Didn't close the thread. There's the OT forum, there's this thread, there's multiple places to have that discussion here. Which is fine with me. In fact, it's great. But politics is involved now in so much we read about sports that we can't even just have a fun hockey trade without having to talk about something negative or controversial yet again. It's draining.
It's a Calgary Flames hockey board. Sometimes people here just want to talk about hockey. Especially when a big trade happens. That's all. Hope you get why I was getting annoyed.
Why is it political? Did I bring up the carbon tax or whether or not building a wall will benefit border security? Anything about student loans being forgiven or enforced? Those are political topics.
The Flames just traded for someone who made league wide news last year for refusing to support LGBT people for whatever reason. That's something you'd think would come up in the trade thread. If they trade for Evander Kane or Carter Hart, or hire Bill Peters, what do you expect people will be discussing?
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I guess I must be missing the critical assumption: it's political to be LGBT or even speak of such people and it's apolitical to be straight and cisgender and assume everyone else is.
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I guess I must be missing the critical assumption: it's political to be LGBT or even speak of such people and it's apolitical to be straight and cisgender and assume everyone else is.
This. Yes. This.
For example when it comes to youth no one asks a straight or cis kid if they're 'sure' about their identity etc.
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I do have to laugh, a thread about Monahan being traded is full of "F Treliving" "Nice wizarding Treliving". But talking about Kuzmenko who was actually part of the trade, is going off topic and causing a bunch of whining about a pretty tame post.
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It was a brilliant play by the right. They make it political to be part of the lqbtq community or support them, then they say "don't shove your politics down my throat".
I can't speak for other mods but I will say often I pop in here for a few minutes then get busy with life and and then will pop in again later in the day. Or not at all. Or I'm at work all day. Things get missed. Please don't take a poor post left up as us condoning it. I will take a look.
Yes, a thankless volunteer job for sure. We know the mods do their best.
I do have to laugh, a thread about Monahan being traded is full of "F Treliving" "Nice wizarding Treliving". But talking about Kuzmenko who was actually part of the trade, is going off topic and causing a bunch of whining about a pretty tame post.
Thanks for calling out the hypocrisy for what it is. I'm glad there's a handful of posters in here that get it.
I do have to laugh, a thread about Monahan being traded is full of "F Treliving" "Nice wizarding Treliving". But talking about Kuzmenko who was actually part of the trade, is going off topic and causing a bunch of whining about a pretty tame post.
Every time I see you post, and ironically in a thread about LGBT Pride...all I can think of is:
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What the hell are you even doing, man? This thread was last posted in 10 months ago and the post you're responding to was like 500 of 1300 posts. Still struggling with them gays being equal, hey?
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What the hell are you even doing, man? This thread was last posted in 10 months ago and the post you're responding to was like 500 of 1300 posts. Still struggling with them gays being equal, hey?
Here is a timeline. First, I posted multiple times in this thread about how awesome the logo is, how it's super cool they're auctioning them off and it's going to a great cause.
Then I posted about how the jersey was super expensive, but I was super happy with the puck i purchased.
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I picked up one of the pucks. It's much higher quality than I expected. I can't get over how great the design in. I might be a bit biased, but this is the nicest logo in the NHL by far.
Then KelVarnsen told everyone he bought a jersey and was going to frame it as per the post below.
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I was already pretty damn proud and happy I won a jersey in the auction.
Posts from certain posters make me even prouder and happier.
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Frame it.
Im now circling back - if it's done, I'd love to see pics. KelVarnsen was super excited about his jersey purchase and I was super excited for him. Why is asking for framed pics of said jersey anti-lgtbq or homophobic?
Jayswin, your post is super unprovoked, unwarranted and offensive. You should genuinely want to apologize. I actually don't even understand why you posted that?
Very sad what is happening to Calgarypuck IMO. Super toxic
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Ah okay, I assumed based on your political posts in the off topic forum and genuine shock at the length of time gone by in the thread and original post to come in and suddenly respond. I'm sorry for that.
Had forgotten how sick that Flames Pride logo was. They do have a pride section in their merch store but only one item, a tumbler, with the floral style. If the Flames ever did another Heritage Classic and turned this warm up jersey into a real one I would flip out, it's gorgeous.
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Ah okay, I assumed based on your political posts in the off topic forum and genuine shock at the length of time gone by in the thread and original post to come in and suddenly respond. I'm sorry for that.
Why don't you keep track of folks and what they say and then make binary assumptions to paint people based on their "political posts". It always reflects well on you. What a lame response of "ah okay"....like you will let him off this time.
Gullfoss - Puck does look legit. I like that.
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There’s nothing toxic about it. jayswin is an ally. If you aren’t you should be dancing in the street since there are no more pride nights.
So we have a guy in GullFloss that has political views that often align with people who are not supportive of Pride displays. He avoids a tribal mentality here, and thinks for himself rather than adopting the views of his "political team" and makes a financial and public show of support for a Pride event.
Assuming negative intent on his posts is toxic, and a tribal view of Pride from the other side is just as damaging. This is the stuff that entrenches "us versus them", when the whole point of Pride is to eliminate "us versus them" and turn it into just universally "us".
Jayswin admitted he made a mistake, so all good, we move on.
GullFloss, I don't always align with your politics, but I love someone understands where politics have absolutely no place, such as universally supporting equal rights for all. This was great to see.
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Still struggling with them gays being equal, hey?
What a lame response of "ah okay"....like you will let him off this time. 
