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or, you know, keep gaslighting. it's everyone else's fault that you're behaving this way.

you figure it out, and you can write your own check, man, because you just solved the cold fusion problem of 21st century advertising. it's amazing to me that we are trying to use an advertising model that is essentially more than a century old, predates even television, in the modern era, even FOR radio, much less the goddamn internet. all the metrics are fucked and stupid, i what i think.

yeah, but maybe not "hey, we fooled him with a grown up looking 15 year old" variety, more of the "hey, you know this is a 6 year old, right" variety.

my dad used this expression all the time, telling me i didn't know shit from shinola. he was right. i still don't really know what shinola is.

we are all mandrake

it's ugly as fuck, because you can see it in his face when he gets extra dramatic, like during the kavanaugh hearing. there's a naked fear there, like the icepick in your gut fear. it's weird, because i always kind of respected graham as a southern confirmed bachelor republican. we've all known or known of a few. man of his age only sees one way to live like that, i reckon, and other people of his age accept it if its owned and done in a certain southern genteel sort of way. but he's done something, and trump has the fucking goods. originally, i really thought it was russian nra money. i still think that the nra laundered russian money to republican campaign funds through unregulated firehoses, and if it comes out, pretty much the whole party would be fucked, by implication and complicity at the very least, by treason at the most. but graham is complicit in some shit that will get him killed. this man is acting in fear of his life.

it's gaslighting 101. "you're making me do this, can't you see? it's all your fault i'm acting like this!" nobody likes a gaslighter, except other gaslighters or the abused, and even they don't like them, they're just to scared to pretend anything else. your history is well known, donkey. let's not pretend otherwise. i've taken it easy on you, because i haven't fully committed to the idea that you're a troll, so if you are, i guess congrats? but i will say, you can can only pull the "aww, shucks, yall are making me ask all these questions, why can't you answer the questions you're making me ask?" act has worn itself out, along with the "i don't support x at all, let me be clear about that, not at ALL, but check out this shady af unattributed information i'm going to quote but not link, and prove that wrong, see? yall are all haters, and you're making me take the contrary position" bullshit is just that: bullshit gaslighting. maybe you're doing it on purpose, maybe you aren't. i dunno, which is why you're still mostly around until people sick of your shit get rid of you for pulling the aforementioned acts. but if you want to act and post in good faith, i recommend that you take a three pronged approach: 1) admit you've done wrong, 2) apologize for that, and 3) don't do that shit any more.

150+ pitches for what, exactly?

and a ton of other roads and bridges.

it's trumpyceps. it's like cordyceps, but for political opinion. once the fungus takes hold, the rot is inevitable. often, it eats its hosts alive from the inside.

vegas is transparent in its duplicity. there's nothing hypocritical about a place so honestly after every dollar in your pocket. nashville is a cesspool. but dammit, although garth's popularity skyrocketed country pop crap, there's still room for the dance.

so, four concerts is a tour.

this is all i saw:

whatever. i'm exressing my point of view. this is a message board on the internet. serious fucking business. i'm not looking for points. i'm just laying out methodology. maybe it's because i spend my days moderating thankless fights between my sons, i dunno, but my patience for "his headline touched me" is very low. i'll just move shit to cloak room. i don't know why yall can't just go there for your politics. it's the weirdest thing.

congrats. you were a bad actor and received appropriate punishment. or you got caught up in a sweep. whatever. plenty of bans were handed out in both the covid threads and the blm threads. and any number of other fucking threads. that doesn't mean that every "bannable" offense or whatever the fuck got 100% justice according to whoever. i'm not taking any fucking blame here. yall go out of your way to make this political, then bitch to me that i'm not doing it right or that i'm unfairly taking one side or another or that @immamac and/or @blacklab have some sort of inherent bias or goal or moderating objective. you know what our agenda is? leave us the fuck alone and act like fucking adults. yall argue like teenagers over stupid intangible shit, and i still don't see what the end goal is. yall expect us to somehow be perfect, and it's not possible. not only that, but you are framing and viewing our supposed lack of perfection through a lens of your own crafting, then complaining to us about the focus or lack thereof. our goal is not to treat anyone "special." jesus christ, everyone is such a victim. we try to keep the politics and the news separate to the degree possible while making the most posters as happy as possible while at the same time trying to stand by the principles of the board, of which there are remarkably few, and every one gets pissed. hell, i even made a mistake and made a trump post on a dt thread that got deleted by another mod, and rightfully so. it was a mistake and i regret making it. we are (mostly) real people here all dealing with real lives and real shit behind our fake screen names. our goal is to try and separate bad actor trolls and bots from the real people with different opinions. it's not as easy as yall might think.

yes, but again, those are news events happening in real time, not a criminal indictment. it's like covering the oj chase and the oj trial. two different elements. the news story of the slow chase, then the political aspects that came out during the trial. same with blm. real protests happening in real time in cities across the nation and people dying globally with covid. you could conceivably separate news from politics, but those threads moved real fast and of course we couldn't manage to keep all that shit segregated. again, i'd rather err doing nothing than err doing something when it comes to moderator action around here.

lol, yes, true nobody is treated with kid gloves around here. there's some of us doing the best we can to keep a in a forum and b in b forum but sometimes you get a + b. i know the school shooting shit makes some people mad, but there's a difference between the news of a live event (ie, a CURRENT current event happening in real time) and political news. there's a political angle to mass shootings, yes, and that's covered in CR. believe it or not, my default is to do nothing. if that's "kid gloves" then i guess that's kid gloves. i'd rather err on the side of nothing than get in a pissing match with yall. with paxton and trump prosecution stuff though, there's just no viable way to separate it.

according to whom?

maybe. maybe not. it's not surly's job to be the arbiter of information that people need to read. we aren't over here trying to determine what is newsworthy and what isn't. we're over here trying to keep politics confined to the politics board because it infects and destroys other boards that let it. if a news event is political, it should be discussed as political, not as a "news" topic so some of you so-called sneaky fuck trolls can try to get a rise out of each other like my teenage boys. yall do that to each other on dt over and over again. "totally not a political post but totally a political post" is a thing. yall do it for reasons that are beyond me. there are no tangible reasons for yall to fight like idiots over the forum where a discussion occurs. why does it fucking matter so much?

ummm, no, let's ask @Brisketexan instead. give me apocalyptic sela ward thunderdome, oh shit i finsihed already

who exactly do you think is being protected here? what agenda is being pursued?

yeah, he's fucked, if fucked is still a thing

i guess the only thing i have to ask is what is accomplished by discussing political news in DT? i mean, there is virtually no fucking way to separate the politics from a former president being indicted. we can talk about nixon now in DT because it's ancient fucking history. this is real time history happening in front of our eyes, and it's highly politicized. sometimes a news story is just a political news story, and it cannot be separated. what's accomplished by having a "news only" indictment of a former president thread? what is it you'll get here you won't get in CR?

yeah, i dunno either. i've seen it subsequently corrected that the people were actualy autobiographers for mark meadows. whatever that means

lol all these guys are going down thing is, multiple people were running audio on that meeting including his autobiographer (?) so he knew tape was running and just didn't care