Welp. So much for that hypothesis.
I guess I’m just really bad at this sort of thing.
I just respond when people post at me. As I said–if you don’t want this thread to continue stop posting in it. But if you post at me, there’s a chance I will respond.
I find your lies amusing (especially when framed by your lashing out and flailing). So feel free to continue to lie. Not that you need my permission - liars are gonna lie, no matter what others do.
Someone remind me? Who was it that weaponized another posters MPSIMS discussion of their real life struggles with mental illness in the Pit?
Oh I want this post to be at the top of the “latest” page as long as possible. The whole board should know what a liar you are.
I’m really amazed that you were able to keep this up for so long, even 15 years after someone exposed you. Bravo.
I was going to make Delaware my fake state to avoid sales tax.
Now I’m worried about getting banned for all my insults of Donald John Trump, unindicted co-conspirator, since he’s obviously a poster on this board. Unless there’s more than one psychopathic liar in the world.
And IIRC I got warned for that, so I can’t reopen that too much–but the poster I was calling out was a truly reprehensible, horrible person, inside and out. I was entirely justified, but I do think Miller indicated he didn’t want any more of that sort of thing in the Pit.
My honest take is that people are upset they realized their efforts to build a “profile” of me wouldn’t work, i.e. they were likely trying to doxx me to begin with. I think this thread is a good example of the protection afforded people who are careful about not sharing identifiable information about themselves.
The general behavior of the people associated with this community is manifest evidence of how righteous it is to intentionally obfuscate personal details about yourself here. This is a forum of unwell people.
How do you feel about stolen valor? Do you think that people who get upset about stolen valor are irrational?
No, stolen valor is a bad thing.
ETA–I do think some of the prominent people involved in that community cross over into irrationality and bad behavior, though. There have been a few cases where one of the prominent YouTubers involved in that actually harassed elderly veterans for minor uniform mistakes, for example.
Most of us here (not all, but most) value our anonymity. We do not, however, find it necessary to create an extensively elaborate fake persona, let alone one which we can use to bolster our credentials.
Nothing you say here will ever again have any credibility. Where, for example, do you think this now leaves your claims to have been elected to a school board, and the alleged experiences that led to such disdain for teachers? Where do you think it leaves your credibility as a poster about anything at all? I wasn’t kidding about now believing that maybe you really are posting from prison. You are either a pathological liar, or a pathologically delusional paranoid. And quite possibly both.
Too late. I found you.
So, given that you’ve admitted to lying about your military service, could it be possible that we have a rational reason for thinking you’re a turd of a person? As opposed to the nonsense you claim? Seems like an obvious yes.
Why yes, if you don’t folks might use it to call you “a truly reprehensible, horrible person, inside and out.”
In other words, 
And many of you (unfortunately) could likely be doxxed.
See, this is a premise where we diverge. I don’t see any value in credibility, I post here because I am interested in topics and spirited discussion. I take a baseline view that most people lack credibility unless I can extensively verify them, and unless I’m using that person as a citation in some formal work, or doing a business transaction with them, I just don’t need to know how credible they are.
There’s a guy who posted a bunch of weird threads about an air conditioner, he may have been a troll, and I suspect it based on the manner in which he posted. But I found the thread interesting, so I participated. It isn’t actually material if that person actually has an air conditioner at all.
I think there are examples of where it can be a problem. The infamous “umkay” who posted that she was a quadriplegic, and then was outed as someone who goes from forum to forum pretending to be a quadriplegic, is someone who is actually trolling. But they also made a thread and generated a lot of attention for themselves about a manifestly fake thing, that is not at all akin to my behavior. For example, I would never say I have a disease I don’t have, or pretend to be paralyzed etc. If I was actually paralyzed, I might obscure details about how I became paralyzed, when I became paralyzed, and other things that might link to my person, but I would consider it trolling to create a thread about yourself where you present as a core point of the thread some personal detail of your life, and that detail be manufactured.
FWIW, another paraplegic we had here actually posted a lot about his accident (and originally used his real life name as his board name), and you could actually google news articles and find details about his accident and the ensuing lawsuit. I don’t know that he understood that, but it really was putting himself out there tremendously, and in a way I would not have wanted to do if I was in his shoes–so if I were in his shoes, I would have obfuscated the details.
That isn’t how I post here, so I find my behavior entirely within my moral comfort zone, particularly since there is strong justification in that I protect myself from the rampant obsessive types that populate this board.
I have said no such thing, I’ve simply said demographic information is not accurate as posted. I’ve also said I won’t elaborate beyond that, because that would just become an effort to determine what the “reality” is, and you aren’t entitled to my personal information that could be used to identify me.
Folks, I just want to emphasize that no one who was actually an O-6 would lie about going to West Point and retiring after almost 30 years (or even right at 20 years) as an O-3, because a real O-6 would know that’s basically impossible due to rules (correction, laws, passed by Congress) about how many times you can be passed over for promotion before getting the boot.
It’s a rookie mistake that a real O-6 (or honestly, even a real O-3) wouldn’t make if he was merely trying to protect his identity. Precisely because it’s the sort of obvious red flag that would draw attention from anyone with anything close to the kind of experience (within an order of magnitude) he was claiming to have.
Stolen. Fucking. Valor.
Lying about your service is the very definition of stolen valor.
Not if you’re operating behind enemy lines on an MI-5 secondment.
No–bragging about things you did not do, embellishing your career, etc–particularly for personal gain of any kind (even if just reputational “talk in a bar”) is stolen valor. Obscuring specific things that would make you easily identifiable to someone who doxxes people, in an anonymous forum where you could derive no personal benefit, and where you have made no embellishments / etc, is not stolen valor.