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driftingdriver driftingdriver Active Member
62 messages
joined Jul 2010
#41 ·
@Gregory Howard: You’re sharp. 😉 It's hard to get rattled when you actually feel like you stand for something. A lot of people on Reddit just ignore the trolls because they already know the general rules of the platform by heart. It’s pretty obvious that the mods will step in and punish the trolls, and they'll certainly penalize anyone else breaking the rules too. The mods act as the police, while the admins function as the judges. I honestly don't see any issue with that setup.
driftingdriver driftingdriver Active Member
62 messages
joined Jul 2010
#42 ·
Jonathan Morales79 said:This time, I actually find myself agreeing with Phoenix... But seriously, what have you ever actually *done* with your life, besides just "talking" without saying anything at all? 😕

I still remember him as this dear, friendly debater... someone I actually enjoyed going toe-to-toe with. I have no clue what he's like as a moderator over on that former America sub—I rarely ever venture into those parts of Reddit—but back in the day, he was absolutely top-tier in the Politics section... truly excellent... 👍 🙏
Besides that... I've barely even been a moderator on the politics board for four months...

Too much... just way too much...
And I'm of the opinion that politics has actually improved... gotten a bit better, if you ask me... But that’s just me....

🤣 😂
A sad... seriously... 🙂 .

Does anyone actually remember a single post or thread they participated in where the topic didn't just absolutely implode... or where I didn't end up shutting the whole thing down for no reason (usually after I've scrubbed the specific posts that make my entire body of work look like a joke)... or where it didn't just spiral straight into the trash heap? 🤷

And there it is again—another dismissive post lacking any actual substance. It’s classic for the politics threads here on Reddit.
From what I can tell, you're from the West Coast, maybe even somewhere like San Francisco. Why don't you and I grab a coffee sometime and have a real conversation about politics? We'll see then if Musa is just blowing smoke.
Jonathan Morales79 Jonathan Morales79 Active Member
85 messages
joined Nov 2009
#43 ·
driftingdriver said:And there it is again—another dismissive post lacking any actual substance. It’s classic for the politics threads here on Reddit.
From what I can tell, you're from the West Coast, maybe even somewhere like San Francisco. Why don't you and I grab a coffee sometime and have a real conversation about politics? We'll see then if Musa is just blowing smoke.

Honestly, if someone actually understands the American language, they shouldn't even feel the need to provide extra explanations.
From what I can tell, you're from California—maybe even Split. Why don't you and I grab a coffee sometime and have a real, serious talk about politics?

I wouldn't sit down and discuss the sex lives of brainless amoebas with you, let alone politics, which requires an actual grasp of facts and coherent expression...

We'll see once Musa starts losing his mind.

No way, 😲 are you actually asking me to dance? 🙂
hollowwalker142 hollowwalker142 Active Member
100 messages
joined May 2009
#44 ·
driftingdriver said:And there it is again—another dismissive post lacking any actual substance. It’s classic for the politics threads here on Reddit.
From what I can tell, you're from the West Coast, maybe even somewhere like San Francisco. Why don't you and I grab a coffee sometime and have a real conversation about politics? We'll see then if Musa is just blowing smoke.

What's your deal? When I invited you for coffee, you couldn't even be bothered to reply,😢 but now you want to grab a drink with Jonathan Morales79 and act like you know everything.🤣
driftingdriver driftingdriver Active Member
62 messages
joined Jul 2010
#45 ·
hollowwalker142 said:What's your deal? When I invited you for coffee, you couldn't even be bothered to reply,😢 but now you want to grab a drink with Jonathan Morales79 and act like you know everything.🤣

Look, hollowwalker142, I wanted to publicly apologize for not getting back to you sooner. My bad. Work just completely swallowed me whole lately, and honestly, once you had already headed back home, it felt like there wasn't much point in trying to catch you up anyway.
Michael Sanders13 Michael Sanders13 Member
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joined Jul 2008
#46 ·
driftingdriver said:@Gregory Howard: You’re sharp. 😉 It's hard to get rattled when you actually feel like you stand for something. A lot of people on Reddit just ignore the trolls because they already know the general rules of the platform by heart. It’s pretty obvious that the mods will step in and punish the trolls, and they'll certainly penalize anyone else breaking the rules too. The mods act as the police, while the admins function as the judges. I honestly don't see any issue with that setup.

And by default, we’re the criminals being hunted by that police force, while the judiciary hands down verdicts without even opening the case.
An eye for an eye; if you keep acting like this, we have to act like this too.
How many more useless complications need to happen before someone realizes the Men in Black aren't sacred cows? They’re just people who make mistakes, just like the rest of us mortals.
Don't be surprised, driftingdriver, that the people complaining here aren't posting in your subforum. There's nothing smart left to say; everything has already been said. The truth has been known for a long time, though sometimes someone has to say it publicly (the defenders and such are those who aren't above it, and I'm not fond of profanity).
Still, this is a top-tier site, and despite everything, it remains the number one forum for Americans.
It might be true, but it isn't fair. If you're from Canada, you know how they say it over there: not even close.
Once, it was said: let there be light... and there was light.
Under the heavens, we are all in the same mess, and there's no need to act superior to everyone else.
driftingdriver driftingdriver Active Member
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joined Jul 2010
#47 ·
Sure, the mods make mistakes, but they’re genuinely trying to ensure this thread remains a decent space for the bulk of the community rather than just a private playground for those running the show. As I mentioned before, I’ve set this somewhat daunting mission for myself: to encourage the majority of users here to actually take an interest in politics. When I mess up, I’ve never had any issue with offering a public apology. After all, who doesn't slip up now and then? And the more someone errs, the more they tend to refine their craft. The police have that "serve and protect" mantra, right? By that logic, the mods exist to serve the users and protect those who actually need it, and they do so voluntarily. In a perfect world, the users would support the mods, but here, it seems the practice is flipped on its head, with most people just making their jobs harder. The reality is that most users are just part of that silent majority, the type who wouldn't even bother showing up to a
topic like this.
James Fowler52 James Fowler52 Member
20 messages
joined Jan 2010
#48 ·
Gregory Howard said:Of course, I’m not the one making the calls—I’m not a mod, for heaven's sake. But I am absolutely entitled to judge. So what? A person should be allowed to have a critical perspective, shouldn't they?

The core issue is that the mods lack any real grasp of basic etiquette. It’s a glaring embarrassment that keeps popping up. They also completely fail to understand nuance when deciding what should be allowed. On the more liberal threads, you see profanity and insults flying around without anyone batting an eye. Honestly, if you want a deep dive on how vulgarity functions in language, go read that brilliant Ladanov piece. As far as expression goes, no sane person finds vulgarity, coarseness, or insults acceptable.

