Nope, but it does not surprise me that you jump to a baseless conclusion.

I held a compartmented TS clearance, and the poly is part of that process. It's not all that pleasant.

But thanks for the attempted insult - it serves as a nice marker for your lack of class.

Matt

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So many insults, Matt, so little time.

Sure - I'll teach you how to accurately quote the statements of others in return. You can then pass it on to Sam, who is, like you, desperately lacking in that department.

I'll grant you your semantical gyrations - you were not calling a whole nation fascist on the basis of a single incident, just a whole city.

That's much better

Matt

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Isn't this a violation of the rule that says you are not allowed to call another poster a liar, even cloaked in fancy wording? Matt - I think you need to give yourself some infraction points for this. Should I alert your post or will you be doing it yourself?

The only reason I am replying to you is to address the allegation.

If you have a complaint, take it to an admin - as many times as you have been through the process, you surely know where to find one.

Frankly, your continual replies to my posts after I have told you I have no further interest in conversing with you are bordering on pathetic.

In summation, feel free to PM an admin or use the report post button if you feel that there was some violation there. Other than that, I have no further use for you, nor anything else to say to you, so you can stop following me about yapping.

Matt

Edited to add: I edited my post to remove even the appearance of violating the rule. This does not alter the fact that both Sam and WOI deliberately misrepresented my posts, claiming that I said things I plainly did not say. I'll leave it to the reader to determine what that actually means.

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Implicit meaning is as important in writing as explicit meaning is. A capability to correctly read this implicit meaning is shared by all avid readers.

Now that was a stylistic enhancement. I accept that you stumbled upon it.

I don't think so.
I'm left with the following choice:
Either I ascribe the following sequence to mere serendipidity:

• There was a thread on police brutality.
• You and I were engaged in it.
• I referred to the police brutality as fascist.
• Within hours, a second thread, by your hand, appears on police brutality.
• In the first post, yours, a reference to 'fascism' is made.

or I reasonably hold that these events are related. I continue to choose the latter.

In the sequence from thinking over typing to posting, I see no activity in any orifice whatsoever. As I have a severe cold, there is orifice related activity, yet luckily for the board, the results of that activity are untransferable.
I prefer Tantra to Yoga BTW.

Another implicit conclusion
Since, when comparing the evidence in both threads, it follows that for you, low evidence establishes Truth, and high evidence does not, you concluded towards UnTruth a priori in the other thread. Logic.

You started the thread, presenting the video, and made no statements to the contrary. The thread is not in Off-topic or Just for fun, so what else can one conclude as to your endorsement of its veracity. Are we then to be suspicious of every thread you start ?

This I did not claim.

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Such ego Matt! I'm not following you around yapping, I am posting my opinions on a political discussion board.

you keep mentioning my name in your posts and at the same time pretending that you aren't conversing with me. You're being hilarious.

Meanwhile don't fucking call me a liar. It's against YOUR rules. Don't be a mod if you can't follow your own rules.

I speak for none, and none speak for me. Please do not jumble posters and their respective posts, opinions, techniques, personalities,...

Close, but no cigar. I'll apply the bolded advice to yourself and state once again:

The Atlanta POLICE......

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Hillel the Elder

Gosh, that's awfully generous of you. Too bad your generosity does not extend to the entire thread - if it did, this pointless debate about whether your belief of my meaning supersedes my actual meaning would not be wasting bandwidth, time and effort.


Then, you are wrong.

Then you continue to choose to be wrong, which is your privilege.

I see - so by extension, you support each and every thing you do not explicitly disclaim in every thread you start?

This could be interesting. I guess you must support child abuse, slavery and people who talk in movies, since you have disclaimed none of those things in the last thread you started.

This has degenerated past stupid, and I am completely done with it.

My position has been clearly and plainly stated in this thread. If you still cannot grasp my position on the events seen on the tape, there is no way I will ever be able to explain them to you.

Matt

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Why do you refer to me in a reply to Samantha ?
Bring it up in your replies to me or take appropriate action in your capacity of moderator. I hold to my opinions and don't bow to authority.

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Hillel the Elder

More gymnastics.

OK, fine, we'll take you at your word (a courtesy you have refused to extend to me, but what the heck).

According to their website, there are nearly 1800 sworn members in the Atlanta police department.

You've declared the entire department "fascist" over the alleged actions of a small handful of them.

Seem reasonable to you?

Matt

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Because you've both engaged in the same behavior - deliberately attributing to me statements I never made.

I've mentioned it several times in my replies to you.

Matt

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Seems the , 'I hate the police' forces are coming on pretty strong on this thread. I havn't read all the posts here but have the terms 'facist' and 'murderers' been tossed out yet?

Actually, I have thrown out the term murder, and it's quite apt. Did you see that video?

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NFA JJG 42-95

Free People/Free Markets

Following the Path of the Beam

Yes, and murder doesn't fit at all.

The scumbag didn't die...

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