Let me be real clear: this message board does NOT need conservatives

[BigT]

@Heffalump_and_Roo

@BigT

This is a dishonest style of debate, and you should stop

No, it is not. You saying so doesn’t make it so. It is just my posting my opinion of your words. You should stop telling me how to post.

@BigT

You need to read what people actually say.

But it’s clear what your belief is. You told him he was sneering and then said that’s “shit” someone else does. You’ve made your opinion about sneering super clear. So while you’re challenging his belief, you’re also adding your own on top of it.

I’ve read your post VERY carefully. There are posts of yours that I’ve read over a dozen times and tried to respond in the past. The fact that the logic is so tangled and you tried to deconstruct everything to the point that it doesn’t have any meaning doesn’t mean I didn’t read it.

You’ve now accused me of something I didn’t do. I read your post super carefully. I’ll give you a chance to apologize to me for accusing me of something I didn’t do.

I’m not posting about whether we need the Pit in this thread. I’m responding to your post about people sneering. I don’t have a dog in the fight about whether the Dope should have a Pit, so again, you’ve accused me of having a “hobby horse” when it’s not true. I’ll give you a chance to apologize for the second time for accusing me of something I didn’t do.

You say that I have no right to demand that you stop engaging in a disingenuous way. Yet then you did that exact same thing. You argued I was being disingenuous, and said I needed to apologize.

You claim you read my post. You claim to read a lot of my posts. Yet you claim to know that I hold a position that I obviously do not.

I have sneered at people quite often in argument in the Pit. I did so in this very thread to octopus, for example. I also continue to participate in arguments where people have sneered. So obviously I do not think that sneering makes argument impossible.

You accused me of hypocrisy. So you clearly do not think such accusations are bad. Yet you decided to blast me for accusing Sam of hypocrisy.

You say I can’t tell you how to post, but you were telling me that I shouldn’t have posted in a particular thread, and that I shouldn’t have said something I did to you.

I have every right to tell dishonest people to stop being dishonest. I have every right to point out when you are actively degrading discussion. I have the right to point out that you were poisoning the well, because that’s the only possible way to deal with a well-poisoning. And I have every right to defend myself from those who are willing to make up shit I didn’t say in order to attack me.

I also have every right to do what I’m about to do now. It’s been building up a little while, but this nonsense is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. You provide nothing of value to this board, and only seem to want to stir up trouble these days. And you’re even willing to go after me, even after I defended you from people who treated you like shit. Turns out they were right.

You don’t care for me, and I don’t care for you, and I don’t think I will lose anything if I can’t see what you have to say anymore. Goodbye Roo. Hope it’s worth alienating everyone to argue against shit people didn’t say.

(And, no, hiding your profile will not stop me. Funny how you love to bring up posts from the past, but then try to stop people from easily being able to see what you’ve posted in the past, huh?)