Is this generally a conservative forum?

[tigerblood]

I just joined up today after being frustrated with too many immature kids/people that can't speak proper english or speak other languages (wtf) on another sports site.

After surfing through here a bit and after seeing the poll about who you would vote for (Trump? really? lol) it seems this is pretty much a righty site?

Not that there's anything wrong with it. I'm a liberal but have nothing against rights. I actually agree with many aspects of the conservatives. I'm just curious. That's all.

I've never seen a sports site that was so bias towards one government. It's strange. As if I walked into the deep south in a small town. Lol.

Anyway, I just checked out the thread filled with hot costa rican girls so I'm sold.

 

[JudgeWapner]

My estimate is around 75-25 conservative.

 

[The Guesser]

I just joined up today after being frustrated with too many immature kids/people that can't speak proper english or speak other languages (wtf) on another sports site.

After surfing through here a bit and after seeing the poll about who you would vote for (Trump? really? lol) it seems this is pretty much a righty site?

Not that there's anything wrong with it. I'm a liberal but have nothing against rights. I actually agree with many aspects of the conservatives. I'm just curious. That's all.

I've never seen a sports site that was so bias towards one government. It's strange. As if I walked into the deep south in a small town. Lol.

Anyway, I just checked out the thread filled with hot costa rican girls so I'm sold.

At least 20-1. But it's more like a stormfront.org site. Racism abounds. Muslims are sub human. The POTUS is a Muslim Kenyan, who is destroying America while he prints up his fake Birth Certificate.
Opposing views are ridiculed, and you run the risk of being stalked and your real life info revealed if you present your opposing views too strongly. There are a few normal Conservatives, but they are overpowered by the sickos.
Good luck, enjoy your stay.

 

[hehateme82]

At least 20-1. But it's more like a stormfront.org site. Racism abounds. Muslims are sub human. The POTUS is a Muslim Kenyan, who is destroying America while he prints up his fake Birth Certificate.
Opposing views are ridiculed, and you run the risk of being stalked and your real life info revealed if you present your opposing views too strongly. There are a few normal Conservatives, but they are overpowered by the sickos.
Good luck, enjoy your stay.

And yet, here you are.

 

[vidswaps]

I just joined up today after being frustrated with too many immature kids/people that can't speak proper english or speak other languages (wtf) on another sports site.

After surfing through here a bit and after seeing the poll about who you would vote for (Trump? really? lol) it seems this is pretty much a righty site?

Not that there's anything wrong with it. I'm a liberal but have nothing against rights. I actually agree with many aspects of the conservatives. I'm just curious. That's all.

I've never seen a sports site that was so bias towards one government. It's strange. As if I walked into the deep south in a small town. Lol.

Anyway, I just checked out the thread filled with hot costa rican girls so I'm sold.

Welcome to the RepublicuntXenophobeforum.

Enjoy your stay.cheersgif

 

[ScottL]

Sumday usually waits a month before she tries again. Same posting style. Dead giveaway. What a moron.

 

[GasMan]

Once again people prove they are clueless about the deep south...bet this ass clown has never even been to the south, just like the rest of the classless liberal.pussies on here.

 

[scottcarter]

At least 20-1. But it's more like a stormfront.org site. Racism abounds. Muslims are sub human. The POTUS is a Muslim Kenyan, who is destroying America while he prints up his fake Birth Certificate.
Opposing views are ridiculed, and you run the risk of being stalked and your real life info revealed if you present your opposing views too strongly. There are a few normal Conservatives, but they are overpowered by the sickos.
Good luck, enjoy your stay.

Many use the word racism and scream racism when there clearly isn't any. Illegals aren't a race but obviously that doesn't matter to some. Are there some racists and Muslim haters? Probably. But most are just against radical Islamists. You know, like those that want to kill people. Also, most believe in legal immigration and think its wrong that the government doesn't enforce the laws of the land and discriminates against those that apply to come to the country legally. They have no problems with Mexicans or any other group of people. Just illegals. Which again, isn't race. Seems reasonable to most people, including me. Nearly every country has borders and enforces them.

 

[The Guesser]

Many use the word racism and scream racism when there clearly isn't any. Illegals aren't a race but obviously that doesn't matter to some. Are there some racists and Muslim haters? Probably. But most are just against radical Islamists. You know, like those that want to kill people. Also, most believe in legal immigration and think its wrong that the government doesn't enforce the laws of the land and discriminates against those that apply to come to the country legally. They have no problems with Mexicans or any other group of people. Just illegals. Which again, isn't race. Seems reasonable to most people, including me. Nearly every country has borders and enforces them.

Thanks for the laughs. EVERYONE is against Radical Islamists. Except for the sick, terrorist supporting POS. But the idiots that hate Muslims, want to ban them, and register the ones that are already here, like the fascist you support, isn't talking about just Radical Islamists.

 

[scottcarter]

Thanks for the laughs. EVERYONE is against Radical Islamists. Except for the sick, terrorist supporting POS. But the idiots that hate Muslims, want to ban them, and register the ones that are already here, like the fascist you support, isn't talking about just Radical Islamists.

cheersgif

Just telling you how I see it.

