You want to give up right after you started? Who's going to follow it there's no leader?
You need to advertise. Put up signs go to the different forums and make friends.
You can loosen up, Take it from me, I ran my forum for 3 years and never once banned anybody and the only time I moved to post was by your request. I've never deleted a post either.
I know you made a lot of categories and a lot of posts but you have to allow them to take on a life of their own. People have different opinions and not everybody is of the same education and intelligence level. What you need to do is softly show them where you think they are wrong. Don't make it so people are scared to post on any thread that you start.
Let me give you an example. You want to talk about how to avoid mass shootings and in your opinion it is about the drugging of juveniles. Well there are other people out there that feel that there is more than just that, that there is a deeper core issue and you have to let them voice their opinion. How do you know that there isn't some truth to it. As for how threads seem to meander, what if somebody asked the question how did that little Mexican kid get the thousands of dollars to buy the weapons and ammunition and how did he learn how to shoot like an ace? You might not find that relevant but others want to know why. What is the reason? Is there a conspiracy? Which person or group gave that little Mexican kid the know-how? Do you not think that is something core to finding out why all these mass shootings are happening at such coincidental times? You have to let people voice their opinion and question the questions.
I put a lot of work into making this forum top class now if you want to take some type of sabbatical or whatever, I will support you just I gave my promise to help you create your podcast.
Please take what I say as a friendly suggestion. Right now what needs to be done is advertisement and I can only do so much as I'm starting another business coming soon and will be very hand tied.
I don't need any time off. I would like to see other people post relevant posts in each category. Ask questions. Agree. Disagree. Three sentences and I'm satisfied that somebody is actually taking the time to read a whole post, if not some of the thread.
I think you should read the rules of the board so you understand what we are trying to accomplish. How someone gets guns becomes a
political issue, not one of
strategy. I know you had a problem with the strategy forum. I'm not trying to tell people what they can and cannot post. Strategy is strategy. The proper forum for asking where did the Uvalde shooter get his guns is in the political forum
UNLESS someone has a strategic thread regarding how people are getting five thousand dollars worth of guns and gear on a minimum wage job while living with their grandparents.
It has become glaringly obvious that you don't see the value in
SOME conversations not meandering and being hijacked within a dozen posts. When we get some people posting, I want to be able to ask local political and religious leaders to rely on parts of the board for their talking points. If we're offering a solution to a problem, you can bet the family farm, they don't want to go very far off the reservation. Where do these kids get guns? That's easy. But, if my proposal to identify and HELP people
before they buy guns were being relied on for some politician's talking points, he or she won't have time to fret over off topic matters. If that plan were put into place, where the Uvalde shooter gets his firearms is irrelevant. Let me explain this from my perspective:
The controlled news and entertainment media
will ask the same question as you. These people are getting their weapons from unknown sources that are brainwashing and radicalizing people. The mainstream will
NEVER admit that. The controlled news and entertainment media are protecting those people. The controlled news and entertainment media will only point out that mentally deranged people are getting the weapons "
legally" and the mainstream's preplanned solution is to go further and further into doing background checks. Pardon my bluntness, but that is bullshit. Psychologists and Psychiatrists dream of the day that every person that wants to own a firearm must go through them in order to get it. Most people would never qualify. So, from a
strategic POV, why would you want to hijack my thread to give liberals the opportunity to dismiss my work? That has
NEVER made sense to me. Maybe you come up short on critical thinking skills (no insult intended) and need to do some research. Political strategies are a lot like chess. For that reason, the person who starts a thread needs to be the one that has the last say. If your post has no direct connection to a
strategic conversation, it is counterproductive. Not to be nasty, but you are doing more to help the left than they can do by themselves. For chits and giggles, let's run through this.
I'm trying to prevent the criminally insane from running loose in society. My focus is on identifying
THEM, not trying to put society under constant surveillance. Why punish society just to make it safe for the criminally insane to be able to run amok? So, I have said here is how you identify them, here is how you treat them, and here is how you keep them away from firearms. THAT is the conversation. You step in and want to know where a Mexican kid got the guns from. Now we're back to gun control and there is no way in HELL that anyone is ever going to discuss the many posts leading up to that irrelevant question. We will never discuss the proposal again under that method. And we know it don't stop there. Now we identify all those people and we're talking conspiracy theories, race, and the criminal acts of the left. None of it is worth a tinker's damn if you want to know how we can preserve our Rights by identifying those silly S.O.B.s and take them off the streets. If we implemented the proposal I'm suggesting, it wouldn't matter where the guns came from because that lunatic would have been identified years ago and, most likely, be in a mental facility where he belonged all the time. See, here in the general forum, I'm keeping my word. We will go down a thousand rabbit holes to talk about what
you want to talk about. In a strategic discussion, there is an end game.
What I'd hoped for in that particular thread was for a liberal to come along and try some of those arguments a state representative made to me. He said it wouldn't work because we can't have non-government agencies taking people to court. I said, "The Hell you can't.
Our probation offices are run by private companies and probation violations are crimes... and who do criminals answer to? A probation officer in the private sector has jurisdiction over the person on probation." That is an example of the conversation we need. If someone were to try and tell us we need to do it like they do in (name your favorite country), I can tell them why that won't work in the U.S. But, if what you post has no relevance to the over all objective in the AMERICAN STRATEGY forum, then we may as well be like that other board, but Hell just have one topic forum and one thread. If we don't stay in the ballpark of a topic, why bother having them? Maybe that is the more relevant question.
Since you want to go off on a tangent and that discussion about kids getting guns and training is important to you, let me end this by telling you. I know how. I just can't prove all of it ...YET. Kids are being recruited on social media. They spend inordinate amounts of time on sites where they play certain kinds of videos with culture distorting noise they call "
music." In the case of what I saw it was drilled into the kid with this noise ("
music") and violent video cartoons featuring stick figure cartoons that death and destruction were the only solutions. These kids show up at political rallies of a certain persuasion and act like they are supporters. They are brainwashed dolts that operate something closely akin to what you may have saw in the movie
The Manchurian Candidate except that nobody gives these kids a code word. This stuff is in their heads 24 / 7. The repetition of that noise and the cartoons and other crap that is presented as entertainment
literally changes their DNA. It's like a drug, an addiction. Whoever is behind it helps arm them, prep them, and train them. These kids think they're doing it on their own, but they aren't that smart.
Said out loud, it sounds like made up shit out of the movies. But that is exactly how the Muslims were doing it from over there in the Middle East. People were being radicalized via the Internet. In these kids case, they are being taught that there is NO legal / political solution. Violence, death, and destruction is the only way to effect change is the subliminal message that is drilled into these weak minded people. Psychologists and Psychiatrists want everyone to undergo a background check and the
overwhelming majority of people won't qualify because a youthful indiscretion will last forever in the NEW WORLD ORDER. And those who are criminally insane will be allowed to go through life, still posing a danger of one sort or another. That's a topic all its own and, again, in the strategy forum, I'm avoiding that because even if you know it, it does not help promote the over all objective of solving that problem the thread deals with.
Moral: In the AMERICAN STRATEGY FORUM make your posts have relevance to the thread. If you want to go down a rabbit hole with some other concern that comes up but, isn't related, start a thread. I will participate if you like.
