There's a BBS called "Slackers" and it has an IRC feature. I had been BBS-friends with the sysop of that BBS for almost 10 years. We used to chat about all kinds of stuff. He was a cool Canadian guy.

All along, I always blabbed pro-Trump stuff in the chat. A few of the other people in the chat are also MAGA, even some Canadian MAGA. But not my buddy, the sysop. He always stayed quiet about politics.. until one day when he started to show symptoms of TDS.

I'm a political guy, but I'm not like one of those weird guys from Burger King who ONLY talks politics 24/7. I'll talk about other stuff. But my Canadian buddy got such a bad case of TDS that he banned me from his BBS and thereby banned me from the chat too.

It's ok but it's so stupid. I love Trump and I think TDS people are stupid, but I'm nice to them and I wouldn't kick them off my BBS. What a D1ck.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to All <=-

Burger King who ONLY talks politics 24/7. I'll talk about other stuff.
But my Canadian buddy got such a bad case of TDS that he banned me from his BBS and thereby banned me from the chat too.

It's ok but it's so stupid. I love Trump and I think TDS people are stupid, but I'm nice to them and I wouldn't kick them off my BBS. What
a D1ck.

So let me tell you the stories that I have on this.

The main BBS I used to call was big one. I will be nice and not name it. This was at the hight of the COVID scamdemic and I stated some opinions about people who lined up for the jab and all the boosters. (BTW: History has proven my opinions were correct.) He didn't like what I said and at some point, he said that he blocked me.

Now I took that to mean that he added me on to his twit list so that he wouldn't have to see my messages.

Nope. He told his BBS to filter out all my messages to everywhere. So if I posted a response in a networked message base on his BBS, it went to no other system. Talk about cancel culture. On top of that, if one of my messages from a different BBS on those networked bases went THROUGH his BBS, his BBS would silently drop that message.

Now if he had simply blocked me from his BBS, that would have been fine. He's the sysop and can do that, but to quietly suppress my messages from other BBSs - a total jerk move.

I've found this happening in some other networked message bases too. Sysops of BBSs that I don't call filter my messages on their BBSs so that messages I leave on other BBSs can't go through their systems.

So I call several BBSs and overlap the networked message bases to see if my messages are getting filtered.

And there are networked message bases I don't bother to try to participate in anymore. Note that I'm probably not the only one that they did this to because most of those networks are pretty much dead now.


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if I posted a response in a networked message base on his BBS, it went
to no other system. Talk about cancel culture. On top of that, if one
of my messages from a different BBS on those networked bases went
THROUGH his BBS, his BBS would silently drop that message.

That's major overkill. This guy who kicked me off his BBS went to great lengths too. I try to log in and it says "All nodes are in use." (I'm certain that that's not some weird Mystic bug.)

If I were still running a BBS, I would certainly welcome people who disagree with my political views.

And there are networked message bases I don't bother to try to
participate in anymore. Note that I'm probably not the only one that
they did this to because most of those networks are pretty much dead now.

Zeronet is kind of a fart-sniffing operation. You have to say things that JP wants to hear or else you'll hear it from him. The 2 or 3 people who post on there know how to please him.

I like the Dovenet guys. They are pretty decent.

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On 09 Aug 2026, Aaron Thomas said the following...

It's ok but it's so stupid. I love Trump and I think TDS people are stupid, but I'm nice to them and I wouldn't kick them off my BBS. What a D1ck.

Canada is in a technical recession right now because of Trumps trade negotiations... My mother who I always believed was conservative has a case of TDS... I'm worried that she'll start to look like Rosie O'Donnell.

Canada has been fortunate to be next to the US for the time it has... The US has subsidized its existence. For example, Canada makes ~20% of the cars for the US, Trump wants to move manufacturing to the US and have Americans make the cars.

There are issues in Canada, instead of working with Trump to secure a favorable deal for everyone... we have retards negotiating for Canada.

Here's an example... Canada wants EVs... instead of having Canadians make them, we have the plants, Canada import them from CHINA.

All the liberals are back east in the 2 largest provinces and these are the people who vote these people in.

Out west Alberta will be voting this October to leave Canada, become its own country or the 51st State.

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Canada is in a technical recession right now because of Trumps trade

I get it, but I look at it this way: The Iranians have killed 14 Americans since the Iran-USA conflict began. But I'm not going to treat the Iranians who I encounter any differently. They didn't do anything to me, so I'm not going to (for example) kick them off my BBS.

Canada has been fortunate to be next to the US for the time it has...
The US has subsidized its existence. For example, Canada makes ~20% of the cars for the US, Trump wants to move manufacturing to the US and
have Americans make the cars.

I think I get that too. People always joke about how kind Canadians are, but it's actually the other way around. We've been kind to them economically, and yea, we've bought a lot of Canadian cars, and the Liberal Party was/is taking us for granted, so it's time for an orange fist up their butts ;)

Here's an example... Canada wants EVs... instead of having Canadians
make them, we have the plants, Canada import them from CHINA.

I don't know all the details, but you know where I come from. If I were to have that conversation with a Canadian leftist, I'd start with "How is it better to import EVs than to build them in Canada?" and of course they wouldn't have a logical answer.

All the liberals are back east in the 2 largest provinces and these are the people who vote these people in.

Out west Alberta will be voting this October to leave Canada, become its own country or the 51st State.

I like option #1. I think they should name it "MAGAland."

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