 

[ShotgunPete]

Thanks for the laughs. EVERYONE is against Radical Islamists. Except for the sick, terrorist supporting POS. But the idiots that hate Muslims, want to ban them, and register the ones that are already here, like the fascist you support, isn't talking about just Radical Islamists.

I'm all for bringing Muslim refugee's here, right after Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia start taking them in first.

 

[scottcarter]

I'm all for bringing Muslim refugee's here, right after Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia start taking them in first.

many people feel the same way. Me included.

 

[busterhyman]

don't get it. stop all immigration- unless someone can support themselves. all good things end. 50% already support the other 50%. how many people are we going to put on the backs of the workers .

 

[The Guesser]

I'm all for bringing Muslim refugee's here, right after Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia start taking them in first.

They have. I'm no fan of Saudi Arabia, but the myth that haven't taken in any refugees is just that, a myth.

[h=1]Western Media’s Miscount of Saudi Arabia’s Syrian Refugees[/h]
09/23/2015 11:57 am ET | Updated Feb 04, 2016

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  Anhvinh DoanvoWriter @ The Hill. Former counterterrorism researcher at the Global Initiative. Graduate Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship finalist. @anhvinhdoanvo

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In the face of mounting criticism from human rights leaders like Malala Yousafzai, who have called Europe’s response to Syrian refugees “pitiful”, EU leaders have struggled to develop systems of collective responsibility for the refugees. Finger-pointing and a human rights tragedy of the commons has come to characterize tepid responses from Germany’s Angela Merkel, the UK’s David Cameron, as well as Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia.

The unease created by facts on this human rights tragedy has allowed specious analysis on Saudi Arabia’s and other Gulf States’ response to the crisis to proliferate throughout the West’s media. Thanks to a technicality in counting refugees, hundreds of outlets from Amnesty International to the Brookings Institution have claimed that Saudi Arabia has taken zero refugees—a ludicrous, but rarely fact-checked statement given the comical lack of a “Great Arabian Wall.”

Over the past several months, we have been constantly fed graphics and analysis like the one below from Luay Al-Khatteeb, a fellow of the Brookings Institution. They have indicated that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE have apparently taken zero Syrian refugees. The claim has been cited by nearly every Western publication. A cursory search returns venerable sources including Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, and CNN all falling for the myth.



The above graphic was originally posted by Luay Al-Khatteeb, a researcher associated with the Brookings Institution.

The data source of all of these publications seems to be the UN High Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) itself, which notes that over 4,000,000 refugees have been registered by the UNHCR in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. None of these refugees are registered in any of the Gulf States, including Saudi Arabia.

However, a look at Saudi Arabia’s UNHCR page has a few curious footnotes that Western publications are conveniently omitting. The UNHCR counts refugees by noting only those “persons recognized as refugees under the 1951 UN Convention/1967 Protocol, the 1969 OAU Convention, in accordance with the UNHCR Statute, persons granted a complementary form of protection and those granted temporary protection.“ Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE are not parties to any of the UN protocols on refugees, and so through this technicality, they, along with most of their refugees, are excluded from many refugee counting mechanisms.

And as if the statement that Saudi Arabia has not taken any refugees were not preposterous enough, with the lack of a “Great Arabian Wall” of sorts, numerous commentators have conveniently overlooked the fact that the noted Gulf States are not included in maps of UNHCR progress reports like this one. One would think that such maps might raise the question, why aren’t any of the Gulf States included in the graphics? And given their exclusion from many UN refugee graphics, one might also ask, is the absence of Syrian refugees in Saudi Arabia really due to an astonishingly secure border? Or just a technicality that pundits have deceitfully misinterpreted?

Somehow, even in today’s “enlightened” age where information on human rights is democratized and widely disseminated, the complete absence of Syrian refugees in Saudi Arabia is more plausible than the idea of human misinterpretation of statistics. It’s an inconvenient truth that needs to be addressed.

With Saudi Arabia’s non-signatory status, the Syrians residing in Saudi Arabia are classified as “Arab brothers and sisters in distress” instead of refugees covered by UN treaties. According to Nabil Othman, the UNHCR regional representative to the Gulf region, there were 500,000 Syrian refugees in Saudi Arabia at the time of his statement. The government itself of Saudi Arabia has stated that it has, over the past five years since the start of the conflict hosted 2.5 million refugees.

Because the noted treaties establish treatment standards for refugees, some might raise concerns regarding the conditions that Saudi Arabia’s refugees may be living in. However, Al-Arabiya, a news outlet based in the UAE, has noted that “Saudi authorities granted Syrians the right of residency and work, and provided them with education and health services for free.” According to the Saudi government, over 100,000 children are currently receiving education in the country’s schools. Saudi Arabia is not alone in attempts to provide education for the refugees, with Lebanon now providing schooling for another 100,000 child refugees.

The silence on this issue has redirected the conversation to an absurd idea instead of progressing towards verification of Saudi Arabia’s treatment of Syrian refugees. By focusing on a myth that could easily be debunked with even a cursory look at the UN’s procedures for publishing refugee statistics, the West’s media organizations have been too distracted to verify the Saudi government’s claims.

