Matt wrote: C-Fan wrote:
I feel like you are shitting on my face when you write garbage like this.
it makes me want to punch you in the face. You dont understand what democracy is. Fucking shame on you Nathan.
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Oooooh....out of context quote with the aim of smearing somebody! I bet I can guess your political affiliation in less than 2 guesses...
For a bit of context, imagine this situation:
Terrorists bomb your hometown, and kill 300 people. After a couple days, you finally find out that your friends and family survived. The politicians in your hometown tried to take advantage of the bombings for their political gain. The people of your hometown go out and exercise their democratic right to vote, and vote out the incumbents. 90% of the country opposed the war in Iraq, but the incumbents sent troops anyway.
Now, in this situation, I would call my friends and family in my hometown heroes of democracy. They weren`t intimidated by terrorist bombings, and they weren`t intimidated by the incumbent government who tried to use fear to solidify their political position. They went out in huge numbers and voted.
Now imagine that somebody on this forum tells you that your friends and family, people who are still recovering from a terrorist bombing, are cowards and are giving into the terrorists. That`s pretty sick, in my opinion. When NYC was attacked on 9/11, did other countries start calling them cowards the very next day? Even if people truly believe that the Spaniards are `appeasing terrorists,` it`s just plain bad taste to attack them while the hospitals and morgues are still fresh with bodies. Its in even worse taste considering that the Spaniards, especially those in Madrid, showed their true democratic spirit in going out and voting against an unpopular government.
So while this situation may be entirely hypothetical to you, it happened to me, on this very forum. Even if winning the moddy for `friendliest poster` was my top priority in life, I would be remiss if I didn`t point out the crassness and faulty logic of posters who are inappropriately insulting my people. Sorry if I didnt point it out in a nice way, but sometimes it`s not appropriate to be friendly.
As for how I`ve dealt with you... get over it. You posted mindless crap thinking that nobody would call you on it, and when I called you on it and you couldn`t defend yourself, you felt humiliated. For anybody interested, you can go read the thread yourself. Am I `unfriendly` in that thread? Yes, but upon reading that thread, it just becomes obvious that Matt is attacking me here because I bitch-slapped him so hard in the other thread.
In my defense, I like to think that I am pretty good about defusing flame wars and helping out newbies. But when people insult my intelligence or say blatantly offensive things to me, I see no reason to censor my words or reaction.
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