Ok... Zoe - Nurb - we're killing traffic on uncensored. Ig doesn't like that. Conflict and disagreement is GOOD for Citadels - for conversation. I believe that, I stand by that. We should be able to have civil debate - where you think I am an idiot, and I feel the same way about you - but we can have rational discourse about our disagreement without anyone feeling - I dunno... lesser. 

I came here tonight feeling that way, and I still do. I know you feel IG leans my way, and maybe he does - but he still wants you to voice your opinion and feel confident you won't be... censored. That you'll be uncensored. Thus the name of the BBS, right? As long as we're respectful, he'll let us both run on. I haven't been respectful, in my mind - and that damages the discourse. So, I apologize. I'm brutal and ruthless and... good with words in a way that shuts down my dissenters. I don't want to do that. You have your points, they're not without merit. Continue to argue with me - don't feel too passionate about that. I bet we have 1000 things more in common than the few very important things we disagree about. And I understand - I use sophist logic to win public debates in unethical ways sometimes. Go ahead and call me on that, when I do that. When I am clever but not necessarily correct - usually for a cheap win. 

I love Citadel - and I love that you are the opposition to my voice. We should argue and shred one another in every room, towards understanding some sort of compromise between what I believe and what you believe - or just to have the fight and tell the people we love, "I had this horrible argument with this total asshole today and he/she was wrong, but I couldn't convince them because..." 

When we stop arguing like this, that is when CITADEL dies. I saw it happen when we were all dial-up BBSes. Here is what I think we can all agree on... 

This is better than Facebook and X and whatever other web based social media sites we also visit. We can't let this die. It is our obligation to keep this active, hell - to invite OTHER people here if we're not "winning" the battle - not to win the war of words - but to make the discourse of Citadel grow. 

Can we at least get on the same page on that? Have a whiskey, log on, argue with me - hate me - and understand MAYBE I'm just being a devil's advocate - arguing with you like parliamentary debate. Just chasing the academic win - even if I don't 100% agree with the point I am trying to prove. 

Even if I'm lying - if I totally believe that we should expel all illegal aliens, that ICE should shoot all dissenters in the face with non-lethal rounds, that killing someone who didn't REALLY try to run you over is justified... You should still double down and argue with me if you disagree. The more I am wrong, in your eyes, the MORE you should NOT back down. 

That is what I think - anyhow. That is what I came here to say. Instead, I got caught up in doing what we do. And then, I was suddenly back in the lobby. I don't want what. I don't want 3 goto(s) to the lobby. I want to struggle to make a full circle. Citadel is more important than what I think I believe. 


I hope you feel the same. Let's fight. 

For Citadelphia.