[QUOTE=Wesley Clark]
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=344916&highlight=muslims
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In favor of whom, or against whom, is that OP supposed to be biased? For the benefit of those of us who are not aware of any anti-muslim themes in Wesley Clark’s posting history. Are we mad because he’s suggesting that al Qaeda supporters might start blaming the US for car bombings, or because he’s suggesting that the US might be bombing people’ cars and blaming it on al Qaeda?
[QUOTE=Oakminster]
Yup, I’ll cough up the cash before the guest period expires. Only real difficulty there is that my wallet lives in another room of the house, and I hafta remember to grab it so I can register.
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That’s easy: the next time you are waiting for the hamsters to load a post, get up and grab the wallet. (You ought to have a couple of opportunities a day.)
[QUOTE=Finagle]
You seem to have a problem with tenses.
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The cat that could drive a car?
Skippy the Amazing Flying Cheese Log may be twee, but he’s no asshole. Or is it he has no asshole? Shit, this thread is a real confuser.
[QUOTE=tomndebb]
That’s easy: the next time you are waiting for the hamsters to load a post, get up and grab the wallet. (You ought to have a couple of opportunities a day.)
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Pssst…tomndebb…the trick is to convince him to stay. 
[QUOTE=NoClueBoy]
The cat that could drive a car?
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Haven’t heard a Toonces the driving cat reference in awhile.
As for the OP: WHAT?!
Each of us comes to this board with a clean slate. It is by the things we subsequently write on that slate that we are judged.
In other words, write continually like an asshole and it’s a pretty fair bet that you are an asshole.
Of course, there’s nothing to prevent you working to correct that impression by the flair, wit and solid good sense of subsequent postings.
Look upon it as a challenge.
(Your present OP is not, however, a good start.)
I have nothing whatsoever against Wesley Clark.
This is, in fact, a perfectly lovely sig line.
[QUOTE=Otto]
The only beef I have with you is that when you ask a question in a thread title you don’t end it with a question mark. I find that way more irritating than I probably should, but goddammit, use question marks!
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Why should he.
Anyway… martyrs are tiresome, especially ones that insist on building their own stake and handing out matchbooks. Grow up, Wes.
Huh? How the fuck did I get involved in this?
You were there. WC cast a wiiiide net.
Include me in the “how is this even slightly anti-Muslim” camp about the thread that SkipMagic closed. I am not aware of any particularly anti-Muslim bias that you ever showed. The only thing wrong with the thread that I can see is that it probably should have been in GD.
But if asking a loaded question is reason to get your thread locked, open threads are going to be few and far between in GD or the Pit.
FTR, I have nothing against Wesley Clark. Especially not since you posted -
which is pretty much spot on.
There is a certain percentage of Dopers who are eager to join a pile-on if they smell blood in the water. Myself included, unfortunately. Some people are rarely assholes, some are assholes some of the time, and some are assholes almost every chance they get.
Although your list of the ones who you believe dislike you doesn’t include many of the “assholes almost all the time” group as I would see it. It doesn’t mean I am right and you are wrong, of course.
FWIW, you might consider a hiatus from the boards, as Lord Ashtar recommends. It helped in my case, I think. And, as Oakminster says, there is always a certain level of sniping from the resident assholes. You really do just have to ignore it.
And frankly, this thread is a good place to start. It’s going to turn into a pile-on. And you are going to have to deal with it. Because I doubt if the mods are going to cut you much slack.
My $.02 worth.
Regards,
Shodan
I think you need a blog Wes.
In all seriousness, WC log off and get some help. That OP ain’t right.
Or possibly the discipline to resist the urge to post drunk.
I’m not trying to “rip you to shreds,” but if your self esteem is already pretty low (which it seems to be), it’s not a specially good idea to post when you’re drunk and angry. Everything looks like an attack, but you opened yourself up to one. SkipMagic hardly needs my defense, but that was fairly mild by mod standards. Christ, you’re lucky Lynn and Manhattan aren’t still modding.
The OP you’re posting about is practically unparsable to me but I definitely don’t see anything anti-Muslim in it.
Wes, please don’t quit because of a few (or 50) assholes. You’re one of my favorite posters.
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
Why should he.
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Because it’s standard written English to denote questions by ending them with a question mark.
Um…whoosh.
dre2xl, no one is telling WC to stop posting. Just to take a step back. I agree that Clothahump took a cheap shot, but c’mon. It’s Clothahump. They’re the only shots he can afford. It isn’t as if anyone even responded to that thread, and if WC’s martyr complex had any basis in truth, plenty of people would’ve lined up to take potshots. We’ve all been insulted here at one time or another. You learn to grow a thicker skin. Pity parties don’t have a very high success rate in the Pit.
[QUOTE=Maureen]
Um…whoosh.
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It’s not a whoosh if I knew he was trying to whoosh and it just wasn’t funny.
[QUOTE=Wesley Clark]
I am becoming something of an asshole, so I want to try to pit this issue in a conflict resolution mode. Wish me luck. This is going to work soooooo well.
Last fall I was very unpopular on this board because I was so openly abornmal and for all the bullshit about tolerance we have people are still apes. People were taking unprovoked shots at me all of the time both because of how weird I am/was and because other people were doing it. Last fall I couldn’t ask a factual question on GQ without someone making an unprovoked attack at least once a week. Skip was one of those people. I posted a thread that came across as racist because I worded it poorly. I meant to ask are the fanatical Islamists blaming the US for these attacks in this thread the same way they blamed the Jews for 9/11, and worded it poorly. My mistake. Rather than address the issue like an adult, he insulted me, made assumptions and asked me to email him as if I needed his forgiveness. My mistake for wording it poorly but considering how the US was blamed for upholding dictatorships all over the mideast, planting dictators all over the mideast, Israel was blamed for gulf war 1 & 2 and 9/11 I thought it was a legitimate question on whether this was happening. I should’ve worded it better.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=344916&highlight=muslims
In response to what I felt was cheap shot (he could’ve handled it better), Clothahump also took a cheap shot at me.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=344943&highlight=wesley
I have never insulted either of them before they took those shots at me. I find that pretty repugnant. I can understand insulting people who insult you first though, but not insulting people because it is popular, or because they are weird. I feel both of you are pretty low people and I wish you had the courage to insult people face to face instead. And clothahump, that means insulting people who are your equal in power. Don’t insult people as a cop, insult people who are bigger, smarter and tougher than you. Don’t go out and insult some kid in handcuffs, go out and insult someone who is a better martial artist than you are. Next time either of you or the 50+ people on this board who act like assholes feel the urge, why not go outside and insult strangers instead? Insult people who can fight back and hold you accountable, not people online or people who are unpopular. This method is very cowardly of you. I do not harass people unless I feel harassed first and I’d appreciate the same level of decency. For all Excalibres bullshit towards me I still do not harass gay people myself. I don’t harass gay people and I’d appreciate it if the gay people here wouldn’t harass those who have had to deal with a mental illness.
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Wesley, you were being a jerk, which you just admitted, and you got called on it. There was no insult whatsoever in what I posted. It was fact. Deal with it.