Respectfully, no one on this forum has a "right" to know anything about my personal life. What I choose to share is up to me, and me alone. Demanding otherwise from me is a breach of the most sacred contract between management and member: Anonymity.
This demand also breaches the historic first rule at TBR: Shoot the message, not the messenger. I post opinions that are an alternative to the majority of posters and the forum's management and "advisory" committee --- and present ample support for them with links and video, commonly referred to as "receipts".
Whatever I do for a living, or if I am fantastically independently wealthy and don't work at all, should have no bearing on a substantive discussion of the information I present. I am stunned and offended that you would demand this type of information from me.
@mystery-ak
@Cyber Liberty
If this forum granted total anonymity to everybody who posted here, it'd be overloaded with trolls and spam.
The fact is, you have a username. You have an identity. You also have an IP address that, if the administrators wanted to, they could trace.
I get the desire for privacy in certain aspects of one's life. I don't use my first name on this forum—at least the public side of it—for that reason.
But any message board out there operates on the premise of good faith: that generally, people who post on there are who they say they are, and any ulterior motives for posting are publicly known. If someone is getting paid to post propaganda, and denying/obfuscating that fact, that's bad faith. I can assure you that I'm in no way important enough to have any political candidates or organizations paying me to carry their water, not that I could do that with a clear conscience.
If you're a paid operative or a Russian-backed agent of chaos, please say so. Your statement of "opinions that are an alternative to the majority of posters" is remarkably similar to the approach taken by RT, Russia's former propaganda arm here in America, so that would be consistent. Yet I can only speculate.
If you don't want to reveal your funding/sources, that's your decision—but don't complain when we assume the worst.
