JackRiddler » Sun Jan 26, 2014 12:32 am wrote:Searcher08 » Sat Jan 25, 2014 7:08 pm wrote:Nordic » Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:51 pm wrote:I say we allow Jack Riddler to be the one and only moderator on this board, since that's how it usually works out anyway.
He's tough and he's fair:
JackRiddler » 25 Jan 2014 22:54 wrote: Whereas I invite you to do yourself a favor and kill
yourself tonight.
Wow. How charming. That is the sort of comment that damages the standing of the originator more than the subject.
I'm sure it's very important to spread this comment of mine as an orphan around various threads, but if
you do, unlike Nordic (who is excused because he presumably only discovered yesterday that a keyboard can be operated with fingers and not just your forehead), I'd expect
you, at least, to link back to the original quote in its context. Being a man of such integrity and all.
Here is where the exchange began:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=37502&start=60#p532387I will defend myself against lying fuckers and purveyors of spook mythology, even if they are obvious fools, like slimmouse, and even if they gin themselves up into a mob, as you are now doing. I will be as mean and nasty as I please in reply to the lies and nastiness of lying fuckers. Tough shit. I will waste my time on morons if I please and I regret nothing. I will be banned standing up, if need be. If you don't like it, fuck you too.
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As you provided, I had a look at that link for context.
I disagree with your characterisation. In that thread you are being a jerk. It is a sign of respect for someone to try to connect with the person as well as the argument. You appear to be offering slim the gift of a bucket of bile, which he turns down. I think it was really uncalled for and out of line.
If you start treating people as total fucking morons frankly just because you *really* disagree with how they see things, that is leaving discussion and going into self-righteous power tripping.
If you have a problem about me saying that, I don't mind. I need to say it.
You know that I regard you as one of the best, most insightful writers here.
I think the Edmonds / Greenwald subject is extremely difficult, partly because the realm of many of the actors could better be labelled LieSpace, partly ,because of it shearing apart what was once, for many people, simultaneous pictures and Edmonds and Greenwald both being heroic in their own ways. And also, from my point of view, a situation where new information seems to demand a complete revision of what to think / believe to Worldview A then more comes in demanding a revision to a different Worldview B, where both A and B appear mutually contradictory.
Late August last year was the last post on R.I. from Jeff Wells.
My communications to him in that time went unanswered.
Maybe it's time for all of us to part company. I cant imagine that each of us, given how we could be spending the limited resources of our time and attention (on a planet that seems pretty short of both at the moment) would continue to choose to be spending it like this.