Speaking of jackasses in the pit,
So? I respond when targeted. If you have a problem with that take it up with those who initiate and perpetuate the jackassery here and elsewhere. If you summed up the hivemind’s activity, especially the provocation in the Pit and the buddy buddy relationship off board with moderators from here you’d see the problem isn’t those who respond to the mentally damaged folks who initiate the hostilities and their enablers.
Do you always answer with a 9 page essay?Seriously, dude, if it’s that unproductive you need to just stop replying to him.
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then Starving Artist with 89 posts, then DrDeth with 53 posts then Demon Tree with 61 posts.
I also remember this quote from last month.
I looked up the Pit threads on other posters going back two months at the time. wolfpup was in 4 ouf of 7 of them. crowmanyclouds was in all 7. Both with multiple posts, most threads in the dozens. It doesn’t say what it implies–that these two people don’t participate in pile-ons. It just says that they’re mightily pissed off by pretty much everyone who is Pit. That doesn’t really say anything about the people being Pit.
This is why when some liberals on this board tell conservatives to take a good look at themselves, I roll my eyes.
Look, I know I’m not good at expressing myself clearly. I really do try, but sometimes I just want to reply to something without putting deep thought and effort into it, just like everyone else does.
We’re not computer programs relying on exact instructions, we’re human beings trying to communicate ideas through an imperfect medium. There will always be an element of uncertainty as to meaning. I try to understand what people are actually intending to say - the idea behind the words - and that’s what I want people to do for me.
And yes, we should be more careful when saying something potentially hurtful. I did not view my general statement about the message board in that light, but I think that you did?
The link below is to something I first saw mentioned on these boards, that explains the sort of hidden rules people follow in conversation instead of making everything explicit. I thought it was pretty interesting:
Jesus, that’s sad. I’m his 4th most replied-to person, and I think of him as one of the posters who snipes at me and rarely says anything substantive. At least the ones at the top of my list are people I have attempted serious discussions with, and I’m pretty sure they were trying, too.
Of course you do.
Yes, that well-known leftist ideology, fascism.
It’s interesting that throughout the last several years you have continued to claim that the side filled with rampant authoritarianism who have:
- held populist rallies encouraging their followers to hate (and sometimes actually assault) anyone with dissenting views,
- attacked the media as “enemies of the people” and heavily promoted their own openly propagandistic organs including use of foreign agents to spread disinformation,
- undermined - and continue to undermine - democracy at all levels in America and are putting in place mechanisms to allow them to simply declare themselves the winners of elections,
- repeatedly promoted and circulated white nationalist rhetoric,
- been led by politicians right up to the President himself who have encouraged armed groups - including government employees in unmarked uniforms and known violent right-wing vigilante groups - to cause trouble in order to justify crackdowns on the left,
- conducted and continue to conduct a long-running smear campaign - and active pogrom when they have the power to enact it - against an ethnic minority (including depicting them as disease-carrying “vermin” coming over the border to undermine the country)
- tick every single one of Eco’s 14 common features of fascism, and
- produced and encouraged many, many followers who have, on repeated occasion, displayed and promoted Nazi symbolism including marching through the streets with flags with swastikas on them -
…are somehow not fascist.
But the left are “fascist” because they promote equality and democracy, and hold anti-democratic bigots to account for their words and actions. Which is somehow more oppressive than actual fascism.
Mind you, projecting the crimes and sins of the right onto the left was also a key element of fascism.
We get it. You preach the latest right-wing narrative at every opportunity, so naturally you assume that everyone else is just as disingenuous, hypocritical and dogmatic as you, much in the same way that con men think everyone is on the con, liars assume everyone else is lying, and people who complain about “SJWs” and “white knights” assume that other people are also all sociopaths only pretending to have empathy for others for personal gain.
