Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I actually had a partial talk about a week ago with a couple, nice folks but fox-programmed republisheep. They were bought into some weird and mysterious idea about Russia taking over the world starting with Ukraine. As if Russia could accomplish nothing without Ukraine being conquered first... 'cause they got no other borders? (sigh)
Weird and mysterious because they couldn't provide any details at all about how, why, why NOW, and of course they had no idea about the history of the region. If I started questioning or providing facts (like why the hell would they bomb their own pipeline instead of just turning it off, historical genocide of Russians in the Donbass, or the open nazis) they got all hand-wavy and glossy-eyed, so the best I could do was strongly recommend Oliver Stone's documentary, since they're obviously easy to program through a screen.
My daughter has a lot of lefty opinions about Ukraine. She is always saying if Ukraine loses then NATO has to fight Russia because Russia wants to take over eastern Europe.
Normies aren't even CLOSE to being able to answer that. 😅