EPTOn December 03 2025 06:49 mindjames wrote:
I'll spell it out for you because you don't seem to get it.
Every single time I've come here to try and argue my actual positions, I received a barrage of unbelievably bad faith, snide and smug responses, sometimes replying with a single line, to posts that I put a lot of thought and effort into; often completely mischaracterizing what I said or reducing it to absurdity, and very often attempting to scold me with performative moral indignation.
So I decided to follow the example of this website's mods: never answer any question directly, never engage substantively, always make the worst assumptions about the other guy's position, and always make sarcastic jokes.
By calling out my posts today as low quality you are LITERALLY MAKING MY POINT.
Just look at what happens when literally 1 more person deliberately acts like this. The whole board becomes smug one-liners. You guys all participated in this, I didn't have to do much at all.
To be clear, I'm happy to engage with people like Cuddly, Ryzel, or anyone who don't seem as ridiculously partisan as Nebuchad or as abhorrently bad faith as Kwark. I promise to actually do that once they either stop defending Kwark's behavior or agree to push for better discourse in this thread, hopefully moderated by a responsible adult.
Until that happens, you can't point at my posts and go "hey that's unproductive" when I'm literally mirroring people whose behavior you haven't called out before, perhaps because their zingers were to your liking.
I'll spell it out for you because you don't seem to get it.
Every single time I've come here to try and argue my actual positions, I received a barrage of unbelievably bad faith, snide and smug responses, sometimes replying with a single line, to posts that I put a lot of thought and effort into; often completely mischaracterizing what I said or reducing it to absurdity, and very often attempting to scold me with performative moral indignation.
So I decided to follow the example of this website's mods: never answer any question directly, never engage substantively, always make the worst assumptions about the other guy's position, and always make sarcastic jokes.
By calling out my posts today as low quality you are LITERALLY MAKING MY POINT.
Just look at what happens when literally 1 more person deliberately acts like this. The whole board becomes smug one-liners. You guys all participated in this, I didn't have to do much at all.
To be clear, I'm happy to engage with people like Cuddly, Ryzel, or anyone who don't seem as ridiculously partisan as Nebuchad or as abhorrently bad faith as Kwark. I promise to actually do that once they either stop defending Kwark's behavior or agree to push for better discourse in this thread, hopefully moderated by a responsible adult.
Until that happens, you can't point at my posts and go "hey that's unproductive" when I'm literally mirroring people whose behavior you haven't called out before, perhaps because their zingers were to your liking.
With all due respect, I think your playbook is a little dated there. It was always stupid to call me too partisan to discuss, because I could always have sided with Hamas and I never did, so I was always less partisan than the people who sided with Israel and defended their ethnic cleansing for 1+ year. But especially today that the public opinion is shifting toward my opinion and away from yours, I don't think you're really ready. The other day on Bluesky I was making an unrelated comment to someone, I said "I don't think you're really in favor of this, cause if you were you would also be in favor of bombing Israel today and I know you're not", and I got targeted for this by like 50+ people who yelled at me that actually, they were in favor of that.
So, you know, maybe prepare for the world where I'm a moderate. It might be coming.
