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Wow, you're really trying hard to be dumb here seeing as how I didn't make any comments regarding the rights of private companies to regulate their online spaces, it's like you're so interested in picking a fight with me that you're willing to put on the clown shoes and the makeup to do it. For the sake of argument, I can pretend you don't know what is meant by "de facto public space", but frankly you're plenty tiresome even without me assuming you're less bright than you are. Do you also need me to pretend that you don't know why it's funny for the "literal fascism" crowd to cheer on the public/private partnership suppressing disfavored views, or is that one obvious enough for your fellow midwits to admit understanding?



Little free advice, aside from the reading comprehension that should go without saying:

https://writers.com/concise-writing



Omit needless words.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subject only in outline, but that every word tell.

You're a one trick pony, and it's not a very good trick. What's next,accusing me of tRAsh tAlK again? Then, you're also the one that thought calling me "dorks" was the height of wit, so maybe this really is the best you can do as you follow me around the forum, kind of sad if that's the case.

Yeah you did.



The "de facto public space" is the internet which I believe MTG still has full access too. Facebook , Twitter Et al are just dark busy clubs around the square which have a very strict dress code - if you don't don clown shoes and makeup you don't get in.

Well, lets see, you've called me dumb, a clown, tiresome, "less bright", a mid-wit, a one-trick pony, and sad. Please, tell me again how you totally don't trash talk. Then you can say "it's not trash talk, its FACTS!", and then I can point out that that's just more trash talk. So yeah, I think it's fair to accuse you of more trash talk.

Hey, remember that time that you mocked me for using AlTeRnAtInG CaPs? But I bet you're being ironic, which makes you kool for doing it. Yes, I called you "dorks", and that was the end of it. I don't remember celebrating or anything that would indicate that I felt it was the "height of wit". All I was doing was mocking you and pepe for similarly bastardizing my name like a couple of schoolkids, which you two seemed rather pleased with. It really seems like I'm the one living in your head, what with all the imaginary fan-fics you keep writing about me.

I know you don't read what I write, but do you even read what you write? It's like you're just copying what other people say about you, and hurl it back. If you truly believe in brevity, then you could save yourself a lot of trouble and just say "I know you are, but what am I?" over and over.

You spend an awful lot of time engaging someone you claim isn't worth engaging.

Hey remember that time you said you only need two paragraphs to cut someone up? Still waiting

Hey, I know, call me stupid again. I'm sure it will TOTALLY work THIS time. Clown shoes? Better to be a comedy than a tragedy

As for your rules of brevity, based on what drug-fueled logic should I give a rotting toss what you think the rules for writing should be? Furthermore, your own rules state that "This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short", which seems to undermine your incessant whimpering about my audacity to write at length. It seems like you're just trying to invent ways to "tie my hands" as it were. Part of me wants to take that as a challenge, and start writing even longer, since the snippets I write here are but a fraction of the length of the papers I usually have to pen. Another part of me wants to take that as a challenge and start replying to you entirely in Haiku. Here's two for now.

Dox makes many claims
Never any evidence
Now comes the trash talk

Petty posturing
Thinks everyone is stupid
Acting like a brat

I can also reply in the form of a song, if that's preferable.

Noooooo oooneeee talks s**t like Dox
No one throws fits like Dox
No one gaslights and picks fights for kicks quite like Dox
His sick burns are highly OVER-rated
Who thinks he's greeeeaaaaaat? Mostly just Doooooox!

Perhaps a meme is more your speed? It's even short, with very few pesky words.



Please, let me know what silly rules you'd like (me, not you of course) to adhere to, to compensate for your lack of skill and ability with the written word.

Yes, sometimes I do clown around. But do remember - some clowns make themselves look foolish, and some clowns make others look foolish. Some clowns merely help others make fools of themselves. Is being called a clown supposed to hurt my feelings? How fragile do you think I am? Is this the best you've got? Cut me up already. I was promised a cutting up, in two paragraphs or less. Is this the height of your wit? (sad trombone sound)

!	Cornflake wrote:
	Now that tempers have flared, please calm down and let's have no more of it. It should be possible to discuss this topic without getting snippy with each other. I know it's more fun to strut around with little sharpened sticks but it takes the discussion nowhere and when that happens, the chance of a thread being locked or vanishing increases proportionally. Play nicely.

Then you should have no problem quoting the part in my one paragraph post where I did so.

He already did.Please explain why you think private fora are part of the "modern public square"; why you think private companies arbitrarily limit who has access to the "modern public square"; and why you think that fascists would find this ironic.

Am I not supposed to point out your numerous flaws and deficiencies just because you're going to whine about my "trash talk"? For someone who constantly complains that people are trying to tie your hands, silence you, label you in such a way that no one will take your seriously, etc (all of which you manage to inflict on yourself anyway), you sure do it a lot yourself, trying to preemptively take criticism of yourself off the table by labeling it unfair or poor sport, while engaging in the exact same behavior yourself.



Yep, that's how it works when you build an attack style around a tired cliche, other people get to make fun of you for it.




Worth engaging and fun to bat around are not the same thing; you're like one of those sand filled inflatable punching bags that just keeps popping up; it doesn't really gain me anything to knock you down again, but it's amusing to do it.



Given your blinkered vision, I imagine you'll be waiting a long time, not a lot I can do about that.



I actually wasn't calling you stupid, I was calling you malicious, or intentionally dense in your seeking out a fight, but I guess pointing out your inability to see that could be seen as questioning your intelligence.



Well, there's a whole tradition of brevity and concision in writing that hardly emanates from me, and we're online, a medium that calls out for clarity and literary efficiency, but also, it seems to piss you off for some reason, as accurate criticism has a way of doing, so here we are. By all means knock yourself out, it just gives me more opportunities to cut out the crazy bits and mock them, and if each post takes you longer to write, that means you can write fewer of them, a net gain for the community.

I'm also not sure where you got drug fueled from, have you been reading my posts about my ketamine therapy? Granted, being high would probably make "debating" you fairer as it might bring me closer to your level, but it's not my normal practice.



All I'm going to take from this is that you don't ever get to make any claims about rent free living in anyone's head again, you're literally penning poems and songs about some guy on a discussion board, that's dare I say a bit creepy. Also, my shtick is that I bring the evidence and I beat you up with it, as can be seen in 14 years of post history clearly available by clicking on my name, adding "liar" to your list of flaws.

!	Cornflake wrote:
	As this thread has already collapsed into pointless noise: ... and had already generated three reports, I'll put it out of its misery now. Locked.