John Wilkes Booth

lol, ok. that's a cop out if i ever heard one. and nah that plugging thing doesn't sound like my thing, thanks though.

Chula Vista

Dude, we're not going to agree. You just want to use simplistic labels like "self-censorship" or "victim blaming" instead of looking deeply into the particulars of this particular event.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

John Wilkes Booth

i was responding to ori with that post, not you.

i know we're not going to agree but those labels are perfectly accurate. you can explain what deeper details it is you think i'm missing but just saying that i'm not looking deep enough and leaving it at that is meaningless tbh.

Oriphiel

John, why should I feel the need to respond to you when you're destroying your own argument so succinctly?



I've already said everything that I have to say, and yet all you want to talk about is the non-issue of "censorship", which was never even on the table until you randomly plopped it down and called it the main course because you forgot to put the turkey in the oven.

Now get in plug! You'll love it, trust me. I thought it sounded awful at first, but I've actually learned a hell of a lot about the people on Music Banter by going there. And I've also had a blast, so there's that.

Chula Vista

I just popped my plug cherry and it is fun. I need to create a playlist and get behind the board!

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Oriphiel

Not too many people play Led Zeppelin in plug. I'm expecting you to fill that void!

John Wilkes Booth

i didn't randomly bring it up.. i've been talking about it the entire time which i just demonstrated in my last post that you conveniently decided not to read. actually maybe you haven't been reading any of my posts. that would actually explain this discourse rather well.

and no means no. don't be a rapist

Oriphiel

If you were really arguing in favor of freedom of speech this whole time, then it actually just makes you look like a complete idiot. Because you chose to start a fight about the absurdity of censorship with the guy who not too long ago wrote this:

Congrats, John. I don't know how or why you did it, but you managed to start a fight with the one person who actually agreed with your point of view. You are the ultimate failure of debaters worldwide. Now get the hell out of my thread.

Oh, and by the way, a rape joke? Really? Very classy.

John Wilkes Booth

actually it would make me look like an idiot except i kept repeating to you that that's what i was on about and you kept coming back at me with irrelevant **** about the black panthers and baseless accusations that i was supporting violence. so it actually makes you look like you can't read.

and you're a guy? i assumed you were a woman.

Oriphiel

John. Stop. You've already admitted that your sole purpose for being here is to defend the freedom of expression. I've just pointed out to you that defending freedom of expression was my entire purpose for entering this thread in the first place! At literally any time in our argument, you could have pulled up one of my earlier posts and said "Look! You said right here that you love freedom of speech! If we're fighting for the same thing, then why are we fighting each other?", and yet you didn't. I, on the other hand, was the one to notice that our stances were the same, and I pulled up quotes to prove it.

Do you know what this means? Either of us could easily have understood that we were on the same side at any time, because the proof was right there. But I was the one who noticed it, not you. And that can only be because I was the one who actually bothered to read the posts in this thread. You can't claim that you actually read my posts, because if you had, you would have seen our similarities in a heartbeat. This right here:

Is evidence that you never actually read anything I wrote in this thread. Now I'll say it one last time; we're on the same side. Every punch you swing at me is just a punch that you're taking at yourself.