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Originally Posted by rubicon
Bringing back Political Talk was a good thing and something I looked forward to when signing on each time. TOTV was wise to establish the format they had when they re-established it; albeit I wished they had at least allowed a poster to edit his/her comments.
Having said that yesterday's comments on a Political Talk post tried my patience once too many times. So my last post on Political Talk was an announcement of taking a break from Political Talk. The reason was at least one poster who continually posts hateful moronic comments .
The desire to post hateful remarks on TOTV isn't for the most part the reason for anonymity. In my view people just like their privacy. Indeed the years spent on TOTV have taught those types are few and far between.
Returning to Political Talk you have heard my "in our family you were required to debate politics and religion, it was cooking debates that got you into real trouble. You have witnessed the cooking debacle on these pages may time via restaurant discussions, etc.
As to boring no because the true value in my view is listening (reading) what other people think, its how they reason, etc.
I was at a mall yesterday and noticed a guy with a cigar in his mouth and I made comment that I'll bet he liked to light that up. He smiled and said no stopped smoking 40 years ago but still like to chew the darn things. From there I learned his career choice had been academia and from there about a half hour conversation
Free speech is guaranteed to offend somebody but free speech is also an invigorating exercise which fills that vacuum we call knowledge and which we have a right to retain or expel.
As to moderators, well they have a tough job but rules are rules and when one signs on they agree to the rules. beside if a moderator strikes one of my post s/he may have done me a favor by preventing me from making a jerk of myself 
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I have felt like throwing up from some of the recent stuff on the political board. It is hardly boring though.
I am on the various Facebook groups of Villagers at least the ones I know about. But will stay on TOTV as well as I have been on here since July 2007.