Sure. And while we’re doing that, we can show the Democratic politicians condemning the violence from the left and the Republican politicians encouraging and defending the violence from the right. We can show law enforcement officers sent in by Trump actively attacking not just protesters (many of whom were not a threat at the time) but also targetting journalists and innocent bystanders in order to ramp up protests that had, until that point, been calming down, and we can show the White House spokesperson stating that the worse the unrest got the better it was for them. We can show Republicans lauding Kyle Rittenhouse and inviting the McCloskeys to speak at the RNC (and pardoning them for their crime).
And we can show FoxNews and those other right-wing “news” outlets repeatedly exaggerating the scale of the violence (just as you have done), deliberately conflating protesters, rioters and looters (just as you have done) and deliberately glossing over the right’s culpability in the events of the summer (just as you have done). It’s rather ironic how the same person who keeps accusing us of being a dogmatic hivemind is so dedicated to repeated the Preferred Narrative without question or deviation, even in the face of facts to the contrary.
And even as Republicans continue to defend and excuse a violent insurrection, and as right-wing terrorism continues to be the greatest domestic threat to America (as it has been for decades now), you continue to push the “But, but rioting! Looting! Burning!” narrative to distract from that.
Oh look - a conservative blaming the left for his own actions again.
octopus spends so much time denying responsibility for what he does, I hear Jamie Spears has been asking about him.
Why do you assume that an echo chamber of people arguing in good faith is a bad thing, and that the subtraction of posters who troll or spout the same old baseless, idiotic shit is a negative? Liberals didn’t change the Dope. They haven’t changed society. The SDMB, like democratic society itself, has been debased by conservatives who believe that membership to a club is more important than the debate itself, whatever that debate might be. In two words, fuck that.
Because that doesn’t appear to be remotely what you were suggesting. I mean, you started with a broad brush assertion that all Conservatives are dishonest, and essentially said the only people who count as “rational adults who live in a fact-based world” are Not Conservatives, which simply isn’t true.
I would also disagree with your assertion that “Liberals” haven’t changed society; they absolutely have. It sure as fuck isn’t people on the right pushing transgender acceptance or promoting critical race theory etc, after all.
Yeah, that’s a laughable proposition. Liberals have made massive changes to society. Many of them are very good changes. That doesn’t mean the progressive worldview is the only valid one or that everyone who disagrees with any part of their agenda is arguing in bad faith.
The more you cover your eyes and plug your ears and refuse to listen to criticism, the more you confine yourself to an echo chamber that never challenges your views, the more risk you take of losing touch with reality and doing harm unintentionally.
Spot on, on all counts.
I feel your pain, sweetheart - but you have to find another place or get over it. You’re annoying us. You lost, it hurts, it get it, but it’s time to go away now.
Fold yourself into an unspeakable aspect and vanish up into your own rectum, you boneless exudate of grotesque depravity! Flee back to the perverse void that gave form to your inchoate prevarications, you mindless globule of preanimate protoplasm, you reeking feculence of insipid puerility! Flush, flush, thou vagrant discharge! Away with you and the mephitis of nitwittedness that accompanies your presence as scales to squamata!
Stranger
You know, you could just fart in his general direction…
Oh goodness! It’s like Hermione Granger and Shakespeare had a demented child.
With the amount of abuse the left has given the English language, again Humpty Dumpty would be taken aback by the sheer audacity, using nearly meaningless words like racism, fascism, and bigotry to describe the progressive left still has more accuracy than when the left abuses them to manipulate the populace.
And really, you can’t get much stupider if you tried by equating a response to a pit post with the pit post that provoked the response.
Translation: “It’s the Left’s fault I’m blatantly misusing words!”
Do you accept responsibility for anything you do?
Funny when Trump sent a mean tweet you folks filled the forums with it. When Sleepy withdraws support from Afghanistan and women are being used as trampolines and children are being snatched away from families to be used in unspeakable ways you use your precious time and outrage making fun of poor ol’ octopus!
Go against the progressive stereotype and do something productive with your time.
…says the person who does nothing but
- parrot standard right-wing false narratives; and
- blame everyone else for his failings.
Is that what you mean by a productive use of your time?