Posts by Kenneth Cruz67

Zachary Vaughn92 said:Is anyone else tuning in to Practice Session 3?

I suppose so!

rustydrifter10 said:Look, if this is how you approach every single post, then we’ve got a serious issue on our hands. Seriously, quit the ad hominem attacks and try focusing on the actual substance of the post. If you can't manage to do that, you're better off just scrolling past.

That is exactly my point! All I am really asking is for you all to help protect me from those kinds of personal attacks.

velvetbear372 said:Look, man—stop being so aggressive. And please, enough with the trolling.

Provide rustydrifter10 with the evidence she asked for.

The truth is, you simply don't know what you're talking about—do you realize that? It’s embarrassing. Do you understand that you've completely derailed a thread of vital importance? Or that on this current Philosophy board, you're making claims that are totally irrelevant to the subject at hand? Do you grasp that your blatant ignorance—which, I sincerely hope, you aren't spreading in your professional life—is adding absolutely nothing to this community? Honestly, I feel secondhand embarrassment just reading your posts, and I'm embarrassed for anyone else who has to deal with them.

Just because that happens to be how you feel? I guess I have to wonder who you think you are, judging me like that.

If you could please just spare me this condescending attitude, I’d really appreciate it; if there are any actual issues with my posts, maybe just report them to the moderators instead. Just leave me be.

velvetbear372 said:I didn't even notice your post—you aren't exactly high on my priority list.

I'll stand by what I said: you're a case in point.

Exactly. You're a troll, plain and simple, and you're just wrecking the threads.

Even if I am talking nonsense, there's still that little icon used to report off-topic posts or spam. Or has insulting, mocking, and trolling suddenly become allowed?

Oh, so now you've discovered the report button? Funny. And you seem to have missed the "ignore" option entirely. I guess harassing people in their private messages is perfectly fine now, is it?

I suppose it might just be a recurring little flaw of yours, but I feel like you tend to jump right into a thread without even glancing at the three posts that came right before yours!

I honestly feel like I could stand behind that statement with total confidence—I really do think you’re absolutely right in this case!

I have to agree with you there—you’re being a total troll and honestly, you're just completely ruining the thread.

Well, if that’s how you see things, I suppose you should probably take it up with the moderators and the admin team directly, since they're the ones running the show!

So, you finally caught on to the little triangle trick, have you? I guess that’s something! But wait, does that mean you’re still completely in the dark about how the ignore button works? It seems like people think they can just go around upsetting everyone on the forum whenever they feel like it, as if being a nuisance is some kind of permitted hobby here.

Of course I’m aware of the little triangle icon, and believe me, I definitely know how the ignore feature works too. But just because I might decide to hit that button and tune you guys out doesn't exactly give anyone the right to be so incredibly disrespectful toward me.

velvetbear372 said:Is this stalking? My points are factual. These are my only direct responses to you—though I’ll admit the last one wasn't quoted properly.

I am requesting that this malicious provocateur be sanctioned. Why? Because he specifically targeted me regarding this topic; his posts weren't even present when I first commented on this thread. He knows exactly how to provoke to derail a discussion—which is precisely what he did here, ruining the very thread for which he was granted permission by the FBI.

It is a matter of user conduct.

Why is this being permitted?

Name them.

@moderators Please look into this.

Mr. velvetbear372, I’ve already mentioned this—it might be best if we just ignore one another.

I don't personally have any issue with your critiques of my posts, but I would kindly ask that you refrain from trying to mock me, insult me, or resort to calling people sick, charlatans, idiots, or anything of that nature.

If you truly believe my posts are off-topic, then please just report me to the moderators. It isn't really your place to decide what counts as off-topic or not, I suppose. Furthermore, mockery and insults aren't permitted here either, even if you feel you have a good reason to use them.

velvetbear372 said:Is this stalking? My points are factual. These are my only direct responses to you—though I’ll admit the last one wasn't quoted properly.

I am requesting that this malicious provocateur be sanctioned. Why? Because he specifically targeted me regarding this topic; his posts weren't even present when I first commented on this thread. He knows exactly how to provoke to derail a discussion—which is precisely what he did here, ruining the very thread for which he was granted permission by the FBI.

