Not worth the effort.
nvm
There’s a real old thread in which he’s pitted for hoping that a lot of American soldiers die in Iraq, but yeah, his sociopathic disregard for other people seems like it’d get a lot more pitting than it gets.
He doesn’t care about me; I don’t care about him. Not gonna expend emotional energy on a sociopath. That’d be like letting him live rent free in my head.
I’ve been charging him rent. He pays up as promptly as he pays the rest of his bills.
Eviction for failure to pay rent may be in order. Reference your state laws and local ordinances for proper notice requirements. Consider consulting an attorney as well.
Exactly. He posts things that can bring outrage, but not enough to waste time on it.
He’s like the uncle who gets drunk at family get-togethers and makes things uncomfortable, but doesn’t go over the line into being so bad you need an intervention and/or ban him from future gatherings.
Nobody really wants him there, but it’s not worth the drama and effort (yet).
Hey, I created the bitch thread for non-trolls for a reason! Create the Dinsdale Pit thread or use it.
Thanks for bringing up Persimmon. I had actually avoided that most recent thread as it struck me as a non-great debate, it’s going to be intensely personal depending on the family in question, and felt that it was bait of one form or another. And the pattern of a poster creating threads but never responding (to that thread, or in their case, ANY thread) is all sorts of red flags to me.
Eh, everyone else is right, I’m not quite outraged enough to bother.
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[State vs mattynw](https://boards.straightdope.com /t/state-vs-mattynw/992058)
I’m going to take State and give the points. With regard to how long the thread will stay open, I’ll go over 8 1/2 hours, but only because it’s late and the mods are probably asleep.
I really liked this,
where did these people get the power to invade and ruin peoples lives
preceded by this,
were both in recovery and have been clean for over 18 months
Yeah, it’s a real stumper.
On the off chance that OP is genuine, a lot of the replies are downright shitty, and incredibly ignorant.
It does seem like an odd initial post on a chat site.
Sure does. Which is why I tend to reserve comment. But that includes not dunking on someone who purports to be recovering from substance use by stigmatizing them for their past usage—even if I’m not sure they’re genuine. It’s shitty, not only to the poster on the off chance they are genuine, but also to any readers who might be dealing with such issues.
Also, family separation… ain’t so great.
The one point in that I think it’s valid to call the poster up on was the idea that he should be pursuing revenge against the guy who “turned them in”. That’s a very bad idea if you’re trying to convince the state you should keep custody of your children.
No idea if they’re genuine or not though - we’ve had plenty of folks suddenly appear and post sob stories right off the bat that turned out to be bullshit.
That’s true enough. But much of the commentary so far is very much in the vein of stigmatizing recovery from substance use. As if there is no recovery, as if it’s a label you must carry around you forever to define you. Really shitty.
No, I agree with you on that. Unfortunately recovery may still require a period in which the children are cared for elsewhere while they sort themselves out, depending on how bad things are at the moment.
The flip side is that we only have one side of the story, and it’s not a side that makes me convinced they’re in the right. If their wife’s ex reported their conduct falsely, I suspect they would have said it was a false report; instead they want to “retaliate” on the ex for “calling in the first place.” That makes me think there’s information we’re not getting.
I low-key worry that we’re going to be put in a position of talking someone unstable out of doing something destructive and/or illegal. Which is why I’m avoiding that thread.