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Originally Posted by Edward64
Nah, he didn't say that (or at least not what I recapped). I don't want to be accused of moving goal posts.
Just making that clear as I know some non-involved people jump into threads without bothering to read prior posts before making accusations.
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Oh, I see the problem. Let me be more clear and explicit. I wouldn't want to cause any confusion.
/insert Cartman with megaphone gif from South Park movie/
What I'm trying to say is that each time this absurd defense is posted, this extremely silo'd way of pretending that's the only yardstick for someone, there's a chance I might respond with illustrating just how absurd it is. Not that he posted numerous paragraphs here, but that the one sentence is taken out of context as some be-all-end-all litmus test.
That's all I was trying to say. My post had little to do with Flasch. It has everything to do with, again, I have to keep using this word because it's the best way I can to describe it, using this "absurd" defense of any and all critiques or situations surrounding this bill.
I believe that each time this has been cowardly done in the past, each time there has been a need to passive/aggressively insult Flasch as a random defense and get called out, the next post has always been to play the victim. In the past it has been to pretend that's not what was meant and/or talk about how the aggressor is getting picked on after picking the fight. Or maybe it will be to point back to whatever specific absurd point is most notable, never mind that we're over 150 posts in this thread - but one point in one post - yeah, that's the only one that matters. It will be a protest of pretending what was said was not actually said or ignoring everything else that has been said.
But, again, I'm just cataloguing what has happened in the past. Maybe that won't happen this time. Sarcastically, maybe it's just one of the rules of this thread that supposedly this thread has that the rest of the board doesn't. Then again, that sounds a bit absurd, as well.
SI