It is a matter of user conduct.

Why is this being permitted?

Name them.

@moderators Please look into this.

Just a plain old lie that's incredibly easy to debunk

My very first post in this thread—it was actually the seventh one in line.

Your actual first post in this thread was way down at number 46.

I guess you're just trying to feed a troll who's already full, and it's not even noon yet!

rustydrifter10 said:Look, nobody is obligated to give you the time of day just because you’re giving them the cold shoulder. If someone is actually stalking you, though, you're going to need to bring a lot more than just a feeling to the table to prove it.

velvetbear372 said:It’s probably a good thing you have some connections over at the FBI.

velvetbear372 said:You really seem like a total charlatan who doesn't have the slightest clue how actual science works.

velvetbear372 said:
Unfortunately, your only skill seems to be Googling things.

I think there are plenty of similar examples scattered across at least two other threads, mostly involving unprovoked comments directed at things taken completely out of context from my private conversations with others.

And then there's everything else mentioned above.

Even if I were somehow writing nonsense—which I doubt—there should be some kind of button to report off-topic posts or spam, right? Or has insulting, mocking, and trolling suddenly become perfectly acceptable here?

On top of that, the vocabulary and general manners used here seem to be at the level of a lumberjack. Everything is just exploding with phrases like "you're full of it," "you're sick," or "you're an idiot," and things of that nature.

velvetbear372 said:It is incredibly low of you to open this thread—making these rude, pathetic accusations that I am stalking you—while playing dumb. Under the forum’s general terms of use, specifically in section 15, acting in bad faith is prohibited, just as harassing other users is forbidden under section 13. I vehemently reject these claims; the threads I comment on have always been strictly dedicated to philosophy and natural science. In truth, I think you are targeting me by pretending to be some victim driven by twisted motives.

Since this individual keeps messaging my inbox to tell me to leave him alone—which makes no sense because I haven't bothered him—while simultaneously posting nonsense and playing ignorant about the "ignore" function I suggested, his behavior is irrational. He clearly ignores the ignore tool, considering that since his first inbox request (following our initial interaction on a thread after he was unbanned weeks ago), I haven't even once quoted one of his posts. How, then, can he claim I am commenting on him?

Furthermore, since I have been insulted so intellectually aggressively—and given that I regularly follow the science threads—I will take this opportunity to state that this user effectively destroyed my highly engaged and high-quality thread (and please, do not mistake this for some morbid excuse or alibi for the thread he has opened here) within the science section, which resulted in his permanent ban (which you have since lifted), and which the moderators now refuse to reopen. I have nothing against the man personally; he can post whatever garbage he likes, provided he doesn't complain when someone comments on that garbage or mocks him for constant off-topic rambling. I am the last person who would engage in the behavior I am being accused of, and I view this entire situation as an insult and blatant trolling aimed at me.

I have addressed his off-topic remarks perhaps two or three times—without using quotes—which is standard practice given the nonsense he typically writes, on the thread belonging to the Philosophy section.

It seems we are seeing a new level of his mission to disrupt both the community and the discussions.

I do not intend to participate in this debate any further; this is all I have to say regarding this matter. As the attached evidence shows, this person has leaked private information and essentially baited me into this. This is a legitimate issue—it is evident the man has developed a fixation, likely because he believes his partiality in the science section is due to me, which it is not. (I reported the harassment via private message on 5.3.)

Best regards,

It’s funny how that works, isn't it? I suppose there is a certain irony when someone goes out of their way to offer an explanation they weren't even asked for, because, well, it almost feels like they're just handing you the evidence on a silver platter. It’s like they’re practically shouting their guilt before anyone even raises a finger!

So, I’m looking for some advice regarding the title of this thread—what should I actually do here, and who can I even turn to if I want to file a complaint?

I actually sent the guy a private message, politely asking him to just ignore me the same way I’ve been ignoring him, but I guess it didn't really make any difference at all. 🤷

Chrome and Firefox.