Not on my watch!

It’s a classic scenario: some agitator starts talking absolute nonsense, rambling on and on... and then someone finally tells them exactly where to shove it. Here is how you handle it:

You ban the guy who calls them out, while the provocateur gets a free pass. Typical.

You’re essentially carding and banning both of them.

Labels don't matter here. If someone is attacked and they end up killing their assailant, they get acquitted—provided they didn't overstep the bounds of self-defense. In those kinds of scenarios, the provocateurs and the total jerks on this Reddit thread should be the ones kicked out. The person who was pushed to that point at 3 PM shouldn't face any punishment at all.

And even you guys completely missed the mark on this one. You totally missed the entire field.

The moderators in the politics section are simply enforcing the rules. And that’s that. If the rules were changed to match your specific way of talking, then the mods wouldn't be breathing down your neck over your choice of words. I didn't write the rules. But I have to follow them. Without rules, you just get voluntarism, improvisation, anarchy, and pure chaos.

Give me a break. Those are nothing more than excuses straight out of Mauthausen or Auschwitz.

You basically just hit the nail on the head regarding the biggest issue on this entire site. That’s exactly why I always say a mod needs to actually know their stuff. They need to be able to spot when someone is building a discussion on a foundation of lies, or when they're feeding people fake data and dodging the actual point just to troll with some made-up, inaccurate nonsense just to get a reaction.
And honestly, that’s where the whole lack of expertise issue comes from.

That being said, I think driftingdriver is pretty solid when it comes to American politics. 👍
Sarah Wilson95 Sarah Wilson95 RegularOP
267 messages
joined Sep 2006
#49 ·
Jerry Garcia said:Two separate threads merged here because they share the exact same premise: complaining about how the politics mods do their jobs.

Regarding the Napoleon situation, the ban was lifted, but the thread stayed closed BECAUSE IT WAS PROVOCATIVE. It was designed specifically to trigger a fight, not because discussing the cross is forbidden.

As for the second question, politics moderators aren't perfect. No moderator is. To become a mod, you have to be someone recognized for being able to articulate a clear perspective. You can't expect politics mods to be people who don't have defined opinions on a given topic or situation.
The former America subforum was created because most users posting from the US—who honestly couldn't care less about what's happening in Mexico or Canada—were getting annoyed seeing those topics cluttering the main politics front page. Now, those discussions have their own dedicated space, and anyone uninterested doesn't even have to notice they exist. As a regular visitor to the politics section, I think the former America subforum has served its purpose perfectly.

Provocateurs of all stripes get penalized and deleted every single day. If you're looking for it, you'll see it. But the fact remains that some things slip through unnoticed too. That's actually a good thing...😉

They’ve been merged because you can basically do whatever you want here—editing, deleting, merging, or just imposing your own interpretation on things,
so why on earth would anyone bother respecting someone else's time or the massive effort it takes to write something out? Honestly, come on... the only real point of all this seems to be punishment..

Moving on,
I didn't start this particular thread, and I really don't want my username attached to it as the initiator, nor do I want my posts linked to it. Is that understood?

My original topic was actually about the completely nonsensical reaction from mod Alb last night—specifically regarding the explanation he gave for closing a certain thread, which, frankly, wasn't any more reasonable than many other discussions found under Politics.

Mentioning those criteria in the opening sentence was meant to be a simple, blunt question: "How on earth did this guy become a mod?" I can't recall his legendary contributions to the Politics section; I've been around for years, so how did His Excellency suddenly ascend to such a position? And then the guy completely loses it, offering explanations so absurd you can hardly believe what you're reading... and he just keeps going... I'd bet anything he actually thinks that person was somehow trying to let's ban the cross😁

Reddit handled it magnificently, though—the wolf is fed and the sheep are still plenty; they stripped that guy of his ban, yet there was no clear message from that clumsy moderator that he had perhaps overstepped a bit too far.
🙂
driftingdriver driftingdriver Active Member
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joined Jul 2010
#50 ·
And besides, not everyone is going to be as charming, brilliant, and sharp as you are. The toughest guys I know are the ones who flex both their mental and physical muscles in this digital world, acting so incredibly arrogant it actually hurts to watch. I’m fairly certain that in the real world, you carry yourself and mutter under your breath in a completely different way.
Of course, we’re back to the same old routine—zero facts, pure condescension, all aimed at discrediting someone else just to elevate yourself. But honestly, that says much more about you than it does about me.
Epochal posts like these are usually penned by those self-appointed members of the political elite who fancy themselves enlightened champions of ecumenism and the working class; they are the apologists who view themselves as the ruling class, the ego-trippers and narcissists who think they can dictate exactly how we, the mere amateurs, should think, while we sit there in awe of their supposed eloquence, clarity, and, above all, the biting wit of their intellect.
These kinds of elitists arrogantly rule in the name of the voters—us, the political dilettantes and the masses desperately crying out for a messiah, some political savior who will point the way for us sheep to follow.

We, the sheep, are the very foundation of this society, fighting just to keep our families afloat, and we certainly haven't earned the right to hand out red cards to our supposed saviors.
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mistycyclist5 mistycyclist5 Active Member
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joined Jul 2010
#51 ·
Can we please just stop the coordinated attacks on driftingdriver already? The guy is simply doing his job, plain and simple. If you can't handle his moderation style, there are plenty of other subreddits out there for you... honestly, you guys are being as annoying as a bunch of hens just clucking away incessantly. If you’d all just cut down on the spamming and this mindless garbage, the mods wouldn't have such a hard time, and they might actually be a bit more lenient toward you.

Anyway, that's my two cents. 😉
mistycyclist5 mistycyclist5 Active Member
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joined Jul 2010
#52 ·
Higgs said:I just hope this supposedly "constructive" post was actually logged by the higher-ups, because at this rate, we might actually see your username showing up under "Moderators" pretty soon.

First off, I’ve got way too many strikes on my record to ever be a moderator.

Look, driftingdriver and I don't exactly see eye-to-eye when it comes to politics, but it seems like everyone here is out to get him. It’s funny how you all stay dead silent whenever one of you messes up, only to move right along like nothing happened.
Jonathan Morales79 Jonathan Morales79 Active Member
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joined Nov 2009
#53 ·
driftingdriver said:Sure, the mods make mistakes, but they’re genuinely trying to ensure this thread remains a decent space for the bulk of the community rather than just a private playground for those running the show. As I mentioned before, I’ve set this somewhat daunting mission for myself: to encourage the majority of users here to actually take an interest in politics. When I mess up, I’ve never had any issue with offering a public apology. After all, who doesn't slip up now and then? And the more someone errs, the more they tend to refine their craft. The police have that "serve and protect" mantra, right? By that logic, the mods exist to serve the users and protect those who actually need it, and they do so voluntarily. In a perfect world, the users would support the mods, but here, it seems the practice is flipped on its head, with most people just making their jobs harder. The reality is that most users are just part of that silent majority, the type who wouldn't even bother showing up to a
topic like this.

