Actually, this is either the second or third time that I've mentioned him having nothing to lose and plenty to gain from your attacks. How can you buy any of his narrative this hard? Sure it must come from somewhere, but the CP stuff is just him flexing his believed power over the forum. If the forum had a problem with foot fetish videos, you can damn well bet that that's what he'd be posting next. The problem is that your "painting him" isn't accomplishing anything at all. If anything, it's at your expense with no loss towards him whatsoever. It's lashing without thinking on tactics. If you want to make some sort of impact, try altering your game a bit and find some angle he isn't ready for.
Countering Jim's game plays out more like Wargames' "Global Thermonuclear War": "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
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I saw you floundering all over the place while others verbally gangbanged you with a cheering audience of ADD spaztiks.
Nothing new to me. I've had the same people and 3-4 others have a go at me all at once in the past. I am perfectly aware of the groupies here and I know going against one gets the whole associated flock against me. That's never stopped me from speaking up my mind though, and it's not going to, even if I have to renounce the "ego supply" I would have had by kissing their asses or holding my tongue.
I'd imagine that bandwagon conspiracy theory-crafting would make it easier to face what's being said than not, but it's a shame to see you resorting to that right now. Each have gone at you one at a time, and only found room to band together from having similar enough points to make.
They aren't together because of being a clique, they're together because of a mutual antagonism based on the subject matter, and the believed bias portrayed from who's delivering it. They all independently disagree with you, and happen to be fighting in tandem based on that feeling arising at the same time. Someone else attacking one of them isn't likely to cause the same level of teamwork, it's because of it being from you. They all had one unison point: hypocrisy and ego bias.
It's more like a pack of hyenas than a pack of wolves.
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I'd imagine that bandwagon conspiracy theory-crafting would make it easier to face what's being said than not, but it's a shame to see you resorting to that right now. Each have gone at you one at a time, and only found room to band together from having similar enough points to make.
They aren't together because of being a clique, they're together because of a mutual antagonism based on the subject matter, and the believed bias portrayed from who's delivering it. They all independently disagree with you, and happen to be fighting in tandem based on that feeling arising at the same time. Someone else attacking one of them isn't likely to cause the same level of teamwork, it's because of it being from you. They all had one unison point: hypocrisy and ego bias.
It's more like a pack of hyenas than a pack of wolves.
I am well aware of all this. I didn't mean bandwagon or groupthinking, I meant alliances. Each has their own personal reason to antagonize me, and that's fine. I know exactly which those are and I'm responsible for each one. Ofc they don't think the same and I'm the common target. For example Syst is obviously not crazy enough to buy into Sugar's "Xena is a pedophile" theory, but cowardly enough not to go against it since it suited him at the moment.