Tim Walz

[NUMBERICA]

Built buildings, made a hit TV show, became President of the United States, and got Sunni Muslim nations to sign a peace agreement with Israel for the first time in history. You know, the usual.

Do you mean the “peace agreement” (the Abraham Accords) that probably is a direct cause of October 7th?

 

[MTS]

I keep seeing that there are new posts in this thread, then when I open it up, it's just people I have on ignore, I'm guessing posting stupid ****.

@Jason is there any way to make it so a thread won't register unread posts if those posts are by people we have on ignore?

The funny thing is, I put a couple people on ignore early on, and if it weren't for this I wouldn't even be able to tell they're posting because nobody ever acknowledges or responds to them. You'd think at some point they'd realize they're totally absent from the conversation, but I guess lack of self awareness can be a real deep well.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

Do you mean the “peace agreement” (the Abraham Accords) that probably is a direct cause of October 7th?

That is an interesting take. Do you think Hamas militants hate the idea of peaceful coexistence so much that the idea makes them want to kill Jews? You don't believe it was the Nakba, or apartheid, or Benjamin Netanyahu, but rather the finding of a way to live together peacefully that caused October 7th?

If it was the peace agreement that caused Hamas militants to kill a thousand Jews, why did they wait until after the Biden Administration had started unraveling it in an effort to cozy up to the Iranians? The Abraham Accords were signed under Trump. Why wait for Trump to leave office? Why didn't the Hamas militants start killing Jews immediately to show their opposition to living in peace?

Personally, I think you are reaching. I believe Hamas is an Iranian proxy group and Iran didn't have the ability to pull this off until Biden let them out of the box.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

The funny thing is, I put a couple people on ignore early on, and if it weren't for this I wouldn't even be able to tell they're posting because nobody ever acknowledges or responds to them. You'd think at some point they'd realize they're totally absent from the conversation, but I guess lack of self awareness can be a real deep well.

You have that backwards. It is the blockers who are totally absent from the conversation as evidenced by LogGrad's complaint. He logs in and sees conversation but it is all conversation he is totally absent from. He wants the board functionality to be changed so that he is not aware that he is totally absent from the conversation.

As for awareness on my part, meh. I view it like establishing protectionist tariffs. It weakens the thing being protected, in this case, ideas. I know a lot of stuff, but I often get proven wrong on something I thought I knew, but was incorrect on. I greatly miss @One Brow for that, may he rest in peace. My ideas are better and sharper for being strongly challenged. I'm not worried that the blockers don't challenge my ideas because I know they aren't capable. I don't begrudge their desire to live in walled gardens and I'm certainly not about to dumb down my ideas to come across as less intimidating.

 

[LogGrad98]

The funny thing is, I put a couple people on ignore early on, and if it weren't for this I wouldn't even be able to tell they're posting because nobody ever acknowledges or responds to them. You'd think at some point they'd realize they're totally absent from the conversation, but I guess lack of self awareness can be a real deep well.

Exactly. The funny thing is the trolls prove themselves unworthy of conversing with through personal attacks and vitriol and then scream the loudest to try to be continually heard with countless meaningless posts. I guess those extinction bursts can be pretty strong when fighting changing their behavior.

 

[MTS]

You have that backwards. It is the blockers who are totally absent from the conversation as evidenced by LogGrad's complaint. He logs in and sees conversation but it is all conversation he is totally absent from. He wants the board functionality to be changed so that he is not aware that he is totally absent from the conversation.

As for awareness on my part, meh. I view it like establishing protectionist tariffs. It weakens the thing being protected, in this case, ideas. I know a lot of stuff, but I often get proven wrong on something I thought I knew, but was incorrect on. I greatly miss @One Brow for that, may he rest in peace. My ideas are better and sharper for being strongly challenged. I'm not worried that the blockers don't challenge my ideas because I know they aren't capable. I don't begrudge their desire to live in walled gardens and I'm certainly not about to dumb down my ideas to come across as less intimidating.

You are not who I'm talking about. You're very engaged in the conversation and people reply to you often. If I blocked you I'd easily be able to tell you were still posting due to all the missing context.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

You are not who I'm talking about. You're very engaged in the conversation and people reply to you often. If I blocked you I'd easily be able to tell you were still posting due to all the missing context.

fair enough.

 

[FalseFlagg K]

You've been posting ill informed **** for years....

one man's "****" is another mans entertainment ... Surely your pimp would've taught you that over the years ???

 

[FalseFlagg K]

Exactly. The funny thing is the trolls prove themselves unworthy of conversing with through personal attacks and vitriol and then scream the loudest to try to be continually heard with countless meaningless posts. I guess those extinction bursts can be pretty strong when fighting changing their behavior.

stop talking about Thriller's problems

 

[str8line]

You have that backwards. It is the blockers who are totally absent from the conversation as evidenced by LogGrad's complaint. He logs in and sees conversation but it is all conversation he is totally absent from. He wants the board functionality to be changed so that he is not aware that he is totally absent from the conversation.

As for awareness on my part, meh. I view it like establishing protectionist tariffs. It weakens the thing being protected, in this case, ideas. I know a lot of stuff, but I often get proven wrong on something I thought I knew, but was incorrect on. I greatly miss @One Brow for that, may he rest in peace. My ideas are better and sharper for being strongly challenged. I'm not worried that the blockers don't challenge my ideas because I know they aren't capable. I don't begrudge their desire to live in walled gardens and I'm certainly not about to dumb down my ideas to come across as less intimidating.

I didn't realize OneBrow passed.

 

[NUMBERICA]

That is an interesting take. Do you think Hamas militants hate the idea of peaceful coexistence so much that the idea makes them want to kill Jews? You don't believe it was the Nakba, or apartheid, or Benjamin Netanyahu, but rather the finding of a way to live together peacefully that caused October 7th?

If it was the peace agreement that caused Hamas militants to kill a thousand Jews, why did they wait until after the Biden Administration had started unraveling it in an effort to cozy up to the Iranians? The Abraham Accords were signed under Trump. Why wait for Trump to leave office? Why didn't the Hamas militants start killing Jews immediately to show their opposition to living in peace?

Personally, I think you are reaching. I believe Hamas is an Iranian proxy group and Iran didn't have the ability to pull this off until Biden let them out of the box.

Skimmed your post and I’m just gonna say that boiling Hamas down to a mere Iranian proxy is a vast oversimplification and totally misses the core of the issue.

Palestinians were completely cut out of the process that directly impacts them and they had to do something massive and heinous to thrust the focus of the issue back to Palestinians, rather than the “peace deal” ABOUT them that marginalized them.

The sooner everyone can understand that there is no sustainable solution other than a two state solution, the better (but I am not saying it will be easy or smooth). Trump and Netanyahu engineered the Abraham Accords to further the one-state non-solution.

 

[LogGrad98]

I didn't realize OneBrow passed.

Not as far as his blog goes anyway. No obit out there. But if Al said it, it's likely disingenuous. Anything to get a rise out of people with no substance behind it. He's the pseudo-intellectual head of the Hydra of trolls operating on jazz fanz. But a troll nonetheless.