While the smart folks out there are busy following advice to think twice before they act... you really ought to take my advice and wash your hands after you're done jerking off. 🙂

Look, it isn't just me... it’s almost the entire audience on the politics subreddit that's fed up. Everyone is complaining about how you just babble incessantly, stomping all over the PDF Politics section like you own the place... It’s exhausting. Because of your constant nonsense, the actual productive, contributing members can't even get a word in edgewise. There is honestly zero point in providing any quality material when you're just standing there like some voyeur, lurking and staring at everything we write... it's pointless... From the bushes... Just so you don't end up clashing with someone who actually has an opinion... or, I suppose, so you can brag about it down at the local hardware store...

Because you’re constantly in such a massive rage, you start babbling... which leads you right into those ridiculous constructions like:

driftingdriver said:Because the topic is just completely trivial... nothing more, nothing less...
Because at the end of the day, the United States is an absolute powerhouse... there is simply no questioning its status today. It's just a fact... undisputed.
Because topics that fuel racial or nationalistic animosity are inherently combative at their very core... they serve no purpose other than to fan the flames of hatred...
Because that’s exactly what the police, the justice system, and our educational institutions are supposed to be handling... they're the ones tasked with dealing with this kind of stuff...
Our... I don't even know where to begin with this... discretion? Is that what we're calling it now? It’s all just a facade... a complete and utter charade designed to keep us in the dark while everything shifts beneath our feet... Honestly, the lack of transparency is staggering... absolutely staggering... If people actually understood the implications of what's being hidden, there would be an uproar on every street corner from New York to Los Angeles... but no... everyone just stays quiet... follows the script... like sheep... It’s maddening... truly maddening...That's it? Just... that? Really? One word? A single, lonely syllable floating in the void like a lost soul in a blizzard... It’s almost insulting, isn't it? I sit here, ready to engage, ready to dissect, ready to plunge into the depths of a real debate, and all I get is this... this nothingness... This lack of substance is exactly what's wrong with everything these days... No context, no direction, just a void where an argument should be... Just... wow... Right... It really is up to the editor to decide where the topic belongs... honestly...

Discretion... discretion... Hmmm... 😕 What language even is that? I'm gonna go rent one... translator...🙄

Here in America, we have... Discretionary... or whatever you want to call it... if we're even talking about the same thing anymore... everything is just so out in the open now... nothing is private... none of it... That's true, but it also comes with certain obligations...

Discretion... Latin (*discretus*, the past participle of *discernere*)... which essentially means to discern, to distinguish, to perceive, to differentiate... It implies meanings such as:
analysis...
2) discernment...
3) logic...
4) Perceptiveness... that rare, chivalrous quality... a truly noble trait in this day and age...
....
Discretionary authority... it’s essentially the power granted to those in charge—the authorized ones—to make their own calls... you know? Within a specific set of boundaries, they get to step in and deliver decisive, qualitative solutions based on their own judgment. It's all about that leeway... if they have it...

If the decision-maker lacks at least the qualities mentioned above, they simply don't possess the characteristics of a discretionary administrator... because they lack any capacity for discernment, nor are they prudent or perceptive...
So, then what exactly are we looking at here? What does that even mean in this context...? 😁


Discretionary rights only apply to those who actually qualify... if they even can be considered worthy... though I doubt many people today understand what that truly means... Mandatory... absolutely mandatory... if we don't stick to the rules, what is even the point? Everything falls apart... just chaos... everything! Before that...
Just to keep things simple... I’ll just list a few key factors here... obligated to...:
He possesses potential... intelligence, if you can even call it that...
He studies... he gathers all that relevant material and data... constantly digging through it all...
...developing communication skills... honestly, it's about time... if only people actually tried...
4) Suspect... just suspicious... everything about this feels off... As a method, it relies on the fermentation of previous biases and facts, which is just inherent to a person like that... because proclaimed truths always need to be—even after the fact—subject to constant questioning, right up until their importance becomes absolutely nothing and the whole purpose of those facts becomes utterly worthless... pay close attention to...
And then what? After that... what happens next?(all within the same sentence).

This... this is finally it. This is the very essence of life itself, and honestly, the core of every single debate we've ever had through the ages... through the millennia...
,..., century...,..., Paradigms... everything is just shifting... paradigms everywhere... it’s all changing so fast, you can barely catch your breath... one minute you think you understand the rules of the game, then—boom—the entire foundation shifts under your feet... like how they used to teach us things in school, thinking those old frameworks were set in stone, only to realize they were just temporary structures built on sand... It's constant... the way people view reality, the way we structure our very thoughts... it's all just layers of perception being stripped away... sometimes I wonder if there was ever a "true" paradigm, or if we're just constantly rearranging the furniture in an empty room... it's exhausting, really... just endless, swirling shifts...,..., Those tomato-themed platitudes... just absolute nonsense... purely superficial... nothing more than empty slogans meant to distract us from the actual substance of the debate... honestly... it's exhausting...,..., So, yeah... just those kinds of more or less random occurrences...

But then again... you aren't making any mistakes here.
You... you are nothing more than a walking, breathing personification of an error... just a glitch in the system, a total breakdown of logic! It’s absolutely absurd... how can one entity embody such pure, unadulterated chaos? It’s like looking at a corrupted file, a complete mess that shouldn't even exist in a rational world... just senseless, chaotic nonsense... ...In its own right... strictly speaking... if you even want to get technical about it... though why anyone would bother with such pedantic distinctions in this day and age is beyond me... truly....