This entire matter has been quite illustrative of the pitiful proliferation of modern-day yellow journalism, where even the most bizarre misconceptions are palatable enough to become part of mainstream political debates. Syria’s and Europe’s human rights travesty needs no exaggeration. Merkel’s, Cameron’s, Eastern Europe’s, and the US’s pitiful responses cannot be excused by this lie. It has only served to tarnish the worldly reputation of revered organizations like the Brookings Institution and Amnesty International. The claim is the Birtherism of refugee policy, and it’s time we put at least a modicum of effort into determining the exact conditions on the ground.

This post originally appeared on AmericaBlog.com, a site dedicated to commentary on American politics.

 

[The Guesser]

many people feel the same way. Me included.

So now that you know they have been taking them in, are you man enough to repudiate Drumpf's sick, facsist, Anti everything America stands for, plan to exclude Muslims from coming here simply because of their Religion?

[h=1]THE GULF STATES ARE TAKING SYRIAN REFUGEES[/h]BY ALEX NOWRASTEH ON 12/4/15 AT 11:13 AM

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Syrian refugees stand outside their tents at a centre funded by the International Islamic Relief Organization of Saudi Arabia (IIROSA), which provides shelter for Syrian refugees, during a winter storm in al-Marj, in the Bekaa valley January 7, 2013. The World Bank reports that 1,000,000 Syrians resided in Saudi Arabia in 2013, a whopping 795 percent increase over 2010.AFIF DIAB/REUTERSOPINIONSYRIAN REFUGEESGULFSAUDI ARABIASYRIA
​Many more Syrians are living in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States than at the beginning of the Syriancivil war in 2011.
The World Bank reports that 1,000,000 Syrians resided in Saudi Arabia in 2013, a whopping 795 percent increase over 2010. There were 1,375,064 Syrian migrants living in the Gulf States in 2013, a 470 percent increase over 2010.
Excluding Oman, the 2013 Syrian population in every Gulf State has increased dramatically since right before the beginning of the Syrian civil war.

 

[superbeets]

3 February 2016, 19:02 UTC

Amnesty International


Sources: UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), International Organization of Migration (IOM)


Key facts:

• Gulf countries including Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees.
• Other high income countries including Russia, Japan, Singapore and South Korea have also offered zero resettlement places.
• Germany has pledged 39,987 places for Syrian refugees through its humanitarian admission programme and individual sponsorship; about 54% of the EU total.
• Germany and Serbia together have received 57% Syrian asylum applications in Europe between April 2011 and July 2015
• Excluding Germany and Sweden, the remaining 26 EU countries have pledged around 30,903resettlement places, or around 0.7% of the Syrian refugee population in the main host countries

International Resettlement

In total, 162,151 resettlement places have been offered globally since the start of the Syria crisis, which equates to a mere 3.6% of the total population of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and Turkey.
At least 450,000 people in the five main host countries - or 10% - are in need of resettlement according to the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR.
Amnesty International is calling for at least 10% of Syria’s most vulnerable refugees to be offered resettlement or other forms of admission by the end of 2016




Refugees in the region

More than 4.5 million refugees from Syria are in just five countries Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt:

• Turkey hosts 2.5 million refugees from Syria, more than any other country worldwide
• Lebanon hosts approximately 1.1 million refugees from Syria which amounts to around one in five people in the country
• Jordan hosts approximately 635,324 refugees from Syria, which amounts to about 10% of the population

• Iraq where 3.9 million people are already internally displaced hosts 245,022 refugees from Syria
• Egypt hosts 117,658 refugees from Syria

The UN’s 2015 humanitarian appeal for Syrian refugees was just 61% funded by the end of the year.
Funding shortages mean that the most vulnerable Syrian refugees in Lebanon receive just $21.60 per person month or around US$0.70 cent a day for food assistance, well below the UN’s poverty line of US$1.90
86% of Syrian refugees in urban areas in Jordan are living below the local poverty line.



​Conflict in Syria

According to the UN around 250,000 people have been killed and 13.5 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance inside Syria
More than 50% of Syria’s population is currently displaced
One-in-every-two of those crossing the Mediterranean this year – half a million people – were Syrians escaping the conflict in their country




LINK

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/02/syrias-refugee-crisis-in-numbers/

 

[Albatross]

A person from Minnesota talking shit about the south....lol.

 

[roadreeler57]

I'm all for bringing Muslim refugee's here, right after Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia start taking them in first.

Im all for Saudi Arabia taking them all in & we take none....90% of them are on welfare & a debtor nation cant afford to pay out borrowed money...I wish wherever our Government is borrowing money from would cut the credit cards up & teach our politicians some fiscal responsibility instead of them buying votes & other things with money we dont have...

 

[MantisToboggan]

The number of guys lining up to vote for Donald Trump kind of disproves the idea that this is a "conservative" forum.

 

[vitterd]

The number of guys lining up to vote for Donald Trump kind of disproves the idea that this is a "conservative" forum.

It's more an idiotic forum than conservative......and Trump owns the idiot vote. But he has an R behind his name, wants to get rid of illegals and calls Hillary and Obama names....that's gonna make him popular here.