Originally Posted by Django
So, you're saying that being emotional is being somehow inhuman? I'm sorry to contradict you on all counts--firstly, you can't read my tone on a forum, so how can you discern my emotional frame of mind when I post anything?
Well, silly me, I guess I always just assumed that when you start comparing people to Stalin and Hitler and flinging exclamation points around like indie concert flyers, that you're probably not entirely calm.
Originally Posted by Django
What is really interesting is that if you read the arguments posted by Django to oppose the Iraq war, all of which were so vehemently opposed by you, have proven to have been accurate--everything you said to defend the Iraq war--the existence of WMDs in Iraq, the supposed low cost of the war in human and economic terms, the economic opportunities supposedly afforded by the war, etc.--every one of them has been proven false.
Um, no they haven't. For one, I didn't adamantly proclaim the existence of WMDs. I believed they existed, but I'm in good company there, and I never listed it as the sole justification (neither did the administration, for that matter). Also, the war remains the second-cheapest in American history, behind only the first Gulf War. As for the cost in human terms; that can't be measured objectively, but the degree to which we can measure it objectively (military causalties) shows us that while a price has been paid, it's not even remotely on par with debacles like Vietnam.
Also, I hope you feel at least a hint of shame when you refer to "Django" in the third person, as if he's someone else.
Originally Posted by Django
Is it any wonder that it appears to me that you are not entirely in touch with reality?
You know what makes this sentence a thing of beauty? The fact that it came just two paragraphs after you pretend you weren't Django. Your irony nourishes and sustains me.
Originally Posted by Django
I am proud of my behavior because, on the whole, I have kept my integrity and been honest, credible and level-headed. I admit that, occasionally, I lost my temper, but only under extreme provocation, as cited above.
"Extreme provocation" being, in this case, someone telling you you need to occasionally use facts if you want to engage them in debate. Would being called "Stalinist," breaking forum rules and sending threatening emails also be considered "extreme provocation"? Because if it is, apparently I've got a few dozen outbursts saved up that I'd like to cash in.
Originally Posted by Django
The "Django Saga"... witty indeed. However, your claim that you have been "staggeringly open" does not ring true. On the contrary, you have, in the past, been staggeringly biased, staggeringly underhanded and staggeringly mistaken on various levels. To add to that, you continue to justify endorsing all the defamatory posts that have attacked and insulted me from various quarters, all the while claiming to be a forum admin. Fact is, your only real skill is justifying and legitimizing your bias, your double standards and your frequently glaring errors in judgment. Get real and admit your mistakes, for a change!
Explain to me and the rest of the community why you're the only one who can see these things. As far as I see, there are three possiblities: 1) they are all gullible fools (not possible, as you admit many of them are intelligent), 2) I am so diabolical and clever as to trick dozens of people over the course of several years to think I'm fair, or 3) you're a friggin' sociopath.
Originally Posted by Django
Okay, then, if you don't consider the things that have been said about me to be slanderous or defamatory or insulting, would you object if I posted the same things about you, Golgot, Caitlyn or any of your other friends? Give me a break, man! You have got to be kidding me!
Uh, you
do post those kinds of things about us. LordSlaytan compiled a
staggering list of them, and you're tossing them around in this thread, too.
More important, though, is that I don't think you know what "slanderous" means. It doesn't mean rude, or hurtful, or unkind; it applies to things that are hurtful and
false.
Originally Posted by Django
Golgot was flagrantly attacking and insulting me in a very mean-spirited fashion. If you endorse that kind of behavior, then it only goes to prove that everything I have said about you--every claim I have made about your bias, your double standards, your hypocrisy and your detachment from reality is unquestionably true!
Unless what Golgot said was accurate and warranted. Which it was.
Originally Posted by Django
About leaving, well, that's what I am planning to do in any case, considering that all my attempts to raise anything remotely resembing an interesting issue continues to be met with hostility, misunderstanding and personally directed antagonism! Who needs that?
You, apparently, or else you'd stop coming back.
Tell you what: seeing as how the first step in ridding yourself of any addiction is admitting you have a problem, and you seem entirely incapable of doing that, I'm just going to break your habit for you.
You are henceforth banned...again. I can only hope it'll stick this time. I realize it is likely that you'll find your way back here with a new ISP, or a new computer, or simply a modified or masked IP address, at which time you'll try to start over again. Inevitably, your anti-social tendencies, liberal use of punctuation, and bizarre affinity for Sylvester Stallone will all show themselves, and you'll be banned again. This was your second chance (or fifth, depending on how you look at it), and you blew it. No matter how polite you are under your next incarnation, the moment I become anywhere near sure that it's you, you'll be banned.
This will keep happening. No matter how often or how quickly you're willing to register new names, I can ban them (and their IP addresses) even quicker, and with a great deal more satisfaction.
Thus ends The Django Saga; not with a bang, but with a ban, and most definitely with a whimper. A whimper we won't have to listen to anymore. Good riddance.
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- but dyamit, i just couldn't muster enough blather 