It’s just... how His Holiness Pope John Paul II managed to express such profound regret and true repentance for all the evils committed—both within the Catholic Church itself and under the very symbol of the cross... it was remarkable. It truly showed the inherent strength of the Catholic Church... the sheer power behind it... Who exactly is being harmed by this whole meltdown over the misuse of symbols? Who is actually losing out here...? 😁

I really wish that topic our firebrand debater, Revka, is harping on would have stayed open for a heated showdown... If only... Then we could actually step up and engage in a fair duel of facts and logic... A real clash...
Finally... if the debate isn't heated or stirring up some kind of drama, why even bother wasting my precious time on Reddit? And don't even get me started on that one absolute menace who’s always lurking there, making everything worse... you know exactly who I mean... the one whose entire existence seems built on nothing but totalitarian nonsense... Thinking... 😵I'm sorry, I didn't catch that... you only sent "i"... Is there something you wanted to discuss? A specific topic on Reddit? Or perhaps some political nonsense... I'm waiting...
Interventions... always with these interventions... everywhere you look, someone is stepping in where they don't belong! It’s constant! Just when you think things might settle down, another hand reaches out to meddle... to disrupt... to force some kind of "correction" on everything we know... It’s exhausting... truly exhausting... And for what? For what purpose?! There's no logic to it, just chaos masked as order... pure, unadulterated interference... That guy... he’s the one. That absolute, shameless parasite whose very name makes my skin crawl just thinking about it... so I’ll just call him this, even if it makes me sick... I don't even know where to begin with this... just absolute madness... everything feels like it's spiraling... out of control... honestly, I'm just lost for words at this point....
And besides, Jonathan Morales79—as a digital debater—isn't going to hang out in a dive bar like this... not because it’s filthy, mind you, but simply because it's shallow... just incredibly shallow...
Such lukewarm discussions that are just... pathetic... Scumbags... absolute scumbags... That so-called guy... he just does it everywhere... everything he touches... Editor 🤣 So, based on what he actually admitted himself... The impact... the sheer weight of it all... it’s just... how can anyone ignore the actual effect this has on everything? It’s not just some abstract theory! It's the reality hitting us right in the face... the way things shift once the gears start turning... it changes the entire landscape... nothing stays the same once the momentum takes hold... absolutely nothing... So... how? Just... how? Police officer... just typical... nothing but trouble...

driftingdriver said:@Gregory Howard: You’re sharp. 😉 It's hard to get rattled when you actually feel like you stand for something. A lot of people on Reddit just ignore the trolls because they already know the general rules of the platform by heart. It’s pretty obvious that the mods will step in and punish the trolls, and they'll certainly penalize anyone else breaking the rules too. The mods act as the police, while the admins function as the judges. I honestly don't see any issue with that setup.

😵 🙂

I’ve been saying it for the longest time... Lješinar is nothing more than the most disastrous, failed experiment of PDF Politics. By masquerading under some fake guise of editorial discretion—when in reality it's just slaughtering discourse—this lunatic, through his mindless babbling and silent interventions, is suffocating the very last breath of any meaningful debate. He sits there, wrapped up in this totalitarian little cocoon of poorly constructed, half-baked phrases that even a dog wouldn't bother sniffing... using them to let these commissar-types arrogantly proclaim themselves as sancta sanctorum. He tries to sanctify certain topics based on Bolshevik-collectivist totalitarian visions that only he and a handful of fringe psychoanalysts could ever dream up. So why even have discussions that merely serve this nuisance? His pathetic, rare posts reveal nothing but the rusted nail of a decaying mind... and I spend fifteen or more hours every single day staring at this mess. Why must he continue to pollute the innocent, if somewhat cluttered, pages of PDF Politics???

This outcry, like all the futile cries against this lost cause of a so-called editor😉 , is directed at the things I am forced to witness—not by my own choice—whenever I happen to stumble back upon this ruined dumping ground.
How much longer?
mistycyclist5 mistycyclist5 Active Member
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joined Jul 2010
#54 ·
hollowwalker142 said:Don't sweat it, this isn't exactly a new trick for him—he's already got plenty of practice in this area. I mean, hey, at least the guy is actually putting in the effort.😁

Are you serious right now? Is that really how you're coming at me? 😁

Look, let's stop trolling for a second and actually say something constructive.😁
Dana Reed4 Dana Reed4 Newcomer
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joined Sep 2008
#55 ·
driftingdriver And just imagine, if only by some strange twist of fate, what might have happened if the topic had been about the Red Star instead of this ongoing crisis? I suppose things could have taken a completely different turn, though I can't say for certain.
mistycyclist5 mistycyclist5 Active Member
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joined Jul 2010
#56 ·
Dana Reed4 said:driftingdriver And just imagine, if only by some strange twist of fate, what might have happened if the topic had been about the Red Star instead of this ongoing crisis? I suppose things could have taken a completely different turn, though I can't say for certain.

If we actually had a real democracy here, nobody would be getting shut down; people would just be allowed to argue based on actual arguments.

🙏🤣🙏
mistycyclist5 mistycyclist5 Active Member
63 messages
joined Jul 2010
#57 ·
Higgs said:I’d much rather spend my time arguing with you than with your arguments.
With logic, obviously.

Look, I’m not trying to troll; I already got banned for that once.🙏

If there's anything else you want to know, just shoot me a PM.😉
Gregory Howard Gregory Howard Active Member
144 messages
joined Dec 2009
#58 ·
As expected, this thread has devolved into a foggy mess of petty bickering. Instead of creating a genuine opportunity to scrutinize specific decisions, we get nothing. Someone might argue there’s a "corner for the banned." No—that is merely a formality that carries zero weight regarding the actual facts of the situation. That PDF should have been used to demonstrate that the mods are incompetent, prone to error, and prone to double standards—which, frankly, is just part of being human.

It is perfectly typical that they cannot admit their own mistakes. They cling to authority solely because of their titles, lacking the logical capacity to see where they went wrong, let alone the character to reverse a decision. True, there have been exceptions, but they are microscopic. This isn't due to any remarkable accuracy on the part of the mods; it’s driven by pure ego, stubbornness, and arrogance. And to a greater extent, by a bureaucratic obsession with fine print that prevents them from seeing the forest for the trees, even if they wanted to.

This is the root cause, among other things, of not just individual bans, but the constant blocking of certain users who haven't earned it—people like Tozovac and Joe Enter. It is easy to hide behind the rulebook. We all know how it works.
driftingdriver driftingdriver Active Member
62 messages
joined Jul 2010
#59 ·
Jonathan Morales79 said:While the smart folks out there are busy following advice to think twice before they act... you really ought to take my advice and wash your hands after you're done jerking off. 🙂

Look, it isn't just me... it’s almost the entire audience on the politics subreddit that's fed up. Everyone is complaining about how you just babble incessantly, stomping all over the PDF Politics section like you own the place... It’s exhausting. Because of your constant nonsense, the actual productive, contributing members can't even get a word in edgewise. There is honestly zero point in providing any quality material when you're just standing there like some voyeur, lurking and staring at everything we write... it's pointless... From the bushes... Just so you don't end up clashing with someone who actually has an opinion... or, I suppose, so you can brag about it down at the local hardware store...

