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Baxter G.

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About Me

Wartime military veteran, licensed appraiser and forensic investigator.

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I keep my hands in about everything that I can to keep myself occupied.

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Art, science, political discussion.

2 Reviews by Baxter

  • Democratic Underground

8/11/20

I was, a long time ago mind you, one of the more active members of the site. Being that I was there from almost it's inception. Now in this day and age I can tell you that you should just look elsewhere.
The site is full of nothing more than one poster doing their best to spew hate about one person, or an entire demographic and yes, that does mean spew in the most egregious racial terms as well. With no one ever batting an eye at how gross such statements tend to be. They will even join in and do much of the same to whatever target the original poster had first chosen. And I've seen everything from hard racial slurs. To avocations of pedophilia being used as means of punishment for those who's only crime was having the wrong political stance, or something as simple as a different opinion.

I tried to return once and that was over a year ago.
The very first post I replied to was on the main forum and it was nothing but bile against republicans, with nothing even resembling rhyme, or reason. I asked for some form of dialogue to be brought up about the actual topic on discussion and within six hours my new account was permanently banned.

Once again. Stay away from this site at all cost.

  • DebatePolitics

10/25/19

Up front, I must give you a warning about this particular site. You're going to find people who share many different political opinions and you're also going to see some people who're just out there to troll you for the fun of it.
Being a former democrat and having issues with the way that the current political party is moving. I found myself being attacked, insulted and even attacked racially from time to time. A fact that some of the admins are aware of and just don't care, or they who heartedly endorse it. Though there are times when you can be a Trump supporter and receive decent support, the amount of times you'll be the target of continuous attacks that are blatantly allowed, will outstrip the anti-Trump members ratings. However the anti-Trump members are more numerous and will sometimes take it way too far. Which is why you see instances of them getting either flooded with warnings, or banned.

Some of the moderators such as RedAkston, Serenity and sever others are fully aware of the issues plaguing the site. But they will most likely direct you to a section of the site that is meant for insulting those who have legitimate issues with how it's being run.

The site is decent enough if you want to have a common conversation about politics. But you must stay away from areas like the basement and resist the urge to post to any blatant anti-party threads. Else you'll be attacked and derided by posters with the full leave of almost all the admins.

So you've been warned.

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