02-14-2017, 02:48 PM
(02-10-2017, 07:45 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: > Look, I am not emotionally invested in anything that happens on
> this board, and when I start to become so, I leave for an extended
> period of time. I don't hold grudges, and I am here because I
> genuinely want to discuss certain issues that I can't in real life
> outside friends/family, not all of whom read as widely as I do.
> So, provided someone, say, refrains from repeatedly implying that
> I am a liar and/or a moron, I am happy to be (reasonably) civil.
> I got out of the Army almost seven years ago, and at that time I,
> barring possibly law enforcement officials, lost my legal
> obligations to respond politely to "Hey, Fuckface"-type comments
> from my elders.
Well, thanks for that description. Since I'm committed to writing
about Generational Dynamics every day, I don't have the
option to leave, so I have to stay and fight it out every time.
I was perhaps unfair in accusing you of using the "bait and mock"
technique and calling you a troll, but in my own defense
I did tell you the reasons why, and I accepted your explanation
and apologized.
As you know, I get attacked by a lot of people. Last year I was a
special target of paid Russian trolls, though they seem to be backing
off now, since they aren't getting anywhere with me. But I get
attacked from all angles. Here is a sample list of things that I've
been accused of: I'm a neocon, I'm a Communist, I'm a Fascist, I'm a
libtard, I only read the liberal media, I only read the conservative
media, Soros is paying me, the cia is paying me, the pentagon is
paying me, I'm a Russian troll, I'm a liberal trojan horse sent to
destroy conservatism from within, I'm not even a man, I'm uneducated,
I'm naive, I'm stupid, I've never actually been to Azerbaijan, I've
been coasting entirely off the history I learned in middle school, I'm
fake news, I'm a pathetic propagandist, I'm irrational, I'm tabloid
garbage, I'm a mentally unhinged writer, I'm a lunatic, etc., etc.,
etc., etc. So I've developed an arsenal of techniques for responding
to attacks. Lately I've been trying the "whatever" technique, which
may work better than simply calling someone an idiot, which really
only works about half the time, and so isn't particularly effective.
I haven't been called a Fuckface, but the day is still young.
By the way, my father loved the Encyclopædia Britannica, and we
always had it around.