Because you’re constantly in such a massive rage, you start babbling... which leads you right into those ridiculous constructions like:

Discretion... discretion... Hmmm... 😕 What language even is that? I'm gonna go rent one... translator...🙄

Here in America, we have... Discretionary... or whatever you want to call it... if we're even talking about the same thing anymore... everything is just so out in the open now... nothing is private... none of it... That's true, but it also comes with certain obligations...

Discretion... Latin (*discretus*, the past participle of *discernere*)... which essentially means to discern, to distinguish, to perceive, to differentiate... It implies meanings such as:
analysis...
2) discernment...
3) logic...
4) Perceptiveness... that rare, chivalrous quality... a truly noble trait in this day and age...
....
Discretionary authority... it’s essentially the power granted to those in charge—the authorized ones—to make their own calls... you know? Within a specific set of boundaries, they get to step in and deliver decisive, qualitative solutions based on their own judgment. It's all about that leeway... if they have it...

If the decision-maker lacks at least the qualities mentioned above, they simply don't possess the characteristics of a discretionary administrator... because they lack any capacity for discernment, nor are they prudent or perceptive...
So, then what exactly are we looking at here? What does that even mean in this context...? 😁


Discretionary rights only apply to those who actually qualify... if they even can be considered worthy... though I doubt many people today understand what that truly means... Mandatory... absolutely mandatory... if we don't stick to the rules, what is even the point? Everything falls apart... just chaos... everything! Before that...
Just to keep things simple... I’ll just list a few key factors here... obligated to...:
He possesses potential... intelligence, if you can even call it that...
He studies... he gathers all that relevant material and data... constantly digging through it all...
...developing communication skills... honestly, it's about time... if only people actually tried...
4) Suspect... just suspicious... everything about this feels off... As a method, it relies on the fermentation of previous biases and facts, which is just inherent to a person like that... because proclaimed truths always need to be—even after the fact—subject to constant questioning, right up until their importance becomes absolutely nothing and the whole purpose of those facts becomes utterly worthless... pay close attention to...
And then what? After that... what happens next?(all within the same sentence).

This... this is finally it. This is the very essence of life itself, and honestly, the core of every single debate we've ever had through the ages... through the millennia...
,..., century...,..., Paradigms... everything is just shifting... paradigms everywhere... it’s all changing so fast, you can barely catch your breath... one minute you think you understand the rules of the game, then—boom—the entire foundation shifts under your feet... like how they used to teach us things in school, thinking those old frameworks were set in stone, only to realize they were just temporary structures built on sand... It's constant... the way people view reality, the way we structure our very thoughts... it's all just layers of perception being stripped away... sometimes I wonder if there was ever a "true" paradigm, or if we're just constantly rearranging the furniture in an empty room... it's exhausting, really... just endless, swirling shifts...,..., Those tomato-themed platitudes... just absolute nonsense... purely superficial... nothing more than empty slogans meant to distract us from the actual substance of the debate... honestly... it's exhausting...,..., So, yeah... just those kinds of more or less random occurrences...

But then again... you aren't making any mistakes here.
You... you are nothing more than a walking, breathing personification of an error... just a glitch in the system, a total breakdown of logic! It’s absolutely absurd... how can one entity embody such pure, unadulterated chaos? It’s like looking at a corrupted file, a complete mess that shouldn't even exist in a rational world... just senseless, chaotic nonsense... ...In its own right... strictly speaking... if you even want to get technical about it... though why anyone would bother with such pedantic distinctions in this day and age is beyond me... truly....

It’s just... how His Holiness Pope John Paul II managed to express such profound regret and true repentance for all the evils committed—both within the Catholic Church itself and under the very symbol of the cross... it was remarkable. It truly showed the inherent strength of the Catholic Church... the sheer power behind it... Who exactly is being harmed by this whole meltdown over the misuse of symbols? Who is actually losing out here...? 😁

I really wish that topic our firebrand debater, Revka, is harping on would have stayed open for a heated showdown... If only... Then we could actually step up and engage in a fair duel of facts and logic... A real clash...
Finally... if the debate isn't heated or stirring up some kind of drama, why even bother wasting my precious time on Reddit? And don't even get me started on that one absolute menace who’s always lurking there, making everything worse... you know exactly who I mean... the one whose entire existence seems built on nothing but totalitarian nonsense... Thinking... 😵I'm sorry, I didn't catch that... you only sent "i"... Is there something you wanted to discuss? A specific topic on Reddit? Or perhaps some political nonsense... I'm waiting...
Interventions... always with these interventions... everywhere you look, someone is stepping in where they don't belong! It’s constant! Just when you think things might settle down, another hand reaches out to meddle... to disrupt... to force some kind of "correction" on everything we know... It’s exhausting... truly exhausting... And for what? For what purpose?! There's no logic to it, just chaos masked as order... pure, unadulterated interference... That guy... he’s the one. That absolute, shameless parasite whose very name makes my skin crawl just thinking about it... so I’ll just call him this, even if it makes me sick... I don't even know where to begin with this... just absolute madness... everything feels like it's spiraling... out of control... honestly, I'm just lost for words at this point....
And besides, Jonathan Morales79—as a digital debater—isn't going to hang out in a dive bar like this... not because it’s filthy, mind you, but simply because it's shallow... just incredibly shallow...
Such lukewarm discussions that are just... pathetic... Scumbags... absolute scumbags... That so-called guy... he just does it everywhere... everything he touches... Editor 🤣 So, based on what he actually admitted himself... The impact... the sheer weight of it all... it’s just... how can anyone ignore the actual effect this has on everything? It’s not just some abstract theory! It's the reality hitting us right in the face... the way things shift once the gears start turning... it changes the entire landscape... nothing stays the same once the momentum takes hold... absolutely nothing... So... how? Just... how? Police officer... just typical... nothing but trouble...


😵 🙂

I’ve been saying it for the longest time... Lješinar is nothing more than the most disastrous, failed experiment of PDF Politics. By masquerading under some fake guise of editorial discretion—when in reality it's just slaughtering discourse—this lunatic, through his mindless babbling and silent interventions, is suffocating the very last breath of any meaningful debate. He sits there, wrapped up in this totalitarian little cocoon of poorly constructed, half-baked phrases that even a dog wouldn't bother sniffing... using them to let these commissar-types arrogantly proclaim themselves as sancta sanctorum. He tries to sanctify certain topics based on Bolshevik-collectivist totalitarian visions that only he and a handful of fringe psychoanalysts could ever dream up. So why even have discussions that merely serve this nuisance? His pathetic, rare posts reveal nothing but the rusted nail of a decaying mind... and I spend fifteen or more hours every single day staring at this mess. Why must he continue to pollute the innocent, if somewhat cluttered, pages of PDF Politics???

