/townhall/ - Townhall

So, I was speaking with Moony and he has given me permission to made this thread.

As you all might have noticed by now, /Townhall/ has been officially closed and will not be returning. However, there is a concern that I brought up with Moony: the inevitable bleed through of politics within this community.

Ponychan.co/ef/ is our Everfree Forest board. It's purpose was suppose to serve as a place for politics as well as serve as a random board, but is leaning more towards the former. Think of Ponychan's /chat/ as to your /pony/, and /ef/ as Ponyville's /townhall/.

To get to the point, I wanted to extend a hand and offer a place for the former Public Servants of /Townhall/ a place to continue their discussions. The rules would essentially be the same, just more lenient: Discussion is allowed, whether I agree with you or not. (Or anyone else for that matter.) While I would encourage people to be civil and not throw mindless insults, things do happen and you're not going to be banned over it. If you want to make posts shitting on Trump all day, be my guest. If you want to tell me to go die in a fire because I disagree with you, go right on ahead.

While we've had our disagreements in the past, I feel it is important for people to talk about these things.

It isn't exactly in the best condition at the moment. I am going to be cleaning it up and culling old threads that don't really fit anywhere else, but, it is something.

As I am fairly certain this board was supposed to be deleted over a year ago, I am simply going to lock all existing threads and delete every thread that gets made on this board.  Eventually we will figure out how to delete boards.  I ask that in the interim no one post here.

With recent events in mind, is it even worth debating with people who want you destroyed, who will gleefully call for your death, who will clap when you are shot dead right in front of your family?

It's not as though this is a recent thing, of course. It's been happening for a while. But for the longest time, excuses have been made. A desire to 'deescalate', to keep some modicum of decorum and compassion, even in spite of such obvious cruelty.
That clearly hasn't worked.
Things've only escalated.

How do you hold a dialogue with people who despise you so much they will not even condemn open murder on those guilty of nothing save speech alone?
Is the only solution to treat those who view you with hatred, regard you as their enemies, and long for your destruction, to hold the same view in return?

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment

Thanks for helping make this possible, assholes.

Folks act like Charlie Kirk is a genius and somehow forget he just does things like this

My grandmother (or aunt or I don't even remember how we're related) posted a thing about Oliver North predicting Osama Bin Laden publicly, if only people would listen, but wouldn't you know it he was denied this opportunity thanks to Al Gore.  Which had a bunch of obvious red flags, but I wasn't doing anything so I looked it up.  FactCheck had a post about it.  The Senator he was talking to was not Al Gore, the terrorist he was talking about was not Osama, North himself explained this in 2001, which is when the post was from, which makes sense because I have no idea why people would still be talking about Osama or Al Gore.

And as always, I think briefly about commenting.  Being like "Hey, I'm not sure that's right."  But what would be the point?  To change their mind about Al Gore?  To 'cause them to doubt media sources even more than they already do because all of these posts are about how you can't trust the media?  Would they even believe me?  Should they believe me?  All I did was fucking Google it to some other huge media website, is that really a trustworthy source?

And realistically do either of us have any real knowledge here?  This happened in 1987, so I wasn't even alive.  There's a fair chance she wasn't watching every bit of coverage of the Iran Contra affair, much less the actual hearing.  Even if they did they probably legitimately wouldn't remember the name of the terrorist by now (Abu Nidal, who I imagine none of us have heard of, still, also he's probably dead by now).  It's possible neither of us had even heard about anyone actually involved, ever, nor will we again.  The only knowledge either of us have is not just secondhand, but like third or fourthhand, and the impact of this knowledge is just as far removed, as is our ability to impact the situation (which, as a reminder, was 38 years ago).

And yet despite all this, we're expected to engage with and discuss this because that is human nature.  For the safety of the tribe, we have to communicate all of our knowledge about how to keep each other safe, which includes arguing about which of us are right.  This is an innate biological drive for the majority of humanity.  It's what drives a significant amount of engagement on all of the biggest sites, and also some of the smallest sites, like this very board.  And because I am here, posting this on this board, I would liPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Is a hotdog a sandwich?

Should there be greater disclosure requirements for restaurant practices known to produce toxic aldehydes, such as keeping high-PUFA deep-frying oil at high temperatures for prolonged times?  E.g., should restaurants be required to provide written notice (such as on menus) of the type of oil used and their practices to limit toxic peroxidation products (such as how long the oil may be kept above 300°F or max TPC before oil is discarded)?

"All my niggas nazis. Nigga heil hitler"

I keep hearing this phrase over and over again. Is this the new right winged movement?

So, RFK Jr announced the ambitious project to map and study the causes of the great autism epidemic this year.

While nobody knows yet what the outcome will be, what do you expect the results will be like?

> We found some brain chemistry stuff that nobody probably understands properly, but it may help us a bit more to identify what causes autism in the future.
> We found and identified the exact cause of autism and will work on a vaccine / medication that will cure patients.
> It's vaccines all along. Wakefield was right and we're gonna stop the mandates and the development on new dangerous vaccines, while we look to mitigate the damage done to society by years of malpractise.
> Autism can be fixed by a strict military disciopline, instead of feeding our kids pills and giving them unbridled access to therapists and disability checks. People with autism looking to be cured can report at the nearby wellness therapy session to work and live under military discipline.
> Autism in the most cases is a perpetuated scam made up by big pharma. Except for the extreme cases, the average person on the ASD spectrum is willingly or unwillingly defrauding or system. Handouts to support people on ASD financially, or programs to adapt to people on ASD are now scrapped indefinitely.

The september deadline is getting closer.

Apparently acting appropriately towards threats of violence is bad :(

Why can't I understand that people wanting to kill me is wrong? Why can't i talk about that?

Suppose (1) you were in charge of the FDA and (2) you could get any relevant legislation enacted.  If you want to decrease the cost of regulatory compliance (for bringing a new drug to market) by a factor of 10, how would you do so?

Why is is that majority black owned regions have the most crime?

Here we go.

this guy is hot af!