Theory on Phil

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Anyone else suspect that he left the forum due to his wish to get involved in local politics and was worried about anything on the forum getting out? I rememeber him mentioning a rival appeared to read the forum

[Хahar 🤔]

I think that's it.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Another thread on Phil?

Christ almighty.

[Psychic Octopus]

I wonder. Hopefully he will do an excellent job in real world politics.

[War on Want]

It is possible. I know that if I was going to get involved in local politics, I'd ditch this place immediatley.

[Psychic Octopus]

Same EMD. I'd wipe out all my posts here too. 

[Alexander Hamilton]

Same EMD. I'd wipe out all my posts here too. 

I'm surprised afleitch hasn't.

[Person Man]

There really isn't any "real world" politics where I live right now...but I have done it before and though it can be rewarding being a Student Party Official, its very easy to make gaffes.

[ilikeverin]

Same EMD. I'd wipe out all my posts here too. 

I'm surprised afleitch hasn't.

afleitch is usually pretty above-board on the Forum; rarely does he get emotional.

Keystone Phil is... Italian (*hughughug* don't eat me! )

[Alexander Hamilton]

Same EMD. I'd wipe out all my posts here too. 

I'm surprised afleitch hasn't.

afleitch is usually pretty above-board on the Forum; rarely does he get emotional.

Keystone Phil is... Italian (*hughughug* don't eat me! )

The dude just said Lockerbie bomber decision was correct.... That's not a proper public political statement. The good thing is that I think as a community we would never try to use statements here against someone's actual career. Including that asswipe Phil.

[Vepres]

I find it funny that not only somebody found this forum but that they also would use it to attack their opponents.

If I ran for office, I wouldn't care. But then again, I'm not Phil

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

They may have requested that he not post on any political forum during his involvement with whatever campaign or organization he's working for. That happens all the time.

[muon2]

Posts on any website can become political fodder. This can be especially so if the poster was adopting an unusual persona. More frequently, a poster uses the apparent anonymity of the web to take more strident positions than they would in a face-to-face meeting.

What I see most frequently are individual statements that reflect a different set of views from a particular time in one's life. This happens just as much in the other forms of communication, and politicians have to defend these past actions or statements (think "I never inhaled.") I try to be prepared to defend my actions in front of any group should they be called up in a totally unrelated group. Over 50 years this happened more than once already, though interestingly so far not between the Atlas and local politics.

The best policy is to treat the web as any other encounter with other people. So, use the same type of language and same ideas that you would in those encounters, and you should be fine in any future endeavor. That includes politics, business, or personal affairs. I hope those from the forum who have met me in person would agree that I'm the same person online as offline.

[Lunar]

I can't wait until we have a president that used to post on the internet as a kid.  The archives will be epic.

[TeePee4Prez]

Anyone else suspect that he left the forum due to his wish to get involved in local politics and was worried about anything on the forum getting out? I rememeber him mentioning a rival appeared to read the forum

Quick... I better save and file his stuff now so I can use it in the future.  I may not be joking here...

Oh wait.  He could have ammunition on me.  I think in 10 years, posts on here will be irrelevant because there will always be some candidate who gaffes something on Twitter, etc.

[Brittain33]

Anyone else suspect that he left the forum due to his wish to get involved in local politics and was worried about anything on the forum getting out? I rememeber him mentioning a rival appeared to read the forum

I can't find the "whatever happened to Keystone Phil?" thread, but I mentioned this a few days ago. He said local party people were reading his posts here.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Other- Temper Tantrum.

[dead0man]

The best policy is to treat the web as any other encounter with other people. So, use the same type of language and same ideas that you would in those encounters, and you should be fine in any future endeavor. That includes politics, business, or personal affairs. I hope those from the forum who have met me in person would agree that I'm the same person online as offline.

This times 10.  The Internet isn't anonymous.  A lot of people assume it is.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Posts on any website can become political fodder.

IIRC, the posts of congressional candidate Anne Sumers (D, NJ-05) became an issue in 2002 when she tried passing herself off as a moderate Republican-turned-Democrat; her posts on "Liberal Oasis" showed her to be much further in the deep end of the Dem party for her moderate Republican district's comfort.

[JSojourner]

Anyone else suspect that he left the forum due to his wish to get involved in local politics and was worried about anything on the forum getting out? I rememeber him mentioning a rival appeared to read the forum

He is focusing on Christmas.  As we all should be.

[Eraserhead]

WHO CARES?

[Frodo]

Posts on any website can become political fodder. This can be especially so if the poster was adopting an unusual persona. More frequently, a poster uses the apparent anonymity of the web to take more strident positions than they would in a face-to-face meeting.

What I see most frequently are individual statements that reflect a different set of views from a particular time in one's life. This happens just as much in the other forms of communication, and politicians have to defend these past actions or statements (think "I never inhaled.") I try to be prepared to defend my actions in front of any group should they be called up in a totally unrelated group. Over 50 years this happened more than once already, though interestingly so far not between the Atlas and local politics.

The best policy is to treat the web as any other encounter with other people. So, use the same type of language and same ideas that you would in those encounters, and you should be fine in any future endeavor. That includes politics, business, or personal affairs. I hope those from the forum who have met me in person would agree that I'm the same person online as offline.

So if I have political ambitions, I'm f**cked, in other words...   

[minionofmidas]

I find it funny that not only somebody found this forum but that they also would use it to attack their opponents.

If I ran for office, I wouldn't care. But then again, I'm not Phil

Even Phil isn't exactly Mike Assad, who probably did the right thing leaving the forum after all the sh!t he was up to at times, and then being elected a member of his local School Board.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

It is possible. I know that if I was going to get involved in local politics, I'd ditch this place immediatley.

Well, at least he's not as dumb as Robert Stark, who's posting dumb thing there which are avaviable to anyone

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

And Stark is actually running for office. Not that he stands a chane.