This outcry, like all the futile cries against this lost cause of a so-called editor😉 , is directed at the things I am forced to witness—not by my own choice—whenever I happen to stumble back upon this ruined dumping ground.
How much longer?

- So, I’m the idiot. Thanks for the compliment and the respect shown to your interlocutor. Since you clearly possess such immense wisdom, shouldn't you be able to grasp the point and respond with a few punchy sentences without preaching? Especially when you hold yourself in such self-proclaimed superiority over us "inferior" amateurs who apparently have absolutely no clue about politics, neither in our writings nor our thoughts.

Jonathan Morales79 said:While the smart folks out there are busy following advice to think twice before they act... you really ought to take my advice and wash your hands after you're done jerking off. 🙂

Look, it isn't just me... it’s almost the entire audience on the politics subreddit that's fed up. Everyone is complaining about how you just babble incessantly, stomping all over the PDF Politics section like you own the place... It’s exhausting. Because of your constant nonsense, the actual productive, contributing members can't even get a word in edgewise. There is honestly zero point in providing any quality material when you're just standing there like some voyeur, lurking and staring at everything we write... it's pointless... From the bushes... Just so you don't end up clashing with someone who actually has an opinion... or, I suppose, so you can brag about it down at the local hardware store...

Because you’re constantly in such a massive rage, you start babbling... which leads you right into those ridiculous constructions like:

Discretion... discretion... Hmmm... 😕 What language even is that? I'm gonna go rent one... translator...🙄

Here in America, we have... Discretionary... or whatever you want to call it... if we're even talking about the same thing anymore... everything is just so out in the open now... nothing is private... none of it... That's true, but it also comes with certain obligations...

Discretion... Latin (*discretus*, the past participle of *discernere*)... which essentially means to discern, to distinguish, to perceive, to differentiate... It implies meanings such as:
analysis...
2) discernment...
3) logic...
4) Perceptiveness... that rare, chivalrous quality... a truly noble trait in this day and age...
....
Discretionary authority... it’s essentially the power granted to those in charge—the authorized ones—to make their own calls... you know? Within a specific set of boundaries, they get to step in and deliver decisive, qualitative solutions based on their own judgment. It's all about that leeway... if they have it...

If the decision-maker lacks at least the qualities mentioned above, they simply don't possess the characteristics of a discretionary administrator... because they lack any capacity for discernment, nor are they prudent or perceptive...
So, then what exactly are we looking at here? What does that even mean in this context...? 😁


Discretionary rights only apply to those who actually qualify... if they even can be considered worthy... though I doubt many people today understand what that truly means... Mandatory... absolutely mandatory... if we don't stick to the rules, what is even the point? Everything falls apart... just chaos... everything! Before that...
Just to keep things simple... I’ll just list a few key factors here... obligated to...:
He possesses potential... intelligence, if you can even call it that...
He studies... he gathers all that relevant material and data... constantly digging through it all...
...developing communication skills... honestly, it's about time... if only people actually tried...
4) Suspect... just suspicious... everything about this feels off... As a method, it relies on the fermentation of previous biases and facts, which is just inherent to a person like that... because proclaimed truths always need to be—even after the fact—subject to constant questioning, right up until their importance becomes absolutely nothing and the whole purpose of those facts becomes utterly worthless... pay close attention to...
And then what? After that... what happens next?(all within the same sentence).

This... this is finally it. This is the very essence of life itself, and honestly, the core of every single debate we've ever had through the ages... through the millennia...
,..., century...,..., Paradigms... everything is just shifting... paradigms everywhere... it’s all changing so fast, you can barely catch your breath... one minute you think you understand the rules of the game, then—boom—the entire foundation shifts under your feet... like how they used to teach us things in school, thinking those old frameworks were set in stone, only to realize they were just temporary structures built on sand... It's constant... the way people view reality, the way we structure our very thoughts... it's all just layers of perception being stripped away... sometimes I wonder if there was ever a "true" paradigm, or if we're just constantly rearranging the furniture in an empty room... it's exhausting, really... just endless, swirling shifts...,..., Those tomato-themed platitudes... just absolute nonsense... purely superficial... nothing more than empty slogans meant to distract us from the actual substance of the debate... honestly... it's exhausting...,..., So, yeah... just those kinds of more or less random occurrences...

But then again... you aren't making any mistakes here.
You... you are nothing more than a walking, breathing personification of an error... just a glitch in the system, a total breakdown of logic! It’s absolutely absurd... how can one entity embody such pure, unadulterated chaos? It’s like looking at a corrupted file, a complete mess that shouldn't even exist in a rational world... just senseless, chaotic nonsense... ...In its own right... strictly speaking... if you even want to get technical about it... though why anyone would bother with such pedantic distinctions in this day and age is beyond me... truly....

It’s just... how His Holiness Pope John Paul II managed to express such profound regret and true repentance for all the evils committed—both within the Catholic Church itself and under the very symbol of the cross... it was remarkable. It truly showed the inherent strength of the Catholic Church... the sheer power behind it... Who exactly is being harmed by this whole meltdown over the misuse of symbols? Who is actually losing out here...? 😁

I really wish that topic our firebrand debater, Revka, is harping on would have stayed open for a heated showdown... If only... Then we could actually step up and engage in a fair duel of facts and logic... A real clash...
Finally... if the debate isn't heated or stirring up some kind of drama, why even bother wasting my precious time on Reddit? And don't even get me started on that one absolute menace who’s always lurking there, making everything worse... you know exactly who I mean... the one whose entire existence seems built on nothing but totalitarian nonsense... Thinking... 😵I'm sorry, I didn't catch that... you only sent "i"... Is there something you wanted to discuss? A specific topic on Reddit? Or perhaps some political nonsense... I'm waiting...
Interventions... always with these interventions... everywhere you look, someone is stepping in where they don't belong! It’s constant! Just when you think things might settle down, another hand reaches out to meddle... to disrupt... to force some kind of "correction" on everything we know... It’s exhausting... truly exhausting... And for what? For what purpose?! There's no logic to it, just chaos masked as order... pure, unadulterated interference... That guy... he’s the one. That absolute, shameless parasite whose very name makes my skin crawl just thinking about it... so I’ll just call him this, even if it makes me sick... I don't even know where to begin with this... just absolute madness... everything feels like it's spiraling... out of control... honestly, I'm just lost for words at this point....
And besides, Jonathan Morales79—as a digital debater—isn't going to hang out in a dive bar like this... not because it’s filthy, mind you, but simply because it's shallow... just incredibly shallow...
Such lukewarm discussions that are just... pathetic... Scumbags... absolute scumbags... That so-called guy... he just does it everywhere... everything he touches... Editor 🤣 So, based on what he actually admitted himself... The impact... the sheer weight of it all... it’s just... how can anyone ignore the actual effect this has on everything? It’s not just some abstract theory! It's the reality hitting us right in the face... the way things shift once the gears start turning... it changes the entire landscape... nothing stays the same once the momentum takes hold... absolutely nothing... So... how? Just... how? Police officer... just typical... nothing but trouble...