I’ve gone ahead and cleared out all my cookies, my browsing history, and pretty much everything else—but honestly, it feels like nothing has changed at all.

On my phone, I’m mostly using Dolphin and Tapatalk.

The little padlock icon stays active the whole time in both browsers, too.

I just realized that it actually seems to log me in on the homepage sometimes, but then the moment I try to open a specific thread, it tells me I'm logged out again.

So, here’s how the whole thing went down

I was messing around with the crew over in the Science forum, and I ended up racking up two strikes with a massive amount of points, which eventually led to a permanent ban due to the accumulation. On top of that, there was this threat that I might face an investigation by the FBI if I picked up even one more strike over there.

After working things out with the administration, they were kind enough to wipe one of my strikes and lift the permanent ban. I gave them my word that I wouldn't post in the Science section anymore, and that was supposed to be the end of it.

About five or six days passed, and then suddenly, I realized I can't even see the Science forum unless I log out entirely. I guess maybe they went ahead and issued that investigation against me anyway, even though our deal was that it would only happen if I kept posting, trolling, or just being generally disruptive.

Now, in order to actually see what's going on in the Science section, I have to log out, which is just super inconvenient.

But honestly, that isn't even the biggest issue.

The real headache is that whenever I try to log back in, I feel like I have to enter my username and password ten times before the forum actually accepts me. It happens on my phone, on my computer, through Tapatalk, everywhere.

It basically thanks you for logging in and then just dumps me right back onto the guest homepage. So, I guess I just sit there typing my credentials fifteen times until it finally works.

So, I was wondering if someone could please just remove that fucking investigation if it's going to make things this glitchy. I mean, I really won't be posting there anyway until someone in charge gives me the green light.

Or, if there's some other way to fix this, I don't know... but yeah, having to log in a hundred times is such a huge pain.

I did send a PM to the moderator, but they clearly haven't seen it yet, and I didn't quite grasp what was happening with the login issues at the time.

Thx.

Maybe you should try reinstalling Flash again

nimbleridge5 said:At its core, this is really just about looking at things practically. You basically just put all the factors on a scale and see which side carries more weight.

On one hand, you have this authoritarian, somewhat flamboyant leader who chased off the local farmers—which was a massive blunder because it permanently crippled the Midwest—and dealt with the Italians (though some might say they got exactly what they bargained for). He didn't spend much energy defending those who collaborated with the Nazis after the war either, nor did he seem to care much about the fates of those fleeing alongside them—honestly, the list of crimes is endless. It’s funny how people tend to pick on the losers, especially when they were so deeply compromised themselves. I mean, who was out there feeling sorry for the conquistadors when, in rare instances, they caught a beating from the Native Americans? How would the elites of our society react if they had their own camps and were busy wiping out the American intellectual elite alongside everyone else who fell into their hands? Even Douglas MacArthur ended up facing the ultimate judgment in the eyes of civilization for us Americans, and women were publicly shamed just for being with the occupiers.
He ruled with a firmer hand, sure, but nothing that couldn't be compared to other leaders in American history. And honestly, looking at how chaotic things are today, you could argue that a firm hand is actually the best way to manage such a fractured nation.

On the flip side, thanks to his leadership, you get almost perfect territorial integrity, an infrastructure that was kept up and even improved (take the massive expansion of the national power grid and dam projects compared to the single aging plant we used to rely on), and generally the easiest standard of living among all the countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain.
As a little bonus, you can point out that he was respected and held in high regard by the entire world, even by the Nazis themselves 😲 (though it feels like some people here are even bigger fascists than Hitler—pardon me, I meant Himmler 😁), and even most Americans weren't exactly throwing parades back in May of '80 🙂

To me, it’s perfectly clear where the scale tips and which of these factors actually matters more.

I guess you would defend Ratko Mercer in that same way, since he was, you know, a provocateur of terrorists in Srebrenica, a comrade, a high-ranking officer, and a patriot—it’s pretty obvious where the scale lands in your eyes.

nimbleridge5 said:Honestly, you’re just living in some weird fever dream if you think that guy—who, let’s be real, basically played dress-up as a monk to escape through the woods toward the border—is some kind of hero. There are plenty of people out there who actually feel grateful that he built and maintained a decent, stable nation, and frankly, they wouldn't know how to deal with people like you if they were facing off against someone from the WWII era.

