languish has been center-right for most of its existence.  Let's not forget that this forum started as a refuge for pro-war Americans that felt alienated from Paradox OT forum.  We just haven't descended into fascism when the right wing did, which is why it appears that we have taken a left turn.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.  This was Iraq-war central.  I think the failure of war and the Bush administration took the sails out of lot of the right wingers.  I do remember being lectured several times how Fascism is a left-wing phenomenon.  How quaint that seems in the age of the Alt-Right.

[derspiess]

Trevor Noah calling out Antifa

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/09/01/trevor_noah_on_antifa_violence_video.html

[Valmy]

Trevor Noah calling out Antifa

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/09/01/trevor_noah_on_antifa_violence_video.html

Because most left wing people do not like violent extremists. I don't get the smilie.

[The Brain]

Politics is so middle class. I try to avoid getting my hands filthy.

[Josquius]

OTOH quite a few people on the left have complained about the right leaning tendencies of Languish and subsequently quit.  Tuna, Sask, BuddhaRhubarb come to mind (although Sask does make appearances now and then).

I think the lean of the board hasn't changed significantly, it's just shed some of the extreme and the views of the remaining members have changed over time.

This I can't agree with. Languish has always been left. If this site is thought of as right leaning, it's like comparing the Euro right to the U.S. right.

...huh?
Languish is very right leaning. The very core of this place is people who left paradox as it was too left wing.
Most people here are fairly moderate conservative with a few on the hard right and a handful on the left.

[dps]

OTOH quite a few people on the left have complained about the right leaning tendencies of Languish and subsequently quit.  Tuna, Sask, BuddhaRhubarb come to mind (although Sask does make appearances now and then).

Tuna didn't leave over any left/right type split, though.  He left because people were making fun of people that died in a shipping accident in our typical misanthropic, sarcastic, mean-spirited way.  There wasn't really anything political about it IIRC,