Right-Wing Assholes

[glatt]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Like I said, if it is not directed at you stay out of it. If you make a nasty comment expect one back. Pretty simple.

How is pointing out comments you have made equal to making a nasty comment?

I have noticed that when logic and reason don't support your arguments you switch tactics and take a more aggressive approach to keep your side of the debate going. You're basically compensating for a weak position. Then if logic and reason are on your side again you switch back to them. The violins are a perfect example. Happy Monkey was slaughtering you and you posted like half a dozen violin smileys to make up for your weak point.

Since the topic of this thread is about you being an asshole, I can understand a certain amount of defensiveness on your part, and I'm not going to hold your "butt out" comments against you. But this is a public forum. Anybody can respond to anything you say here if they want to. If you want a private conversation with someone, use the private messaging feature of the site.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by glatt

But this is a public forum. Anybody can respond to anything you say here if they want to. If you want a private conversation with someone, use the private messaging feature of the site.

So then why the thread at all? If anyone can say whatever they want then why the big whine??? really.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

So then why the thread at all? If anyone can say whatever they want then why the big whine??? really.

You would have to ask Flint that. But I can say that the Cellar is a community unlike any other place I've seen on the internet. We all hold it dear, and I think this is Flint's way of policing the place. It's ironic, as others pointed out, because we all had to school Flint when he first arrived here. But he's come around (maybe we even met him half way.)

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by glatt

You would have to ask Flint that. But I can say that the Cellar is a community unlike any other place I've seen on the internet. We all hold it dear, and I think this is Flint's way of policing the place. It's ironic, as others pointed out, because we all had to school Flint when he first arrived here. But he's come around (maybe we even met him half way.)

Great so meet me half way. So Flint was a dick when he got here and now he is not? But he wants to spank my Happy Monkey? So he is your policeman?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Great so meet me half way.

I already did.

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

So Flint was a dick when he got here and now he is not?

He was never a dick, just a bit full of himself.

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

But he wants to spank my Happy Monkey?

I'm not touching that. I won't touch the monkey.

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

So he is your policeman?

As much as anyone is.

[TheMercenary]

Yep me too, just posting like others. So if you don't agree with my take on things I am an asshole? Hmmmmmm.... Ok. I accept that. Issue over.

[glatt]

From the Hall of Fame thread:

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Well thanks for pointing that out. That is real important to me.

This is a post made by an asshole.

Just saying...

[Flint]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

.... So if you don't agree with my take on things I am an asshole? Hmmmmmm.... Ok. I accept that. Issue over.

No, if you act like an asshole, people will think you're an asshole. Your #1) behavior detracts from your #2) take on things. It's two separate issues. I've explained this already, there shouldn't be any more confusion. Issue over? No, issue ignored. Again.

I didn't intend this to be a "call-out thread" - I actually am curious about this observed phenomenon: why do people of any political leaning let their abusive personalities besmirch the name of what they claim to stand for? You could say the same thing about people of any political stripe. I just happen to have observed, on this and many other boards, that there is a particular flavor of rude asshole that seems to reside in a certain political zone. You just happen to be the latest example in a long line of remarkably similar posters I've seen blow through here.

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

... Make up crap about me, who I am, what I think from some minor postings on a public forum is out of line.

I don't claim to know anything about you other than what I've seen you post here, and of that, I've probably seen only a small bit. Maybe I'm making a glaring mischaracterization of your output, but I don't think it will hurt your feelings. If it does, I apologize.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Great so meet me half way. So Flint was a dick when he got here and now he is not?

No, he's still a dick. I think that he used enough foreplay that we're not as dry as when he first started.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Flint

@Bruce: You can't say something about something without calling it something; or else it doesn't mean anything.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You can't call somebody an asshole without saying a whatever-label asshole?
You can't have an opinion about the war, education, health care, etc, without claiming it to be a whatever-label position?
I disagree.

Yeah, I also disagree with that. So who are we disagreeing with, your imaginary friend? Hi, Bruce's friend! We all disagree with you.

I guess Flint is just imaginary asshole.
We should be so lucky.

[elSicomoro]

Originally Posted by wolf

No, he's still a dick. I think that he used enough foreplay that we're not as dry as when he first started.

No...he got some K-Y from me.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by glatt

Happy Monkey was slaughtering you and you posted like half a dozen violin smileys to make up for your weak point.

Slaughtering because you support his point? hardly.