However you are I am certain smart enough to see where on the sand bar that your initial responce to "the joke" must run aground and from that point with the tide against you will be prevented from making harbour to deliver your cargo of historic observations upon "the joke".
What "joke", and why are you putting it in quotes?
I don't like seeing you becoming the joke because you have run aground and certainly not because you waste your effects trying to refloat on an outgoing tide.
You mistake my motives. All I am doing with the Tribe That Rubs Shit In Their Hair is countering dishonest repetition of lies with repetition of denial - there's no argument involved. (Notice they haven't been quoting or linking to what they claim I posted, at all. Instead, they run off of dishonest and willful misreading, illiterate and bone-headed paraphrase, and so forth - a complete lack of good faith, going back months and years now).
The essential point is that their pretensions of being good people, of acting on any kind of principle or reasonable viewpoint, are all bs. They've been pulling this shit for years, and it has done a lot of damage to stuff I care about - and there is no point in cutting them slack any more. They aren't going to change, and the only reasonable response is continual repetition of accurate description and straightforward labeling - just repeat the physical facts of their behavior, over and over and over, so that what one is doing by choosing sides with them is constantly in view.
Don't cut them any slack. They aren't entitled to it. They abuse people they think are vulnerable, and blame their targets, and when cornered they "explain"- just like that joke, if that's the one you were referring to.
Or from the other direction: You seem to have taken the contents - as opposed to the effects - of this bs from the Bandarlog seriously. It's not serious. Recall that these are the same guys who piled up this same mob slander routine on the assertion that I was not an American, that I had never taken a class in economics, that I was a partisan Democrat in the tank for Clinton, that I hated guns or this or that or the other, and so forth. Same pattern - all paraphrases and altered wording leading to unsupported assertion, never quotes or arguments they would have to back up, always immediate personal attack, never discussion or consideration, nothing in good faith. It's the only way they know. It doesn't become serious by repetition, or by getting "liked" by the tribe, or by insistence and assumption on the part of the specimens who invented it.
So a familiar load of bullshit, and if you reread you'll notice it's all based originally on lies and most of them projections - at least, stuff that looks exactly like lies, like deliberate misrepresentations derived from introspection and their own posting - there's no "meltdown" in any of my posts (there is a collective spinout into idiocy by them), there's no revision by claim of joking anywhere in my posting (there are two or three such posts by them - that this is a "humor thread" etc), there's no post by me explaining a joke (there are at least three such posts by them) - a couple weeks back I posted no error of economic analysis (Seattle did), nothing indicating I wasn't an American (a couple of them aren't), etc.
There's just a pack of juvenile Trump-like ignoramuses who never grew up and never got called on their shit when they might have learned better, who believed the pundits and politicians who stroked them, who agree to preen each other on some line of slander they think they can sell by holding hands and closing their eyes and saying some magic words Frank Luntz fed them years ago, and who sincerely believe they deserve to be taken seriously regardless of their behavior and posting here (Check out Truck Captain's absurd explanation of why he found my imitating illustration joke funny, for example - or read post 52 and check it against the reality of post 40)
