Firestarter

PS. Thanks for your advocacy, IDRM. I may not give a fuck if I get banned, but I give more than a fuck about you. PPS. Yeah, I know how you're going to read that.

1 & 2: thank you. 3: um... I'm going with another thank you. 4: only when I'm drunk. And I haven't had the President on speed-dial since I resigned from my post over the illegal immigration thing.

As someone once said (I forget the name), "Hillary lies. Obama is a lie."

...something just doesn't feel right when we're getting along. You socialist union lapdog!

I accept. No hard feelings towards you. However. I'd like my warning removed and split evenly between VX and 909. Here's my reasoning. VX said: This is simply false. As I stated in the thread in question, my initial offhanded insult of Annie was not intended to elicit a response. It was, as I said, a "throwaway snark." 909 himself had told me that it was no secret and Annie himself had referred to it in dozens of posts. Subsequently, every single post I made in that thread was solely in reaction to other people's criticisms of me. What other posters "reported" to the mods were reactive posts. Trolling, by definition, is proactive. Conclusion: VX abused his mod powers. If you won't de-mod him, you should at least warn him. Next, 909 said: Again, false. I didn't ask to be banned. I said that if VX really felt I was trolling (a bannable offense) then he should have the balls to ban me. That is a question that goes directly to VX's judgement. It is not a request of any kind. This is nonsense. I've been called a "dyke" and a "cunt" numerous times even after you and your friends took over the board. No one has ever been warned for it. And there's a case to be made that a person's gender is even more basic a characteristic than her sexuality; therefore, if referring to someone's sexuality in contemptuous terms is considered offensive, misogynistic remarks must be considered even more offensive. See what you're getting into? Anyway, I wouldn't want anyone to be punished for insulting me on any grounds, but that's a separate discussion. The point is that 909 has not followed this policy in the past. This policy was only followed with regard to me. It has always been ignored whenever anyone insulted me. Or Leena. This is called hypocrisy. Final point. 909 said: I "tested" no one and I asked no one to ban me. I simply asked VX to follow the rules as he understand them. It is obvious that his understanding is lacking. Furthermore, if my reinstatement is upheld, please be aware that I shall continue to "run all over" any goddamn person I feel like running over. That includes any fucking mod who acts like a retard or is just plain wrong. Mods are entitled to no more respect than posters. You are, essentially, janitors. You're here to serve. Nothing more and nothing less. Your opinion means no more than mine. At the Pit we understand this and no one gets bent out of shape over petty squabbles. Here, you always have. From HTQ's "I AM GOD!" schtick to VX's latest spitefulness to 909's attempt to justify it, this board has always had that problem. Hell, even Dames lost his cool once in a while, as did Jingus, though they never (to my knowledge) actually did anything wrong. You want to "comply" with something, 909? Warn yourself.

You might have a case if the oil market actually was regulated by supply and demand laws and not a cartel of Mohammedan states. As it is, you don't.

The exact same thing could be said about Florida, but you mentioned it in the same breath as Ohio.

Agreed. But those rights did exist a LONG time before the Emancipation Proclamation. That's the only point I was making. Thomas Sowell says otherwise. Agreed, again. For example, I wouldn't support teaching "intelligent design" alongside evolution. When I said that education shouldn't be ideologically tilted, I didn't mean that we always had to present both sides of an argument - I mean, to carry that to an extreme, you might end up having to make people read Streicher's nauseating pornography about the inferiority of Jews - but that curricula shouldn't be demagogic. Which, as I think you'll admit, in the overwhelming majority of our higher ed institutions, it currently is. I have a real problem with the final clause of your last sentence, although the first clause does ameliorate it to an extent. I agree with your first sentence in #3.

You forgot Poland Michigan.

No. If you truly believe everything you've just said, ban me, motherfucker. Do it. Right fucking now. Do it. Or just admit that you have no balls.

Well. He did. No. The reason almost no one gets banned is that we don't fucking censor opinions. And you shitheads do. The worst you can say about the Pit is that it's the technical side seems to be fucking incompetent. On the other hand, here, I can say that at least one of the mods is fucking retarded. That would be you, slugger.

Thank you, Jobber.

Yes. No. Never had one in the first place. I fucking hate you people. You are NOT a girl. You are a mutilated male. Live with it.

PM sent to VX, for the record:

Agreed. And they were instituted by... the Democratic Party. Sit and spin.

1. Caucuses are inherently undemocratic and 2. Primary voters are at best within a 1-2% margin.

Sorry, but it was a private concern between me and IDRM. There was no need to discuss it with you. I apologize for my tone.

Nothing more to see here, kids. IDRM and I sorted it out privately. Go find something else to gawk at.

I was not aware that I was speaking to you. Yes.

Concerning what? If you are going to "demand less vagueness" then it behooves you to be less vague and more specific yourself.

Whatever. A deviant.

A pity.

Anyway.

Try not to jump in while your betters are speaking, boy.

Then there is nothing more to discuss. I have offered you an avenue for reconciliation, which you have rejected. So be it.