Yet Another GOP Strategist arrested for sex trafficking minors

[Gadianton]

pancakes, get off the moderator team immediately.

Canpakes. Please stay on the moderator team. Your efforts are appreciated.

[Some Schmo]

Looks like it may have been from Cultellus or someone else originally, prior to an edit. I shouldn’t mention him, though, or he’ll complain about being needled. : D

But, you forcefully agreed with it, so it must be valid, in your eye.

One would think that if someone thought a post was "excellent" that they would be delighted someone else mistook the words as theirs.

At the very least, you wouldn't expect them to get all indignant about it. Strange.

[ceeboo]

I have been starring at this for several minutes but I can't seem to solve the hidden message in the pattern.

I think the bottom half might be a "C" - I need another clue.

[canpakes]

Nobody has broken the forum rules more times that Qult, and just like criminals who complain constantly about the police, Cult is going to complain about any moderators, unless one day a complete dirt back is put in as mod that allows him to break the rules as he wishes to do.

He gets in long battles with Res also and very rude with Res, but Res, you know, is overly nice and so lets him do it. Like Honor, he's trying the extreme diplomacy angle for dealing with unhinged people. I don't fault that, I admire it in a way, but it's not the only way.

No worries. I don’t mind watching the fit pitching, double standards, predictable victim act and incessant whining. It keeps things interesting.

[canpakes]

pancakes, get off the moderator team immediately.

Canpakes. Please stay on the moderator team. Your efforts are appreciated.

Goodness, I’m not going anywhere. This is great practice for dealing with any future teenagers in my life. : D

[Chap]

I think Cultellus is brilliant - He has things to say that are deeply thought provoking

Such as that I am ""foaming ranting ideological lunatic insane and illogical", a very forceful allegation for which you could evidently find no justification when I asked you to give some.

Yup, that certainly provokes thoughts.

What is wrong with you, Chap? I gave you an answer to this already (and an apology - If you don't accept it, fine. I really don't care that you are so offended) - I'm not interested in holding your head while you cry foul - Good Lord, have you read some of the stuff that has been directed at other people on this board. Get a grip and stop playing the victim.

My offence or your apologies are not the issue here. The issue is your judgement and your pretensions to act as a 'nice guy' who just wants everybody to play nicely. You just dumped that in the trash by telling us how much you loved a post that made completely crazy and baseless accusations against a poster, accusations you know to be false.

Yet did Cultellus hear a word of rebuke from you? Nope. OK, so know I know the value to be placed on your all too freely given moral counsel.

[Some Schmo]

Canpakes. Please stay on the moderator team. Your efforts are appreciated.

Goodness, I’m not going anywhere. This is great practice for dealing with any future teenagers in my life. : D

To be honest, I've never even noticed your moderation. Like for a referee, that's a good thing.

I'll just say, however, that you entertain me. It's almost as though you have your own funny thoughts or something.

[ceeboo]

Please, keep needling the right-wingers on this forum......

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[Cultellus]

Please, keep needling the right-wingers on this forum......

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Yep.

[Cultellus]

This has been a great discussion.

I indeed moved a pawn in this gambit. I had no intention of winning anything by making this move. I did not expect to win anything. I did not win anything. It was just a move. A very simple one.

I am a victim of childhood sexual abuse. There. I said it. That is vulnerability. I do not take this issue lightly. I do not treat it as an ideological pawn in the world of propaganda warfare. I do not excuse some folks for it and lay into others, based on a suggestion by Carville or any fuckwit ideologues. I hate the power play that children are subject to, and I am empathetic to their victimization.

I have been ignoring pancakes for a while, because he is a needling nuisance who attacks the poster before the content of a post. This is his routine. I have held back on many many many topics and points, simply because he is involved. I am concerned that he plays this role, while also being privy to moderator forums and reports, including notes that may be included in reports.

This is my concern, it is not one that I am shy about. I have made it known. Seeing the teams align and the thumbs go up on the needling, is perfect. We are all transparent about how we view the joint and how we operate in the joint. I am fine with that. A transparent process is a good process. Panny and everyone else knows I find his excuse that he needles in the black, and not in the red, a nuance. Panny and everyone else also knows that I may be the only person with that view. Panny and everyone else also knows that I am attacking the process. Panny and everyone knows this because I have said it out loud.

This topic should be a serious one. And it is one that should be had with empathy, and not ideological daggers. And certainly, it is one that could and should be had without the expressed disdain and judgments of one of the moderators with the atta-boy of his crew. But, we still made progress and this was entertaining. Cheers.