My issue is that there are numerous individuals in this thread who antagonize and troll; however, my post highlighting hypocrisy related to gun violence discussion gets a lengthy response from Meth threatening to revoke my access.
So you’ve been antagonizing and trolling users on here for almost an entire decade, and the
real injustice is finally holding you accountable for it?
Those who’ve reacted to your provocations with rule violations have indeed been penalized - as many have attested in the preceding posts. Sometimes this happens after you’ve seen a post, sometimes posts that haven’t been reported get lost in the shuffle, but the rules have indeed been enforced.
You’ve been shown the benefit of the doubt for over eight years. That is the antithesis of “over-policing.”
What you seem to want is a double standard - to throw rocks, hide your hands, and then tug at the mods’ pant legs and have them act as your sword and shield when people take your bait and react with vicious slurs like “shut up.”
I’m putting you on notice that those days are over.
You allowed me to be taunted and antagonized over supporting President Trump during one election cycle, even after I admitted the mistake.
Even if you took longer than usual breaks from concern trolling Democrats in 2024 when Trump was peddling racist conspiracy theories and platforming watermelon “jokes” at his rallies, that still leaves 2016 and 2020.
You’ve not truly admitted the mistake. Rather than making common cause with others over issues you claim to care about, and discussing those issues in good faith, you clearly intend to spend the foreseeable future needling people who actually care enough about, say, the death penalty to oppose the people who support it.
You really only have one move, and it’s tone policing. All the “yikes,” “so much for the tolerant left” stuff seizes on anecdotal incidents to prove that the liberals aren’t actually moral after all, so why not just be selfish? You’ve been using this thread as a coping mechanism to rationalize your own choices by pushing people who hold your former values far enough that one of them will treat you with hostility so you can feign offense and pretend they’re the
real bullies and bigots, that they forsook you as opposed to the inverse. It’s the same self-pitying one act play every time.
We’ve had eight years of this. What happens? You dangle your little rage bait, try to “own the libs,” and then someone inevitably asks you to explain why you’ve opposed - and constantly grief those who support - the party that’s been working to abolish the death penalty while yourself supporting and making excuses for the guy who publicly called for the Exonerated Five to be put to death and
presided over more federal executions than the previous ten presidents combined. And then? Either you flee, having successfully “triggered” someone who cares about the death penalty, as you claim to, or you try to lure them out into the weeds and distract/annoy them while hoping they’ll take a swing at you so a moderator can step in and punish them on your behalf.
This is not acting in good faith.
You’re an arsonist complaining about smoke inhalation.
If this were about preventing you from expressing actual views, you wouldn’t have been given three whole election cycles to do so before your speech was “chilled.”
It’s about trolling.
Your excuse is that other people sometimes do it. They do, but not with anywhere near your consistency and frequency. When warned or asked to stop, they stop. If not, they are removed. You just get “busy” with “work” and wait for the next opportunity to find an example of a liberal being less than virtuous so you can repeat this process all over again.
Every regular here can see what you’re doing. It’s not sophisticated. It’s not clever. It’s not subtle.
It’s not going to continue.
