Gaudere, I hear and obey. But I would humbly submit that for two years the OP has been harassing a large proportion of the people on this board.
I came back into this thread because I resented the OP’s “Silence, little girl!” but now I’m really out. Sorry.
I think that if anything Alde annoys a large portion of the people on the board, but as of yet I’ve not seen him harass anybody.
You, on the other hand, have a great big hardon for him.
A great big girl-hardon?
Now that is disturbing.
Seriously, if you can’t stand to read his posts, there are remedies.
Oh, is that what you’ve been doing - trying to reform him?
And you apparently want him to be grateful for this - which other posters see as stalking and harrassment??
And, after being told hundreds of times, you persist with this fantasy that he is a Belgian?
I wonder what percentage of your posts this year concern Aldebaran or his country of origin? Quite a large one, I would imagine - having read many of them.
Can I suggest a New Year’s resolution - that you put your serpent’s teeth away and forget about this obsession of yours - which, believe me, is extremely tedious. Surely you have other topics to write about.
So in your opinion, if I say that something I read makes me feel as… I am actually doing what I feel.
Tell me then how can I be doing what I described I feel when I am typing a post on a message board?
Tell me also: why is your perceived “threatening violence” against US soldiers who are with their very presence in a country they have no right to be, in your view so violent?
All while their very presence in said country,their violence inside that country
is constantly threatening my friends there,
has killed a little girl I knew there,
brings in life-danger my friends constantly
is nothing to you, as in: Nothing I should see as threatening anyone that is dear to me. Advocating invasions of other nations in my region is also nothing I can see as threatening to me. As long as US soldiers are doing the invasions and committing the vioence, everything is “cool” to you.
Can you give me an example of a warning to a member who advocated violence against Muslims? Remember: Iraqis are Muslims.
Correction: You see it as “jerkish” when it comes to be aimed at US’ers.
Not at all when it comes to Iraqis or Muslims in general = including me. You didn’t see anything wrong with threads advocating/defending/proposing violence to Muslims in Islamic nations. Proof: The thread itself where I posted my comment.
There are many like them.
I shall give you notice every time I see an other member “venting” against Muslims or Islamic nations. Maybe I should go take a look at GD right now?
Really? Where is the difference? Do you think Iraqis throw tomatoes at the US soldiers when they join the resistence?
So? I have much more US soldiers in my region who have guns and who did shoot at friends I have there and who did kill a little girl I know there. There is nothing "presumably to that.
It happened. I still happens.
Face reality. Welcome to the real world of what the US soldiers actually do.
Now be surprised:
I don’t think it is “cool” at all to have US soldiers occupying Iraq, shooting at my friends in Iraq, having killed the little girl of one of their friends.
I also don’t find it “cool” to see US soldiers posting on this message board that they are ready to go join the others to occupy the nation of my firends, to shoot at them, to kill their children.
I don’t find it “cool” to read members giving their support to this army, calling for the killing of all Iraqis who dare to resist the invaders, cheering with every Iraqi that gets killed by US soldiers because he “dares” to fight them inside his very own country where the US solderis are the invaders = the ENEMY of the Iraqis who fight them etc… etc…
You on the other hand seem to think all that is quite “cool” and you indicate that I get banned if I don’t agree with your perception of “coolness”.
Our perception of “coolness” shows a considerable difference in facing the reality “as is”.
Salaam. A
I honestly wonder how the reaction would have been if I had posted that I wanted to go to Iraq to side with the US soldiers to help them shoot at Iraqis resisting the occupation.
How many do you think would have fallen over me with applaud and congratulations because I finally became convinced of the “good side” of this criminal war?
Salaam. A
Weird how that is pretty much applicable to Aldebaran.
SA: Thank you kindly ~bows humbly~
Dropzone: I didn’t mean to suggest that he hadn’t been working at his English, but to be honest I lurked for only about six months before I registered, and I don’t really recall many, if any, of Alde’s earlier posts.
