DOJ now releasing unredacted names of victims

@Cliff-Mashburn said
I thought you said you knew about it? If they covered it up, how did you find out?
Or are you just repeating what someone told you and accepted as gospel without checking?

Hypocrite.

You do this every single day.

@Suzianne said
Hypocrite.

You do this every single day.

You are just so incredibly tiresome and ineffective.

Please work on that.

@Arkturos said
Whatever, Karen.

WHY do you support people with a differing political ideology than you?

Just to be a jackass?

@Suzianne said
Hypocrite.

You do this every single day.

He made a claim and now he's heming and hawing around an answer.
How am I a hypocrite for calling him out on it?

@Arkturos said
You are just so incredibly tiresome and ineffective.

Please work on that.

And you are so incredibly hypocritical, wishy-washy and dishonorable.

I don't expect you to work on that.

But the difference between us is you want to somehow control me to "work on" something I'm not doing.

You are so hypocritical that if I were indeed like you, you'd want to be my best friend.

As if.

@Suzianne said
WHY do you support people with a differing political ideology than you?

Just to be a jackass?

Mentioning your apparent deficits is not really the same as supporting Cliff or anyone else.

Why are you so prone to overreacting and escalating things to the extent that a reasonable conversation is impossible?

By the way, I gather most dojos charge a fee for instruction. I hope you appreciate that I am sometimes willing to spar with you for free.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
He made a claim and now he's heming and hawing around an answer.
How am I a hypocrite for calling him out on it?

You do the same things you accuse him of.

You know, the very definition of hypocritical.

This ain't rocket science.

"Or are you just repeating what someone told you and accepted as gospel without checking?"

Sound familiar?

As I said, it should be, you do this all the time.

@Arkturos said
Mentioning your apparent deficits is not really the same as supporting Cliff or anyone else.

Why are you so prone to overreacting and escalating things to the extent that a reasonable conversation is impossible?

By the way, I gather most dojos charge a fee for instruction. I hope you appreciate that I am sometimes willing to spar with you for free.

If you think there is room for "reasonable conversation" between any LGBTQ+ and a Cliff- or AvJoe-like conservative, then you are dangerous to your own people.

@Suzianne said
You do the same things you accuse him of.

You know, the very definition of hypocritical.

This ain't rocket science.

I know and appreciate that you have many reasons to be proud, but I think your pride might get in your own way at times.

Let's consider that I seem to be two or three decades older than you, probably have a longer stride than you (but would politely walk slower so that you can keep up), and generally write longer sentences than you.*

The snow is falling in Japan. Is this how you really want to behave?
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* Thank goodness I don't have more of a Kantian streak.

@Arkturos said
I know and appreciate that you have many reasons to be proud, but I think your pride might get in your own way at times.

Let's consider that I seem to be two or three decades older than you, probably have a longer stride than you (but would politely walk slower so that you can keep up), and generally write longer sentences than you.*

The snow is falling in Japan. Is this how you really want to behave?
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* Thank goodness I don't have more of a Kantian streak.

The only one getting in my way here is you.

Someone who probably should have my back.

The bottom line is the fact that you don't is dangerous to me.

And you for damned sure know what I am talking about.

@Arkturos said
* Thank goodness I don't have more of a Kantian streak.

I wouldn't pronounce it quite that way.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
All I noticed is you CLAIMED someone said Trump helped someone dispose of a body and NOW you re cheken-chitting your way out of it.

You better check the records, I never said that or heard about it till I read it from wildgrass. I said if true DOJ would cover it up INSTANTLY. Burn notice.

@Arkturos said
Mentioning your apparent deficits is not really the same as supporting Cliff or anyone else.

Why are you so prone to overreacting and escalating things to the extent that a reasonable conversation is impossible?

By the way, I gather most dojos charge a fee for instruction. I hope you appreciate that I am sometimes willing to spar with you for free.

Escalating? When DOJ is LITERALLY THUMBING THEIR NOSE at the law? When near unanimous vote in both houses and Trump signed the bill and they had a FULL MONTH to get their act together and now it is clear as hell the act is to protect Trump AND his rich filthy buddies.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
So are you telling me they did cover it, or are you just passing gas again?

I don't watch those shows or visit those websites, so I have no idea.

@Suzianne said
The only one getting in my way here is you.

Someone who probably should have my back.

The bottom line is the fact that you don't is dangerous to me.

And you for damned sure know what I am talking about.

I think I'm starting to get it. You might have made some assumptions about me based on scanty information (as we all do) and maybe further posts of mine were not congruent with the image you might have had of me.

That was weird for me when some months ago you started announcing that I wasn't who you thought I was after we had already been chatting privately.
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RE: "The only one getting in my way here is you."
As for me being in your way: To do what? To go where?

Someone who is just sitting is not obstructed in any direction.

RE: "Someone who probably should have my back."
If you are worried about your back, please sit with your back against a stone wall (preferably steel-reinforced) rather than a paper one.

What about me made you think that I "should" automatically have your back?
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Sorry to say, but if you have felt betrayed by me, I think it's probably because you didn't really know me in the first place, and perhaps made some assumptions based on demographics or a single trait without really knowing much about me.

I haven't had the experience of growing up with a sister, let alone a "mean girl" 😉 . Also, in our core family we were not sarcastic with one another. I hope you might be able to take a hint from that.

Maybe you feel more at home in the gay/rainbow community than I ever have, and maybe that is where you made your first misstep in your assumptions about me.

If you really do aspire to become a (helpful) counselor, it's clear that you need to learn how to listen to other people despite whatever assumptions occur, and maybe ease off on the insults and disparagements.

Now, where should I send the invoice for that consultation? 😉