When I'm asked to pity someone who over the past year has called me a wanker, a sockpuppet, an evil ironist, the leader of a cabal, a collectivist, a warmonger, a defender of unprincipled murderers, L.W.M.'s lover, and I forget what all else, I get pissed.

Truth hurts?

You are all those things, so you better stay pissed; got enough booze? For one to defend Lyndon Banes Johnson and his god damn war on repeated occasions and then defend big-government to boot, you deserve a big portion of that list.

Bitch ain't it?

However, I think someone else called you an evil ironist; that word would not leap to my mind. You claimed often to love lwm's tactics here; but now you try to make it look like I made some low homosexual bigoted remark. Please add lair to your list.

Jebus what a whiner you are about the truth.

Bucky would be far from alone in that.

From my point of view it is exceedingly difficult to make oneself unambiguously understood. I find GG's prose very clear and yet he is constantly being misread, I see examples nearly every day.

Online communications are fraught with possibilities for miscommunications and misunderstandings. It just comes with the territory of written dialog which is not edited and seldom even proofread..

My own worst writing habit ...

-- Aycharaych

I think you miss the point, friend. Many here will aggressively misread your words and your intentions because you disagree with their world view in some way. I even have Kitt trying to find meaning in my using third person in a post. :-)

You are correct that it is really easy to misunderstand in this sort of forum. I am sent to meetings and seminars where we are told that 90 percent of communications happen non-verbally. I always thought that was way too high a number; but the fellow who teaches the Orlando Police Department negotiators claimed that in a recent meeting and he had impressive research to back it up.

However, many regulars here would rather fight the straw-man image they build than engage the words of the post.

I think you yourself have seen this on occasion.

After the usual insults to ones intelligence and claims of misquoting and so forth, we see:

Mostly, I have ignored him, while others have encouraged him by engaging him. Today, I singled him out because he decided to be snide with someone who does not deserve it, but would never push back.

Notice that he has left now?

-- Anonymust

I do not live here little sweetie. I do have to attend to other duties; I could not give your sweet little hissy-fits this much time if this was not a holiday week.

If you are going to continue to defend your newest hero from a 'snide attack' then get him to say he felt it was a snide attack. I meant no offense as I told you in two posts now. If he was offended, he will get a humble apology from me and I will touch my nose in humility.

Now, little twit, let us see you do your homework on the issue.

Apparently, Bucky has had enough women's lip today...

Notice that he responded to William again, but did not acknowledge my comment responding to his request for an example of "working politics and government," even though I posted my comment first.

And then... he announced he had to leave.

Or... perhaps he didn't really want a substantive answer, but just the opportunity to continue haranguing everyone with a question he didn't expect to be answered. Not the first time...

Keep up, the cabal all know that I do not do the late night shift. That is the best time to make a 'slime Bucky' post and not get a reply. Wait; maybe you did know that.

Your attempt was not even a half-hearted one. The American government has murdered millions of its own and most here would agree straight up that we do not have a government that has the interest of all the people as its purpose.

America! Give me a god damn break.

...while analyzing WWII that a great many combat troops never fired their weapon and that quite a large number of those who did never aimed at anything, choosing to release rounds at more or less random into the air. It's actually kind of difficult to get well adjusted, civilized humans to want to kill other people for what boils down to no real reason.

The military went about fixing that problem essentially by dehumanizing the enemy, there was a fair bit of that done in WWII but by the time of Vietnam the process of dehumanization was in full swing.

Now in Iraq we are seeing the harvest of that which we have sown. The comment about "no language, no culture, no civilization" was a telling one.. It obviously came from a troop who had been through the military dehumanization of the enemy process.

I have seen reports like this myself. Mankind can be very violent, but organized slaughter of the innocent on a scale that is difficult for the mind to comprehend takes a strong government. A big, strong government. The kind that the collectivists think will bring them good times and latte; but instead will enslave them. (think USA in last 7 years)

I have read reports by historians on the real 'wild, wild, west' and have discovered that the movies and TV shows about the west lied to me! Imagine that. Turns out the west before the government came was not all that violent; murder rate in some regions was less than Boston I think I read once.