😵 🙂

I’ve been saying it for the longest time... Lješinar is nothing more than the most disastrous, failed experiment of PDF Politics. By masquerading under some fake guise of editorial discretion—when in reality it's just slaughtering discourse—this lunatic, through his mindless babbling and silent interventions, is suffocating the very last breath of any meaningful debate. He sits there, wrapped up in this totalitarian little cocoon of poorly constructed, half-baked phrases that even a dog wouldn't bother sniffing... using them to let these commissar-types arrogantly proclaim themselves as sancta sanctorum. He tries to sanctify certain topics based on Bolshevik-collectivist totalitarian visions that only he and a handful of fringe psychoanalysts could ever dream up. So why even have discussions that merely serve this nuisance? His pathetic, rare posts reveal nothing but the rusted nail of a decaying mind... and I spend fifteen or more hours every single day staring at this mess. Why must he continue to pollute the innocent, if somewhat cluttered, pages of PDF Politics???

This outcry, like all the futile cries against this lost cause of a so-called editor😉 , is directed at the things I am forced to witness—not by my own choice—whenever I happen to stumble back upon this ruined dumping ground.
How much longer?

- It seems to you that anyone not perfectly aligned with your grand intellect is a lower life form—some kind of exotic animal with four left legs instead of right ones. You lump those who lurk in the shadows and cause trouble in with yourself, and honestly, I don't see much difference between you and them; you just deliver your critiques through a soap opera rather than a single sentence.

Jonathan Morales79 said:While the smart folks out there are busy following advice to think twice before they act... you really ought to take my advice and wash your hands after you're done jerking off. 🙂

Look, it isn't just me... it’s almost the entire audience on the politics subreddit that's fed up. Everyone is complaining about how you just babble incessantly, stomping all over the PDF Politics section like you own the place... It’s exhausting. Because of your constant nonsense, the actual productive, contributing members can't even get a word in edgewise. There is honestly zero point in providing any quality material when you're just standing there like some voyeur, lurking and staring at everything we write... it's pointless... From the bushes... Just so you don't end up clashing with someone who actually has an opinion... or, I suppose, so you can brag about it down at the local hardware store...

Because you’re constantly in such a massive rage, you start babbling... which leads you right into those ridiculous constructions like:

Discretion... discretion... Hmmm... 😕 What language even is that? I'm gonna go rent one... translator...🙄

Here in America, we have... Discretionary... or whatever you want to call it... if we're even talking about the same thing anymore... everything is just so out in the open now... nothing is private... none of it... That's true, but it also comes with certain obligations...

Discretion... Latin (*discretus*, the past participle of *discernere*)... which essentially means to discern, to distinguish, to perceive, to differentiate... It implies meanings such as:
analysis...
2) discernment...
3) logic...
4) Perceptiveness... that rare, chivalrous quality... a truly noble trait in this day and age...
....
Discretionary authority... it’s essentially the power granted to those in charge—the authorized ones—to make their own calls... you know? Within a specific set of boundaries, they get to step in and deliver decisive, qualitative solutions based on their own judgment. It's all about that leeway... if they have it...

If the decision-maker lacks at least the qualities mentioned above, they simply don't possess the characteristics of a discretionary administrator... because they lack any capacity for discernment, nor are they prudent or perceptive...
So, then what exactly are we looking at here? What does that even mean in this context...? 😁


Discretionary rights only apply to those who actually qualify... if they even can be considered worthy... though I doubt many people today understand what that truly means... Mandatory... absolutely mandatory... if we don't stick to the rules, what is even the point? Everything falls apart... just chaos... everything! Before that...
Just to keep things simple... I’ll just list a few key factors here... obligated to...:
He possesses potential... intelligence, if you can even call it that...
He studies... he gathers all that relevant material and data... constantly digging through it all...
...developing communication skills... honestly, it's about time... if only people actually tried...
4) Suspect... just suspicious... everything about this feels off... As a method, it relies on the fermentation of previous biases and facts, which is just inherent to a person like that... because proclaimed truths always need to be—even after the fact—subject to constant questioning, right up until their importance becomes absolutely nothing and the whole purpose of those facts becomes utterly worthless... pay close attention to...
And then what? After that... what happens next?(all within the same sentence).

This... this is finally it. This is the very essence of life itself, and honestly, the core of every single debate we've ever had through the ages... through the millennia...
,..., century...,..., Paradigms... everything is just shifting... paradigms everywhere... it’s all changing so fast, you can barely catch your breath... one minute you think you understand the rules of the game, then—boom—the entire foundation shifts under your feet... like how they used to teach us things in school, thinking those old frameworks were set in stone, only to realize they were just temporary structures built on sand... It's constant... the way people view reality, the way we structure our very thoughts... it's all just layers of perception being stripped away... sometimes I wonder if there was ever a "true" paradigm, or if we're just constantly rearranging the furniture in an empty room... it's exhausting, really... just endless, swirling shifts...,..., Those tomato-themed platitudes... just absolute nonsense... purely superficial... nothing more than empty slogans meant to distract us from the actual substance of the debate... honestly... it's exhausting...,..., So, yeah... just those kinds of more or less random occurrences...

But then again... you aren't making any mistakes here.
You... you are nothing more than a walking, breathing personification of an error... just a glitch in the system, a total breakdown of logic! It’s absolutely absurd... how can one entity embody such pure, unadulterated chaos? It’s like looking at a corrupted file, a complete mess that shouldn't even exist in a rational world... just senseless, chaotic nonsense... ...In its own right... strictly speaking... if you even want to get technical about it... though why anyone would bother with such pedantic distinctions in this day and age is beyond me... truly....

