A Farewell from the CanadianKid

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CanadianKid

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Hello all,

These are my final thoughts from over 12 years of discussing politics on various boards including Politics.com, FullPolitics.com, and JustPlainPolitics.com. I used to be a regular poster, actually a quite religious poster on political boards. But in the last I would say 5 years, I have been going on the boards less and less frequently and now maybe once or twice a year.

I've always understood politics to be about "winners" and "losers", a form of verbal warfare, where people can settle their differences without actual violence. You know, I regularly engaged in this activity, and I was quite good at it, but the end result is nothing ever gets resolved. I had hoped that politics would lead to a more civil discourse where the collective wisdom of the people will be used to further benefit the people governed under the political system. This in every case, has not happened, and frankly, I don't think it will ever happen. Why is that? Well I believe that humans are ingrained with a selfish gene as well as a conflict gene so it is in the human nature to have conflicts. This can only be solved by the Big Man upstairs.

Political boards, like high schools, are full of creatures of different tastes, colours, and ideals. The only difference is that in a real high school the teachers and principals can tell you to shut the fuck up, whereas on political boards, there are only idle threats. This just leads to petty lunch time food fights, which while fun, gets old over time.

I have met some truly worthy adversaries on the boards, but mostly just a bunch of school yard punks/ keyboard warriors. I am no longer a kid, anymore, although my ideals and beliefs remain true to this day.

I wish everybody on this board success in their life, and I just want to remind people to not judge others unless you have walked in their shoes. To all those who I have offended, well you kinda deserved it....

To all the witty and satirical posters on here, I say BRAVO.

You will not see the CanadianKid anymore on this political board or any board from this day forward.

I exit this arena, Stage Left.

Good night and Good luck.

CK
 
Winning an online political discussion online is like winning a gold metal at the special olympics, yea, you got the metal but you're still retarded.
 
I disagree.
I think that many people are on the fence politicaly.
A good debate here may not convince your debate opponent but may well sway someone else.
 
in all sincerity, this is probably the most intelligent and sentient I have ever seen canadiankid. good luck bro
 
CanadianKid said:
Hello all,

These are my final thoughts from over 12 years of discussing politics on various boards including Politics.com, FullPolitics.com, and JustPlainPolitics.com. I used to be a regular poster, actually a quite religious poster on political boards. But in the last I would say 5 years, I have been going on the boards less and less frequently and now maybe once or twice a year.

I've always understood politics to be about "winners" and "losers", a form of verbal warfare, where people can settle their differences without actual violence. You know, I regularly engaged in this activity, and I was quite good at it, but the end result is nothing ever gets resolved. I had hoped that politics would lead to a more civil discourse where the collective wisdom of the people will be used to further benefit the people governed under the political system. This in every case, has not happened, and frankly, I don't think it will ever happen. Why is that? Well I believe that humans are ingrained with a selfish gene as well as a conflict gene so it is in the human nature to have conflicts. This can only be solved by the Big Man upstairs.

Political boards, like high schools, are full of creatures of different tastes, colours, and ideals. The only difference is that in a real high school the teachers and principals can tell you to shut the fuck up, whereas on political boards, there are only idle threats. This just leads to petty lunch time food fights, which while fun, gets old over time.

I have met some truly worthy adversaries on the boards, but mostly just a bunch of school yard punks/ keyboard warriors. I am no longer a kid, anymore, although my ideals and beliefs remain true to this day.

I wish everybody on this board success in their life, and I just want to remind people to not judge others unless you have walked in their shoes. To all those who I have offended, well you kinda deserved it....

To all the witty and satirical posters on here, I say BRAVO.

You will not see the CanadianKid anymore on this political board or any board from this day forward.

I exit this arena, Stage Left.

Good night and Good luck.

CK
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i know what you mean and contemplate doing the same thing

the political scene has gotten rather disgusting and some times i feel like adding to some of the back and forth why do you bother trading insults when neither party is doing anything worth reading

i think that damo is running a sort of insane asylum and i ask myself, what am i doing here

oh well
 
I don't know if that was intended to be ironic satire, or if he's serious, but, let's examine some of the problems...

1) CanadianChild only ever engaged in mud-slinging and incivility. The last five years he has made it a point to show up and hit-and-run Damo, Dano, Desh, and anyone else he felt like antagonizing.

2) How the fuck did it take you 12 years to discover that online politics is a futile endeavor? Seriously, I am pretty sure CK was always cynical enough for this to come quickly to him. I was only 16 when I started posting on Politics.Com (a particularly chaotic and unruly site), and I could tell that the posters were mean-spirited enough in most cases to not be getting through to one another. By the time FP was falling apart, I had pretty well devolved into my current self, spending most of my time in the Off Topic/Whatever Goes threads goofing off, and less time discussing actual politics.

3) I'm perfectly willing to accept that CK grew up, as he probably started posting while in high school like I did, but as a poster, these sites have made me far less mature and adult over time than the opposite (so time away may have helped). My 16-year-old self on Politics.Com ran circles around me at maturity and civility, which is kind of sad, but also hilarious. I could say hanging around with the trolls, and the likes of Topspin and those of his ilk have helped me to settle into unpleasantness. I just don't buy that CK actually grew-up, because of his stupid drive-bys over the last several years.
 
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