Can we please stop with the politics?

Anonymous sports forums aren't good places for political rants.  Despite the proliferation of #fakenews on facebook it is a good forum because you know your crazy uncle or crazy nephew and you can point them to snopes or politifact or the WSJ/NYT to call them on their BS.  

I get that there are radical changes going on and the whole Martin Niemoller "when the took away the X I did nothing" thing, but speak up and talk to people you know and not random folks on MGoBlog.   My repeated talking point isn't going to convince you that your repeated talking point is wrong.

Isn’t 1984 some kind of political reference...?

You see, this is why we can't have nice things.

Potato Salad.

things have gotten much worse after the roll out of the new format.

i say we focus on Making MGOBLOG Great Again.

A few weeks back, I posted about a lawsuit that's challenging Michigan's Bias Response Team on the grounds it's violating the first amendment. I had heard about the lawsuit on one of the political channels, from one of the more polarizing talking heads. This was news to me, and I wanted to know more from current students. Unsurprisingly, I got ripped a new one (I totally expected that to happen) but surprisingly, the name of the polarizing talking head was redacted. I did not support that person in the post, I merely cited him as my source. I offered no opinion or judgment in the post. I merely asked whether people knew about this, as it was a lawsuit involving the University of Michigan, my alma mater. I was actually stunned that the mod felt the need to redact the name, and respond as tersely as he did. That we can't even discuss something that directly pertains to Michigan (and in my opinion is not political in and of itself, but is used by people for their own political purposes) is really sad to me. 

I knew it, I'm surrounded by pussies.  If your beliefs are that fragile that what some rando says on a sports blog ruins your day, I got bad news for you, at least half the world disagrees with the things you hold dear, deal with it.  And also, there's a back arrow in the upper left corner of your browser window, use it if you don't like what people are typing.

OP this might be the greatest over-reaction on this board in a while! I usually come here once or twice a day, and rarely see any political fights break out on the board. Civil discussion is what’s wrong with this nation right now. Everyone wants to run to their radio/tv station of choice and hear all the rhetoric spewed on there. Yet never want to here differing opinions on certain subjects. This country is more fractured than ever amongst political lines, and the dems and republicans are the modern-age bloods & crips! 

Five more comment to 300.......   that's bipartisan

The Blog is so different now and the new site makes it so hard to communicate. 

Just think about it this way...most SEC fans voted for Trump. Ouch!

I can't possibly follow this thread and who is responding to who.

I actually think this thread is reasonably cathartic despite being so shit-posty. We ought to have one of these once in a while just as a Purge-y way to get some of the bad blood out.

I still remember with great fondness the 600-plus comment Brexit thread, still the most epic, unlocked, no-holds barred riot of a thread I've ever seen on here. Those of us who slugged it out in that thread all night got a little worn down, but there's something like a runner's high that kicks in after you're brawling that long. You actually feel somewhat bonded to who you're fighting.

Kinda like rugby... you try to rip their head off for an hour or two, then you go do some drinking and singing with them at the pub (note to non-ruggers, this is what you do after a rugby match). 

If you graduated from Michigan, which most of did, you should understand the importance of diversity and not hating people due to skin color or religion or gender. 

If Brian disagrees, please tell me (through an email or here). Trump and his hate do not represent anything about our school.

This “no politics” is bullshit when we have a scumbag as potUS

I really don't care about politics being inserted into threads. The thing that gets tiresome are the trolls who come on here an bash the program. There has been big increase in negative trolls who bash our recruits, bash our coaches and our fans. The trolls are a much bigger problem on the new mgoblog than politics.

You've all ruined this blog.

The politics bullshit just came with it like hpv after a shitty one night stand. 

Brian should just put an end commenting. Nobody should be subjected to anything you morons write.

It used to be fun when the jean shorts mad-dad brigade was still on m-live. Now that they're here this place has roaches on the burgers, shit on the toilet seat and no paper towels. 

Well done, everyone.

I said it before, and I'll say it again. This blog has gone to shit. Hopefully when the season starts things will return to normal.