That would be the reverse of what the forum offers - which is to block the posts of those you do not wish to read.
Avoiding posts you do not wish to read is called âmutingâ, not blocking. Blocking is restricting the people who can read your posts. The thing about people who take offence easily is they ostentatiously announce they are going to mute the offending poster - but they donât actually do that. On the contrary, they follow them meticulously and complain about them to the moderators. So their aim is not to avoid being offended, it is to suppress views with which they do not agree.
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I think this thread has pretty much run itâs course so no need for any additional software to please the easily offended.
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Iâm offended by your assumption about what I need.
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I bow to your superior knowledge of all things internet-y and forum-y
Suffice to say that the forum software does not implement the function in the manner that you crave.
Why not head over to X which provides the block function in a fashion which seems closer to your desires.
Or Truth Social where I suspect you will find views which align with your own and not even need a block function.
You donât like our views and you donât even like the platform. What are you doing here exactly?
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8 hours and countingâŚ
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Exercising my right to free speech. You?
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Im not sure you actually have that right on a private forum using private software. Well, I am sure, you donât. But thatâs besides the point I guess.
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An interesting GENERAL observation after less than a month (gawdamighty, it seem like eons) since the US election: the trumpers were upset, just angry as all hell, before the election. About everything. And now, they are: exactly the same. Grumpy before their guy won, grumpier now after their guy won because they have ? nothing left to get enraged about? I honestly donât get it. Sore losers in 2020, sore winners in 2024.
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Wonder if theyâll get enraged about the basic inflation that will probably follow from Trumpâs proposed isolationism.
Mid-term consequences?
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But a point that I suspect he well knows
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And even more isolated if Lyndsey Graham gets his way and they start throwing sanctions around at the arrest of the 2 Middle Eastern war criminals. For goodnessâ sake he has even been threatening Canada, they tried that before in '76 and maybe later in '12 but the Maple Leaf still flutters in the dawnâs early light. To coin a phrase. 
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Other echo chambers are available.
I believe yes. Itâll be interesting for me, as I will then be ensconced in France for 18 months. I donât think I can vote for anything apart from federal elections as an expat. So that means US Congress, Senate, and POTUS/VP. Coming from Texas, my vote will do nothing, but I still will vote. I have only missed one election (a primary, when I was in grad school) since I became eligible to vote at 18.
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Yes you are lucky, in a way (downside is you have to pay taxes to USA wherever you live), many of us Brits here have not been allowed to vote for years in our homeland, until this year when it was restored. And sadly that included the Brexit vote. The most important vote in my lifetime. 
I do not know why if you decide to expatriate and live your life elsewhere one would think to be entitled to have a vote in a country in which one does not live? Surely more important to have a vote in the country in which one is resident?
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I think it depends upon your state. Coming from FL I was able to vote in my local election and state as well as Federal. Of course, it was just shoveling shit against the tide as my father used to sayâŚ
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It would be nice to have a vote in France, but Iâm not a citizen here. I do pay plenty of taxes to the US (and left a lot of $ for unused benefits there), so I think I have a right o vote there. I may end up there, but I hope not.
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Many British people who are tax resident in France still have property or pensions and/or pay tax in the UK, conversely many of us also pay income tax, tax dâhabitation etc in France, but donât have the right to vote here.
Another Brexit âbenefitââŚ