The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by MicShazam

I hope that was a joke...

If not: Rude as ****.

That's a weird line to draw of all the rude as **** things people say on here.

[MicShazam]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

That's a weird line to draw of all the rude as **** things people say on here.

Not really. You're suggesting something pretty nasty about Merit's character. There's rude banter and then there's uncalled for personal attacks. If I was a mod, I'd draw a line there.

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by MicShazam

Not really. You're suggesting something pretty nasty about Merit's character. There's rude banter and then there's uncalled for personal attacks. If I was a mod, I'd draw a line there.

So it's okay for him to hate jews but it's not okay for me to express that he comes off as the type that wants to kill jews?

Again, weird line.

I also live in a country with rising incidents of domestic terrorism coming from people that speak with the same exact rhetoric he speaks with. Maybe you wouldn't understand.

[MicShazam]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

So it's okay for him to hate jews but it's not okay for me to express that he comes off as the type that wants to kill jews?

Again, weird line.

I also live in a country with rising incidents of domestic terrorism coming from people that speak with the same exact rhetoric he speaks with. Maybe you wouldn't understand.

Is Merit personally attacking anyone on the forum? No.
Does he have some weird opinions about things that in his mind are for a good cause? Yes.

I disagree with Merit, and I think he's misguided in some of his views. But that's no excuse to get nasty about things.
Why don't you kick the ball instead of the player and zoom in on the opinions instead of making it personal?

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by MicShazam

Is Merit personally attacking anyone on the forum? No.
Does he have some weird opinions about things that in his mind are for a good cause? Yes.

I disagree with Merit, and I think he's misguided in some of his views. But that's no excuse to get nasty about things.
Why don't you kick the ball instead of the player and zoom in on the opinions instead of making it personal?

So let's ignore that he's literally told majority of the forum that they're inferior to him. Literally telling elph that he can't have children because nature deems his genes as useless. Or when he went to every other thread personally attacking Frown any time he could.

Yeah, plenty of mass shooters, especially of the variety I'm comparing him to, think they do it for a good cause.

Weird opinions? Like thinking that women are useless beyond sex?

Plenty of us have attacked his views and he's always made it personal. You're really cherry picking here. Or selective memory.

[MicShazam]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

So let's ignore that he's literally told majority of the forum that they're inferior to him. Literally telling elph that he can't have children because nature deems his genes as useless. Or when he went to every other thread personally attacking Frown any time he could.

Yeah, plenty of mass shooters, especially of the variety I'm comparing him to, think they do it for a good cause.

Weird opinions? Like thinking that women are useless beyond sex?

Plenty of us have attacked his views and he's always made it personal. You're really cherry picking here. Or selective memory.

I'm not gonna bother digging into every one of those scenarios that you see as good cases against Merit, but I don't think we'd agree. I don't see him dishing out any worse than he's taking. If anything, Merit's one of the better behaved members, despite the tinfoil rants.

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by MicShazam

I'm not gonna bother digging into every one of those scenarios that you see as good cases against Merit, but I don't think we'd agree. I don't see him dishing out any worse than he's taking. If anything, Merit's one of the better behaved members, despite the tinfoil rants.

And the misogyny, bigotry, personal insults anytime somebody challenges his views. The fact that you dismiss it as just tinfoil rants is unnerving.

I'll make sure to highlight every trash thing he says for you from now on.


I'll also make sure to highlight every ****ty personal attack that gets made for you so you can have a fair balance of shaming people rather than cherry picking.

Honestly, I thought the comment was a very censored one. I had a whole paragraph to justify it but left it off because I felt it was a bit too personal and out of the blue.

[MicShazam]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

And the misogyny, bigotry, personal insults anytime somebody challenges his views. The fact that you dismiss it as just tinfoil rants is unnerving.

I'll make sure to highlight every trash thing he says for you from now on.


I'll also make sure to highlight every ****ty personal attack that gets made for you so you can have a fair balance of shaming people rather than cherry picking.

Honestly, I thought the comment was a very censored one. I had a whole paragraph to justify it but left it off because I felt it was a bit too personal and out of the blue.

It's not like you're the first MB member to get too personal for my tastes. But I do think accusing someone of being a latent shooter is pretty damn mean.

We clearly disagree on how to handle disagreements with the worldviews of other people. Warnings would be handed out liberallly at times if I was a mod. Which, thankfully for me and everyone else, I'm not.

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by MicShazam

It's not like you're the first MB member to get too personal for my tastes. But I do think accusing someone of being a latent shooter is pretty damn mean.

We clearly disagree on how to handle disagreements with the worldviews of other people. Warnings would be handed out liberallly at times if I was a mod. Which, thankfully for me and everyone else, I'm not.

I didn't call him a latent shooter, really. I said that I believe he's thought about it. I clearly added the "despite intent" thing because people plan and fantasize about things they don't plan on actually doing. Like I said, I censored it. In context, it was meant more about relaying that it's how he comes off to me just based on his forum posts in response to him claiming his blog was innocent.

I agree, I don't like how personal this forum gets or how disagreements get handled. I'm not the type to jump to insults over disagreements, though.

Edit: If HE really feels a type of way about it I'll apologize.

[OccultHawk]

I like merit but he mos def has a mass shooter vibe about him.