Well you seem to follow the ME threads, did you notice this actually happening?
ps to Eva Luna, I should not have left the impression that the mods at that time allowed wonton war-mongering. They definately counselled a reigning in of tempers and I have no complaints of their work during that trying time. It’s just I don’t remember them complaining about people talking about joining up (themselves or relatives)and fighting whatever war got started next.
Is that war-mongering that comes in a flat Chinese noodle?
Anyway, IMO, the warning was bollocks. Aldebaran didn’t actually threaten anyone; nor did he say anything that hasn’t been said directed towards non-US people, that didn’t get a warning. Maybe he did it in the wrong forum. But that’s the only fault.
Also, Mehitabel, you’re freaking me out now. You really need to have a word with yourself.
Yeah, but twenty minutes after the war you want to invade another country.
That is the heart of the matter, isn’t it? Shouldn’t we then report posts which support war? It is intellectually and emotionally dishonest to pretend that making war is not, at its core, wishing death on someone.
(aside to Aldebaran)
From my point-of-view, for you to say that about “women in general” is the equivalent of someone calling Arabs “towel heads.” Besides, I hope that you will extend to me the courtesy of not blaming her tiresome behavior on her womanhood. It is more likely related to eating too much endive, living in mauve-colored air, or going to jazz clubs.
See, just to make this explicit…
Verdict? Ban worthy if repeated. (I take it that’s what the ‘jerk’ warning is for)
Verdict? Can’t be bothered, no warning.
Stating a desire to join the insurgency? Jerkish.
Stating a desire to commit genocide against the entire ME? Fine n’ dandy.
There do not exist enough rolleyes in heaven and earth.
True as far as it goes, Finn, but you’re overlooking the unreality of hyperbole. If I say “Some mornings I feel like consigning the entire human race straight into the flames of Hellfire!” that lacks the impact of “I’m going to bust my mail carrier in the face with a hammer, break his front teeth out”, that is shocking because plausible. Elements of reality make the difference.
I am quite certain Clot is talking shit, because I know he has no capacity to do such a thing, nor, God willing, will he ever. But any damn fool can go and pick up a weapon, point it and pull that little lever-like thingy.
But there is also an element of prejudice, that one must freely admit. Those soldiers are my people, right or wrong. The “insurgent” might have every right to be there, might have every right to take up arms against his enemy. I may agree intellectually with his every point of contention. But the soldier is my people, and justice has nothing to do with it. If he seeks to hurt or kill one my own, he is my enemy as well.
War is madness, justice, morality, humanity turn to dust. Another of the ten thousand reasons why such horror is to be avoided at almost any price.
I too am worried about the lack of mod attention to the vile posts by clothahump and Martin Hyde. Especially in this thread. Not that their behavior gives Alde a free pass to advocate violence. It does, however, raise the issue if he in fact has a point when complaining about double standards.
I know that guadere is held in high regard by many posters, but I would very much like to see her explain this.
I repudiate this completely. Moral courage calls on you to set aside ties of kinship and support the party with the better claim to justice.
The tragedy is when both parties have sound claims yet one must lose. That tragedy is compounded when lives are the consideration. Then we have the case that there must be undeserved loss of life. Where should that loss fall? On the party with the weaker claim to justice. In Iraq, on US soldiers.
Luc: Good points, however, as I understand it, the injunction against wishing death has nothing to do with one’s capability of executing such a plan.
Personally I see no substantial difference between “I feel like killing all the black people I can.” And “I feel like nuking the entire ME.”
YMMV.
The Gaspode: Agreed and seconded.
Or maybe the mods didn’t see it. Did you report it?
Entirely true. It makes no difference. I might prefer if it were otherwise, but it isn’t.
Am I even allowed to answer this?
It seems rather jerkish to me to be talking about who you’ve been reporting to the mods…
Good question, I dunno.
When I see questionable stuff that passes without a warning, my first thought is that they just didn’t see it, rather than assuming any bias on their part.