RE:RE:RE:Bencro, Bluebombet6PrettyPennies - I appreciate you taking the time to explain why you think it is important to keep political posts off the board and under normal circumstances I would agree with you, But these are not normal circumstances.
I have also been reading the board since 2014, but did not create a user until 2015. Like most of us here I have also had brushes with cancer. My wife survived colon cancer. A very close family member with two small children is currently undergoing chemotherapy for stage IV esophageal cancer. It matters very much to me that Theralase is successful - and not just for treating NMIBC. I live in hope that every person with every variation of the disease can some day be relieved of their suffering.
Before the election I would have to say you were completely correct. At that time it just seemed like a left versus right thing. Conservatives versus liberals with hyperbolic accusations on each side. True, the Republican candidate seemed a particularly distasteful option, but there have been a lot of elections, with a lot of distasteful candidates. If he won the election he would probably straighten out and start acting like a normal person. But that didn't happen. His antics were not just a strategy to win the election. If only Nixon or Reagan or Bush were president you would have no argument from me. Politics should be kept off the board.
But he economy of the world is now under threat, the American Department of Justice is being politicized, American institutions of every kind are being corrupted at every level. Racism and xenophobia are exploding. The people's representives are keeping silent. They know what is going on but they are placing their own self-interest ahead of the good of the country. I don't think Trump planned any of this - he just followed what was in his own self-interest every step of the way, and given the current climate in the country it has led to this.
A new kind of fascism is being born. Not the 1930's Germany kind of fascism, but a new American variety, based on callousness and provincialism and selfishness and xenophobia and indifference to the loss of freedom and the integrity of American institutions as long as material prosperity is promised.
Yes this is the Theralase board, and yes the discussion should just be about Theralase, but it is not always easy to be silent when advocates of the new order come on the board to gloat about the loss of everything good about America.
PrettyPennies wrote: Gebremrskel,
Do you read this board for information on Theralase or for the politics? I hope most of us are here for Theralase. I know I am.
I have been reading the posts on this board since 2014 when I first started to invest in Theralase. In Theralase, I found a stock where the company wants to do more than just expensively treat specific cancers forever. I know cancer research shies away from the word “cure”, but Theralase has the potential to do more and be more than the other cancer research companies I have looked at for investment.
There are a lot of people like me that read this board without ever logging in (I didn’t even create a login until a few weeks ago). Without logging in, you get the full impact of what this board had become—all you could see was political posts, and it looked like some of the best posters were either avoiding this board or buried so deep you couldn’t find them anymore.
Yes, I could log in and “ignore” the political posters, but there are a lot of very good, very smart posters who are caught up in this. While I (and other frustrated readers) could avoid some politics, we would also miss some valuable information and insights. And the bashers are definitely taking advantage of the situation, stoking the fire.
This board is worth saving. It is a valuable resource for investors and potential investors when the posters stay on topic.
Like many of the posters here, I have a personal interest in cancer research, as well as a financial one. Both of my parents died of lung cancer. I have friends and relative who have or had breast, uterine, skin, brain, leukemia, and non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.
While we cannot all agree on our political views, I think all of us (except possibly the bashers) agree on Theralase’s potential. So let’s stick with something we can agree on.