From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 2/6/26 11:51, William Hyde wrote:   
   > Chris Buckley wrote:   
   >   
   >> If the sentiment of the group is that only liberals are allowed to post   
   >> freely about politics, all others must be discouraged, then I will   
   >> obey the   
   >> sentiment of the group. But I don't believe that is the case.  Is it?   
   >   
   > Back when we had three hundred posts a day, political discussions were   
   > something of a problem (at least the ones to which I did not contribute   
   > my infinite wisdom).  Why, sometimes my right index finger got sore from   
   > clicking  through them!   But now that we have about twenty posts a day,   
   > a political discussion involving a further twenty posts would not be a   
   > hardship.   
   >   
   > Besides, now I have a killfile.   
   >   
   > (On a similar topic, the splitting of the sf groups made sense in the   
   > 1990s, now it makes no sense at all.  If all sf posts were made to only   
   > one group we would be better off.)   
   >   
   >   
   > Things change without rhyme or reason.  There was a time, a long time,   
   > when the top three posters, by a wide margin, were conservatives (not   
   > that I can assert that all would be maga nowadays).   
   >   
   > In those days Terry was quite a bit more liberal, as fit his contrarian   
   > inclinations.  Not actually liberal, but not the voice he has been since   
   > late in the last decade.  He occasionally wanted to be worth talking to.   
   >   And was.   
   >   
   > I had good discussions with one of the three, and some with another, who   
   > was a bit insane but not politically so.  I regret the departure of two   
   > of the three.   
   >   
   > But nobody drove them out.   
   >   
   >   
   > William Hyde   
   >   
      
   	Snowflakes melt away.   
   	   
   	bliss - who would not be  on Usenet if she could not deal with   
   misogyny, etc.   
   		Things  were worse when I was young in the 1940s-1960s in real life.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)