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Perhaps I just grossly misunderstood the rules. Rating systems in my mind have always been to express agreement or disagreement with a perspective. I disagree with probably 95% of the posts in question and yes, many of them are extremely homophobic, xenophobic, or flat out misinformation that should not be read by anyone, ever. It's not a matter of disagreeing on points and counterpoints and having a meaningful discussion - those things happen all the time and aren't circle-jerks or rate wars. You can take an opposing view without distorting or flat-out making up 'facts' to support your case.

Like I said - I'm just shutting myself down on the gbaji front. It's not like he understood or even tried to empathize with a single thing I've said over the years anyway.

Hahaha this is funny.

As one of "the several" (edit: Probably, Ive rated down a lot of his posts so I just assume I am one of the few, but then again i don't go out of my way to do it so maybe im not.) who do vote down his comments on a regular basis, "working as intended".



Edited, Apr 29th 2014 1:12pm by rdmcandie

I don't rate him down because I don't believe him. He's just keeping things lively. Oh sure, he's most likely conservative. But there's no way he can believe in half the things he claims to. Not even Rush believes all that crap, he's just paid to be a shock-jock of sorts. gbaji just likes to push buttons.

Rush is getting paid just fine, don't worry.

I tend to assume that people are every bit as stupid as their comments illustrate. While it would be wonderful if all the troglodytes were just kidding, that's how you get unpleasantly surprised when you were expecting some secret best from someone and instead find out that they really are the person they "pretended" to be. A brief look at some of the people elected to Congress shows that people who think like Gbaji or Varus are in no short supply so it'd hardly be a unicorn sighting to have a couple hanging around here.

He's been boring lately. Far too much obsession with sports (so not better than sports talk) and pitching his books. If I have to spend another twenty minutes listening to some person call in obviously waiting for Rush to offer them a free signed copy, I'm going to have to try this NPR thing you're talking about.

Hold off on NPR til next week, it's Begging Week (TM) right now and they're even more annoying than Rush, as impossible as it sounds.

I switch to a CD in disgust and then grudgingly toss them ten bucks on the website.

Here's the thing about gbaji: He expresses many of the same feelings and ides that Varrus does; he just couches his words so as to not look as rabid.

I've (sadly) met plenty of people who are gbaji-clones when it comes to their belief system. I have zero problem believing he's that dumb/easily led.



DISCLAIMER: I have rated gbaji down when what I read is particularly obnoxious. I don't think I'm on Kao's hit list, though, as I'm not rating down everything and I even rate him up from time to time (usually not in =4, but in other forums).

It assuages guilt for stealing radio (as GTA III put it.) That's all.

One time we got a deal where, as a student, you could donate $25 and get bumped to the $125 tier which got you a really nice "GBP Supporter" card good for discounts at local restaurants and stuff. That was nice.

I pay my $5 a month to di.fm for commercial free music at home. If I could pay $60 a year to shut the ads on NPR up, I would.

They seem to have begging week more and more often these days :/

Turn off the power to save money?