can we at least agree to quit pretending these incidents aren’t links in a chain of events that leads directly to the stubby-fingered inciter of racist powderkegs currently squatting in the White House...

if I’m reading that timestamp right you were only out by about a half-hour from being too late to have the “wait” part make sense...

what a way to greet a new day...can’t bring myself to star that but thanks for saving me from posting something similar...

fair enough...I suspect there’s a way, though...

I’m not posting it again but since definitely-not-an-executable-parasitic-entity seems to have taken his own advice to heart I commend to you the mad-libs version of that quote...my trump-specific variant is available at the link I just replied to myself with but anyone can play...

speaking of trolls...& ignoring & dismissing...

earned though that assessment undoubtedly is where the grudge-toting shitposter you’re referencing might be I feel compelled to unironically observe that there are some very fine people in the greys...

I’m unfashionably long-winded so I won’t post the whole thing again but since our executable friend appears to have dismissed it, you might consider the mad-libs version an homage to your pseudo-tweet...

there are undoubtedly a lot of them about & that may well be sound advice in a great many instances...in all honesty though it is advice I do with some frequency fail to heed & for that very reason I don’t court the loss of my membership of the “pending” fraternity...

if you’re familiar with the way these threads go & you read the grays you might appreciate the bit of my comment history that involved swapping 10,000-15,000 word posts a while back with what-would-kosh-do...

there’s a bunch of very well compensated lawyers & lobbyists you might be neglecting there...but your underlying point seems sound enough...

A machine gun is a weapon that fires multiple rounds with one trigger press. A semi auto fires one round with one trigger press. They are very different things. Anyone who says they are is either speaking from a position of ignorance, or are using scare tactics to advance their position.

that’s a nicely wrought re-write there & I kind of want to hit the star button to acknowledge the craftsmanship...but I made the mistake of thinking about it & the source material it’s derived from & now I find myself unaccountably reminded of something from an Eddie Izzard set...

you would think that they’d be able to avail themselves of at least some of the many options available to them that still don’t require the use of actual moderators...

I’ve been curious about that account...but if you’ve made your call I’m not in a position to argue it...

I originally left this as a reply to Longshot but they seem to have dismissed it (https://splinternews.com/1836937024) & others have answered that comment in more visible fashion...

I’d expect “the point of naming the place that sold the firearm” to be readily apparent...& in fact to be composed of several overlapping & interconnected points each of which is arguably worth making in their own right...including (but not limited to) hoping that such a connection would not advantage the business in…

I think the phrase I’m looking for is “don’t get me started” but yup, it surely is...

I don’t think you sound like a moron but, if you’ll permit the observation, your confusion is the core of the “feature” of Baracka’s approach to these threads that most bugs me...

smart kid, that...but then, in the words of Bill Hicks all kids are smarter than us & it’s easy to see why when you think about it...