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Expat91364
  7/22/2019 10:46 EST

While I understand it is almost impossible to refrain from posting about the current political situation in the US and elsewhere, perhaps we all can be cognizant of not highjacking threads.

It is one thing to avoid political threads when you know it is one but quite another when you have been following a thread and it turns into a political rant.

So maybe some blog decorum is in order here? If you want to give your opinion on something, either find a post/thread on that topic or create a new one?

Oh and I am sure that I am equally guilty of having done that in the past.

So now who wants to start a “Dump on Trump” Post ? Or a “Trump: President for Life!” Thread? Of course as it relates to being expats here in UY so at least it has something to do with this blog.

Even a Facebook is cracking down on this kind of thing...

mjferriesmcgrew
  7/22/2019 11:09 EST

Actually, in this case, it does have a direct connection. The people , who are not here yet in Uruguay, basically said that they were interested in relocating to a non political place. I feel like we are doing them a service by making it known that the expats here, if they are from the U.S. , are very opinionated about politics, as are the locals.

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Expat91364
  7/22/2019 11:26 EST

I don’t argue that. I am simply saying that if it is a posting about medical in UY don’t make it about the Democrats call for a one payer system in the US as a political discussion of the US systems or how Trump wants to prevent whomever from getting covered.

If you want to rant about how ACÁ is great, good, bad or terrible do it here bit in a separate posting. Or thread.

Vortice
  7/22/2019 17:49 EST

It is great when threads stay near topic, but discussions of any type are prone to digression whether cyber or verbal. This is a tendency of human communication. A noble goal and unlikely to happen.

Wanderlustspirit
  7/23/2019 18:26 EST

Expat 91634 - I completely agree. It gets old & just reinforces how egocentric many North Americans can be.

Mjferriesmcgrew - I disagree that all expats are political. Some of us realize that both “bought” & “paid” by corporations & 1%ers are equally responsible for the destruction of the U.S.

I for one am not interested in every thread becoming a political diatribe on the state of affairs in U.S. I was guilty of this back in 2015 but realize it must be very off-putting to people of other nationalities that truly do not care about the U.S. politics.

I agree if people want to read a political thread, make it as a separate thread but all the rants do not help people that are actually trying to get information about living in Uruguay.

Once the U.S. loses world reserve currency status, even more people will be less interested in hearing about U.S. politics.

cinparadise
  9/12/2019 14:12 EST

Wanderlustspirit,

You wrote:

"Once the U.S. loses world reserve currency status, even more people will be less interested in hearing about U.S. politics."

Now that's rich! Like that will ever happen!

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