From this thread. I rarely start threads in the Pit, and I don’t think I’ve ever started one aimed at another Doper, but I feel you crossed the line here. So… bot3, you are an asshole, and stupid to boot.
First and foremost, your snip in post #8 is completely uncalled for. Way to step on the head of a person already down on the ground, hero! :rolleyes:
Secondly, if you think that the (presumably white, older) rich people will abandon the US and that the inevitable result will be a republican victory in the next election… well, either one of these assumptions is pretty way out there, but putting these two together is beyond asinine.
I get it; you’re disappointed that your man lost. Suck it up, go vent about it yourself in proper venues, go get roaring drunk… whatever floats you boat. Do not come in here, choose a thread where a vulnerable young person is doing their own venting about their own personal plight, and shit all over it.
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I apologize for the lack of cussing and vitriol. I think the egregious nature of bot3’s behavior is sufficient to carry the outrage all on it’s own.
bot3’s posts in the SurrenderDorothy thread were an amazing combination of stupidity and unkindness. He/she/it apparently can’t read or comprehend very well, and it also lacks the faintest hint of humaneness. The bot part of its name fits. Scum would be a better name. Is that taken?
One of the things these boards are about is helping people - sometimes with nagging questions, sometimes with fighting boredom, sometimes with finding resources for a bad situation. People like bot3 are the opposite of helping; the idea that when people help each other spontaneously there is less need for “handouts” and “socialism” than when we treat each other as rivals fighting for a limited amount of resources would probably cause a shower or machine oil all over the carpeting…
Life isn’t a zero-sum game, but bot3 is the kind of lifeform that lowers the average.
You can pit all you want, it doesn’t change the fact that Dorthy may or MAY NOT be a victim. Yes I question her validity. If it’s true then I sympathize with her and wish I could help. But I suspect, (note “suspect” as opposed to know) that she could do more than complain on the Internet. After the fact and after she gets it together then by all means tell us her story. Although not perfect there are many agency’s that can help her. She did not say she availed herself to those options.
The truth hurts, huh?
As far as my man winning or losing, is inconsequential. Like I said to me is matters little.
BTW…You didn’t see any vulgar language from me did you.? Or is that the only way to make yourself heard?
She was not obligated to pass your litmus test for being entitled to some empathy.
FTR, words can be vulgar in how they’re used. Your whole post was vulgar based on a slew of unsupported assumptions.
And until we know, the smart thing to do is posit that she wants things given to her, and then go ahead and complain about how the election turned out for you.
She’s living on the street, but your guy lost the election. :rolleyes:
Exactly. That was really uncalled for. That was certainly a situation where since you couldn’t say something nice or supportive, then you shouldn’t have said anything at all.
I honestly have no idea what you’re going on about. And you are probably drawing the wrong conclusions from it, anyway…
Well, she’s been talking about her situation lately in other threads as well, so if she’s not a “legitimate” victim there’s been a lot of build-up for this.
Maybe, maybe not, at any rate whether or not she is getting help elsewhere does not change the fact that if it helps her spirit to share with the forum, we shouldn’t kick her in the head for it.
Sometimes. I gather you know this from personal experience?
Check out some other pittings… this was actually remarkably (relatively) vulgarity-free
Don’t be a jerk, bot3. Also, don’t be that guy. You know that guy. He can’t talk about anything – ANYTHING – without making it Obama’s fault. (Or Bush’s fault. Or going back further, Clinton’s fault.) The weather? Obama’s fault. Shitty boss? Obama’s fault. Bad selection of movies at the theater this weekend? Totally Obama’s fault. Homeless person not taking their homelessness seriously enough to avoid all Internet posting? OH MY GOD, SO OBAMA’S FAULT.
That guy is boring and off-topic and very quickly makes people think he’s a giant ass and not worth talking to. That guy sucks.
What truth? The “truth” in your guesses and assumptions? You’re just talking out your butt. It makes you look stupid, sure, but what it really does is make you look small, unkind, and heartless. A kind word costs you nothing, yet you choose to kick a person when she’s down- just based on the possibility that she’s lying (a possibility you have no evidence for).
When someone falls, I try to help them up. If it turns out they just faked the fall for sympathy, then I’ve lost very little. But kicking them when they’re down, just because they might be faking? What kind of person are you?
Yup, I reported him/her for threadshitting in the original thread (wish I’d thrown in “being a jerk” too), and I see the lovely Ellen Cherry has mod’d **bot3 **now.
To be fair, I completely understand where you are coming from Bot3. However, little information has been given as to her actual circumstances and I think your reaction was a bit premature and unecessarily harsh(again only because of the fact that we are unaware of her exact circumstance). Where I come from, we aren’t opposed to giving people the shirts off our backs to those who need it. I also think it would be a simple courtesy to give her the benefit of the doubt before jumping the gun. Would you say that is fair?
