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Old 02-12-2023, 04:55 PM   #10
Mike P
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Originally Posted by tattoobob View Post
Politics has no place on a fishing forum
I agree, but if you don't give the bomb throwers on each side a place to throw bombs, they'll do it in either the Main Forum or the Scuppers.

Look at SOL. Timmy tossed a bunch of guys out of his politics forum, and they just took over the Town Tavern. If you start a fisheries regulation thread in the Mass forum, sooner or later someone's going to throw in a political post and then all hell breaks loose. I get to be the bad guy for deleting the crap.

These sites are just a microcosm of the US today. Whatever happened to the days when Reagan would invite Tip O'Neill over to the WH in the evening, and they'd work out compromises over a bottle of Irish whiskey?

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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