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Quote from: notquitethere on March 14, 2023, 04:14:00 pm

So long as posts exactly 10 times a day he'll be within the rules.

I'm happy to send 4mask again, he is the only player here who willingly plays International Fast Style forum mafia.

TEN POSTS A DAY???

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that.

+1

I would but I have a growing child. I struggle enough at even our (relatively) glacial pace with that.

I mean… the US is just the UK writ large. Most of it is towns dotted about in the middle of nigh-endless tracts of farmland, some major cities here and there, and the population concentrated in urban areas near the coast.

You’ll probably find a historical society in towns if you look hard enough. I lived in a town whose claim to fame was inventing the ice cream sundae.

Procrastination is a teenager’s life though

They’re scared of the government.

The main football pundit on the BBC also tweeted out agains the Tory government and that caused the Tories to demand be get sacked ‘cause he’s meant to be impartial, even though that rule really only applies to news and current affairs employees, so they suspended him.

This resulted in every single one of his fellow pundits saying they wouldn’t appear on the weekend highlights show he is the main presenter of, along with all the commentators. This meant the highlights show only showed lasted 20 minutes with no commentary or analysis. I think this also happened with the Scottish and Welsh highlights, even though he has nothing to do with them.

I hope this turns out badly for the government rather than the BBC, but I get my UK news from the BBC, so I don’t know.

What harsh words did I use? I’ve made three posts in relation to this, the first included blasphemy of that upset you, while pointing out you were being passive-aggressive, which you agreed with; the second was me responding to you using “age-old arguments” as though that makes you right (my interpretation, rightly or wrongly) and pointing out you lack context in your arguments; and the third pointing out to you where you lack context, made at your behest.

This in contrast to you sarcastically responding to Max while completely ignoring any context within the political structure of America and Russia, an example of which I provided and you again ignored in favour of parroting your own position.

Consequently, what you do is bothersome not because of any “argument” or position you take, but as a result of the implicit moral- and intellectual-superiority laced throughout your posts, belied by assumptions you make, like that I’m American (“your” president Obama) - an assumption disproved in literally every post I’ve ever made in the forum until I change my profile, I might add, and my nationality has exactly zero to do with anything regardless - which is one of a litany of examples showing your prejudice toward American progressives, and your willful, and dare I say it even proud ignorance.

Further to that point, you edited out and did not answer a question I asked regarding specific context within American and Russian politics: how LGBTQ folks are meant to expect reasonable, respectful discourse from those that are attempting to legislate them out of, or even criminalize their existence - or in other words, being cancelled, as per the topic of discussion. This is an example that shows you have no interest in engaging in dialogue, your only interest lies in dictating your own moral high ground to people, and insulting them for having the audacity to tell you that outside the vacuum inside your own head, it fails utterly to apply in the real world.

Alternatively, have a little shot of your own medicine:

Oh muh gosh jipehog is just such a shiny in example of morality and human decency we should be hanging off their e’ry word!

We must suckle at the teat of his wisdom, curl up at his feet and have our ears filled with the knowledge that will turn the plebeians from a horde of slavering, unthinking beasts into fine upstanding citizens!

Yes, his diatribes have no practical application to anything, collapsing under the weight of reality, and, yes, he is willfully ignorant of how things actually work, but if we repeat his teachings in excruciating detail oft and loudly enough, If we brush past our lack of knowledge with sarcastic take downs and comparisons of our poor, uneducated audience with the people they hate frequently enough, maybe, just maybe, one day… the world will be as our lord and master dictates!

Or maybe y’all should take a sec and listen to others, you might learn something. “The fool thinks he knows everything, the wise many knows he knows nothing” as an empty, unoriginal thought to end on.

Quote from: hector13 on March 11, 2023, 01:18:53 pm

The problem with age old arguments is they lack context

What were my argument and how do they lack context?

Quote from: MaxTheFox on March 11, 2023, 04:51:18 am

Quote from: jipehog on March 10, 2023, 11:31:11 pm

In the context of what we are talking, that like saying that vigilantism is good because it dealt with insert example that affected you personally.

Yes. Yes it is. The authorities are doing jack shit so it's the only way unfortunately. It is too late to solve anything diplomatically in America or Russia.

I am glad. Engaging with people can take a lot of time, its much better to have certainty in the superiority of your beliefs and conviction these should be impressed onto others. Better 100 innocent persons should suffer witch hunts online than that one guilty person that annoy us should go free. And did you see the storming of the Capitol, how the hell these sneaky bastards managed to get ahead of us! Look at Putin, now here is person who understand how to solve things.

You are arguing for civil discourse here, in an uncivil way.

You ignore that in America and Russia the state(s in America) are legislating that LGBTQ people are basically not allowed to exist and that if parents allow their kids to actually identify and make progress toward physically manifesting a trans identity, the kids will be taken away and the parents arrested for child abuse.

In what capacity can someone from an LGBTQ group open discussion with a group that thinks they don’t/shouldn’t exist and expect any sort of respect?

Jesus Christ jipehog, the “I’m a morally superior being” schtick wears thin enough without you being a passive aggressive troll on top of it.

It reminds me of the adage “If you owe the bank $100 you have a problem; if you owe the bank $100 million the bank has a problem.”

It’s a sobering reminder that if you deposit money in a bank, you are effectively the bank’s creditor.  This collapse happened because the bank wasn’t able to pay back its creditors.

It’s also a reminder that high returns are indeed in exchange for higher risk…

I believe it’s “if you owe the bank $100 it’s your problem, if you owe the bank $100 million, it’s the bank’s problem.”

But you need to say it like Sean Bean.