Gosh Monty, you were really verbose in this thread for quite a bit. Heck you managed to sneak in four posts over two days, including one where you accused me of lying.
Amazingly, however, since I proved that I wasn’t lying and you were simply dead wrong, you haven’t posted a thing. No apology, no “perhaps I was hasty”, no nothing.
What happened, Monty? Your ISP go out of business? Bulldozer run over your telephone line? House burn down?
Or are you just a pissant little fuck who doesn’t have the balls to acknowledge that you screwed up? You’re the shithead who made this personal - you falsely accused me of misrepresenting a citation, but now that you’ve been proven wrong, you don’t have the courage to say “my bad”?!!
So where are you? You were cocky as all fuck in the thread. You were the Man - you knew your shit, and you were taking on all comers.
Y’know, this board’s not big enough for both of us, Monty. Threads like this make me glad the board is fast on a Friday morning, as the click-to-load time is mercifully fast, during which I’m wondering “what the hell did I do to piss off Sua?!?!?!”
I disagree, especially in this case. If it had been a :
poster one: A is true.
Poster two: I don’t agree, I think B is true.
Poster one: Here’s 14 cites proving A is true and we don’t hear from poster two again, well, that I’d understand.
But in this case, Monty was questioning Sua not only on a basis of fact (was this or wasn’t this against the law) and in Sua’s Field IRL, but kept at it, making claims that Sua had intentionally quoted only selected portions of things to support his statement and so on.
That, IMHO, raises the bar. To falsely accuse some one of selective quoting, and being wrong about something that’s in his field of expertise, after a demonstration that neither point holds substance, such a situation calls for a retraction.
If he’s too embarassed to do so, then I’d suggest that he either:
refrain from suggesting that other posters are being decietful in GD,
After SuaSponte laid out his arguments, he specifically told monty “all is forgiven”…
Especially since, as you noted SuaSponte, monty had his faulty information from a misleading website (I mean, who expects the State Department to have their info wrong?) (Okay, don’t answer that), I think calling him out in the Pit for this one little encounter is a little overboard.
If I believed the wrong website and thus posted faulty information, got torn apart as thoroughly as monty was by SuaSponte in that thread, and then read that I was forgiven in my error? I’d probably just as soon keep my trap shut. I mean, SuaSponte basically said it all anyway, the only purpose to be served by a personal ‘retraction’ is to go further and call myself an asshole. Implying that SuaSponte was deliberately misquoting relevant evidence is a little more serious, but still. Is it really that big a deal?
(BTW, Montfort, I thought the same thing when I saw the thread title. I thought, ‘Two most eminently reasonable posters in a scuffle? This I gotta see…’)
