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Dude, admittedly you are being provoked (and @fuckduck9000 is almost certainly on the path to bannination) but you know better than this. You right now have a mod sheet that is getting almost long enough that we have to scroll down, and it's about 50% AAQCs, 50% antagonism like this. The AAQCs count for a lot, which is why you haven't eaten a ban yet, but that doesn't mean you can just react like this with impunity. You need to chill, even when someone is baiting you, or you will get a time-out.
I do know better than this. Also I do not believe he is "baiting" or "provoking" me in the sense of calculatingly putting on an act to elicit emotional reaction, I take his line of action as essentially sincere (if supported by intellectually disingenuous arguments, as I've claimed a few times by now) expression of contempt for my object-level worldview and general epistemology; a feeling I mostly reciprocate. He explicitly threw down the gauntlet with this subthread, but despite that I'd be willing to speak more courteously if there were no affected postures of domination and schooling one's lesser («you have failed the test» etc).
You can see I have the same cringeworthy failure mode, and perhaps it would be fair of me to cut him some slack for this reason. But I am constitutionally not fair-minded enough for that, so it is impossible to continue this in a dignified manner, therefore I'll just block @fuckduck9000 for the time being. (Sorry man, you can take this as a win if you see it this way).
Because of the hostility, him, me, @SecureSignals, @FCfromSSC, @Primaprimaprima are missing an opportunity for more fruitful exploration of the question of our alleged «postmodernism». Hermeneutics of suspicion, critical theory (as a method, not contemporary politicized doctrine) and conflict theory (Scott's simplified reinvention of the latter for grey tribe techies who haven't engaged with prog-coded writing) and other adjacent takes are close to the heart of the Culture War problem. A pity.
When have I stood in the way of you guys exploring anything? I just responded to people responding to me. You threatened to block prima a few days ago. I guess when there are no mistake theorists left, you'll be banning and blocking each other.
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I thought his answer was fine. I was somewhat curt.
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