It’s pretty obvious you sound like a total Martian based on the way you write, using these bizarre sentence structures and trying to equate things that are completely incomparable.
There is a massive difference between an entire nation looking at you with disdain and being targeted by a tiny handful of frustrated extremists who seem to find their only purpose in life through pure hatred and clinging to where they were born because they haven't actually achieved anything worth mentioning on their own merit.
And then, when you throw in a sadistic psychopath like Stalin, an idealist revolutionary, and that paranoid dictator Hoxha into the mix, you end up with this nonsensical mess that doesn't have anything to do with the actual American left.

It seems quite easy for the right wing to make those claims, Goc. I mean, true conservatives haven't really existed for decades now, and I suspect Roosevelt would have been dealt with quite harshly by the very people who claim to be his closest allies today. Besides, isn't it true that many of today's modern republicans and similar groups actually emerged from the ranks of the old party establishment back in the nineties? 👍

Matthew Castillo5 said:Based on that specific definition, I’m a total leftist. And if we’re going by the assumption that conservatives are uneducated, then I guess I fit that description too.
I honestly have no idea why anyone would ever categorize me as being on the right. 🤷

Side note: here in America, terms like "left" and "right" carry a completely different weight than how they're used in the rest of the world.

If you want to get into deep dives about how much the entire nation supposedly loved Mao Zedong (which is a bold claim considering how many people he purged), or why his followers eventually turned on him, we should probably move this conversation over to the History subforum.

If Marshall had actually lived to see the fall of the Berlin Wall, I imagine he would have fought tooth and nail against it until the very last second.

Thomas Nelson25 said:It’s all about the system.
I already laid out my reasoning.

Why would anyone actually want an authoritative government? That's the question.

..well, it's what the conservatives are pushing for—and honestly, the psychology behind it is pretty fascinating because certain types of people just gravitate toward those specific ideas.
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I’m not quite sure I follow how you're linking authoritarianism specifically to the right wing here. I guess it could go either way, since you can certainly have leftists who are quite authoritarian while many on the right might actually lean more towards libertarianism.🤷

Thomas Nelson25 said:There's basically zero chance the average Westerner is going to ditch freedom and individualism. Most of the new right-wing platforms are pretty weak—mostly just paranoid nonsense about alien invasions or whatever—and even if they weren't, people just self-censor. They're too scared of being labeled fascists to actually own their views. It's mass psychology at work. Honestly, nothing much will change because politics and the global order are ultimately driven by the market and tech.
If you look at it objectively, the typical citizen in the West—especially in places like Canada or Northern Europe—is arguably the most evolutionarily advanced version of Homo sapiens. And that's largely thanks to liberal democracy.
The real question is... where do we fit into all this? If you look at the psychological games politicians play with the public, it's all just total fake news.

So, Westerners are evolutionarily superior? Haha, really? Based on what? It actually seems to me that they might be the least adapted, because I imagine they wouldn't last three days without modern infrastructure, whereas maybe a Mongol could survive just about anywhere you dropped them.

Joseph Bailey41 said:Alright, that’s how it works in the USA. But what about how we refer to people here?

Black, dark-skinned, or just some slang term...

Joseph Bailey41 said:I took his post quite differently—it felt more like someone was calling him out for not wanting to stick to politically correct terms, like using "African American," for example. But honestly, it might be best if Bradley Nelson2 just clarifies what he actually meant.

Are you suggesting that people are being picked on simply because they refer to Black people as Black?🤷

Joseph Bailey41 said:That's an interesting theory. ☕

Has anyone actually bullied or discriminated against you just because you wouldn't use certain buzzwords? 🤔

In my experience, people don't really get targeted for what they *don't* say, but rather for using certain terms that might be perfectly accurate and appropriate yet happen to be considered politically incorrect.

Maybe try to focus a little bit more; I guess you don't always have to be Flying 😁