Brexit Bungle

[Dill]

(12-11-2018, 09:23 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfa Wrote: If you consider pointing out facts as a personal attack then, I guess?  Another common tactic of you three btw, claim everything is a "personal attack".  I wish you realized how laughably transparent this is.

Doesn't work that way. Anyone can call other people names and then claim they are just pointing out "facts."  That's how middle school bullies justify calling fat girls fat.

Claiming that Dino, some third person not on this thread, and I somehow "abdicate personal responsibility" or advocate for that is an inference and a value judgment, not a fact, especially when simply claimed.  

Critical in judging whether a personal attack has occurred is whether the attacker has turned away from the topic to denigrate another poster gratuitously.    E.g. by dismissing another's views as simply "hypocrisy" or laughable "inanity" or other imputed personal failings, as opposed to demonstrating some factual error or logical inconsistency in their statements.  You may feel bad when the latter happens, but it is not the same as personal attack.

(12-11-2018, 09:23 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: You appear to be implying I have stated otherwise in previous threads.  If so I would be interested in you pointing a few of them out.

What I "imply" is that you frequently throw up standards to police threads, as if claiming some moral high ground, then ignore them when it suits you. E.g., one thread you are all for evidence-based argument and no speculation. On another you pop in to tell the benighted fools already posting what had to happen behind closed doors in Florida prosecutor's office.  After openly proclaiming the "amusing ignorance" of all posters, you very soon complain your "expertise" is not respected. I am "belittling" you by indicating your expertise is merely asserted and cannot support your claim to special knowledge. So after a grand entry demeaning the "blinkered ignorance" of other posters you suddenly re-position yourself as victim of "shaming" by that guy in "the ivory tower."

Or sometimes its the other way around. E.g. on one thread you throw out the most extreme hyperbole (e.g., I'm an ISIS supporter because I don't call them animals). Then on another thread you pop up as the hyperbole police, as if that were typical of others.   But I have already laid out this case for you on the Acosta thread, where I track your re-positioning from post to post.  Super power.

Anyway, that's why I say "today" you are for personal responsibility; like "hyperbole" or "hypocrisy" as you use those terms, it has no reflexive application.