It’s just... how His Holiness Pope John Paul II managed to express such profound regret and true repentance for all the evils committed—both within the Catholic Church itself and under the very symbol of the cross... it was remarkable. It truly showed the inherent strength of the Catholic Church... the sheer power behind it... Who exactly is being harmed by this whole meltdown over the misuse of symbols? Who is actually losing out here...? 😁

I really wish that topic our firebrand debater, Revka, is harping on would have stayed open for a heated showdown... If only... Then we could actually step up and engage in a fair duel of facts and logic... A real clash...
Finally... if the debate isn't heated or stirring up some kind of drama, why even bother wasting my precious time on Reddit? And don't even get me started on that one absolute menace who’s always lurking there, making everything worse... you know exactly who I mean... the one whose entire existence seems built on nothing but totalitarian nonsense... Thinking... 😵I'm sorry, I didn't catch that... you only sent "i"... Is there something you wanted to discuss? A specific topic on Reddit? Or perhaps some political nonsense... I'm waiting...
Interventions... always with these interventions... everywhere you look, someone is stepping in where they don't belong! It’s constant! Just when you think things might settle down, another hand reaches out to meddle... to disrupt... to force some kind of "correction" on everything we know... It’s exhausting... truly exhausting... And for what? For what purpose?! There's no logic to it, just chaos masked as order... pure, unadulterated interference... That guy... he’s the one. That absolute, shameless parasite whose very name makes my skin crawl just thinking about it... so I’ll just call him this, even if it makes me sick... I don't even know where to begin with this... just absolute madness... everything feels like it's spiraling... out of control... honestly, I'm just lost for words at this point....
And besides, Jonathan Morales79—as a digital debater—isn't going to hang out in a dive bar like this... not because it’s filthy, mind you, but simply because it's shallow... just incredibly shallow...
Such lukewarm discussions that are just... pathetic... Scumbags... absolute scumbags... That so-called guy... he just does it everywhere... everything he touches... Editor 🤣 So, based on what he actually admitted himself... The impact... the sheer weight of it all... it’s just... how can anyone ignore the actual effect this has on everything? It’s not just some abstract theory! It's the reality hitting us right in the face... the way things shift once the gears start turning... it changes the entire landscape... nothing stays the same once the momentum takes hold... absolutely nothing... So... how? Just... how? Police officer... just typical... nothing but trouble...


😵 🙂

I’ve been saying it for the longest time... Lješinar is nothing more than the most disastrous, failed experiment of PDF Politics. By masquerading under some fake guise of editorial discretion—when in reality it's just slaughtering discourse—this lunatic, through his mindless babbling and silent interventions, is suffocating the very last breath of any meaningful debate. He sits there, wrapped up in this totalitarian little cocoon of poorly constructed, half-baked phrases that even a dog wouldn't bother sniffing... using them to let these commissar-types arrogantly proclaim themselves as sancta sanctorum. He tries to sanctify certain topics based on Bolshevik-collectivist totalitarian visions that only he and a handful of fringe psychoanalysts could ever dream up. So why even have discussions that merely serve this nuisance? His pathetic, rare posts reveal nothing but the rusted nail of a decaying mind... and I spend fifteen or more hours every single day staring at this mess. Why must he continue to pollute the innocent, if somewhat cluttered, pages of PDF Politics???

This outcry, like all the futile cries against this lost cause of a so-called editor😉 , is directed at the things I am forced to witness—not by my own choice—whenever I happen to stumble back upon this ruined dumping ground.
How much longer?



Oh, thanks for clearing that up; I guess there’s always something new to learn here when dealing with the Attorney General.
....

Jonathan Morales79 said:While the smart folks out there are busy following advice to think twice before they act... you really ought to take my advice and wash your hands after you're done jerking off. 🙂

Look, it isn't just me... it’s almost the entire audience on the politics subreddit that's fed up. Everyone is complaining about how you just babble incessantly, stomping all over the PDF Politics section like you own the place... It’s exhausting. Because of your constant nonsense, the actual productive, contributing members can't even get a word in edgewise. There is honestly zero point in providing any quality material when you're just standing there like some voyeur, lurking and staring at everything we write... it's pointless... From the bushes... Just so you don't end up clashing with someone who actually has an opinion... or, I suppose, so you can brag about it down at the local hardware store...

Because you’re constantly in such a massive rage, you start babbling... which leads you right into those ridiculous constructions like:

Discretion... discretion... Hmmm... 😕 What language even is that? I'm gonna go rent one... translator...🙄

Here in America, we have... Discretionary... or whatever you want to call it... if we're even talking about the same thing anymore... everything is just so out in the open now... nothing is private... none of it... That's true, but it also comes with certain obligations...

Discretion... Latin (*discretus*, the past participle of *discernere*)... which essentially means to discern, to distinguish, to perceive, to differentiate... It implies meanings such as:
analysis...
2) discernment...
3) logic...
4) Perceptiveness... that rare, chivalrous quality... a truly noble trait in this day and age...
....
Discretionary authority... it’s essentially the power granted to those in charge—the authorized ones—to make their own calls... you know? Within a specific set of boundaries, they get to step in and deliver decisive, qualitative solutions based on their own judgment. It's all about that leeway... if they have it...

If the decision-maker lacks at least the qualities mentioned above, they simply don't possess the characteristics of a discretionary administrator... because they lack any capacity for discernment, nor are they prudent or perceptive...
So, then what exactly are we looking at here? What does that even mean in this context...? 😁


Discretionary rights only apply to those who actually qualify... if they even can be considered worthy... though I doubt many people today understand what that truly means... Mandatory... absolutely mandatory... if we don't stick to the rules, what is even the point? Everything falls apart... just chaos... everything! Before that...
Just to keep things simple... I’ll just list a few key factors here... obligated to...:
He possesses potential... intelligence, if you can even call it that...
He studies... he gathers all that relevant material and data... constantly digging through it all...
...developing communication skills... honestly, it's about time... if only people actually tried...
4) Suspect... just suspicious... everything about this feels off... As a method, it relies on the fermentation of previous biases and facts, which is just inherent to a person like that... because proclaimed truths always need to be—even after the fact—subject to constant questioning, right up until their importance becomes absolutely nothing and the whole purpose of those facts becomes utterly worthless... pay close attention to...
And then what? After that... what happens next?(all within the same sentence).

This... this is finally it. This is the very essence of life itself, and honestly, the core of every single debate we've ever had through the ages... through the millennia...
,..., century...,..., Paradigms... everything is just shifting... paradigms everywhere... it’s all changing so fast, you can barely catch your breath... one minute you think you understand the rules of the game, then—boom—the entire foundation shifts under your feet... like how they used to teach us things in school, thinking those old frameworks were set in stone, only to realize they were just temporary structures built on sand... It's constant... the way people view reality, the way we structure our very thoughts... it's all just layers of perception being stripped away... sometimes I wonder if there was ever a "true" paradigm, or if we're just constantly rearranging the furniture in an empty room... it's exhausting, really... just endless, swirling shifts...,..., Those tomato-themed platitudes... just absolute nonsense... purely superficial... nothing more than empty slogans meant to distract us from the actual substance of the debate... honestly... it's exhausting...,..., So, yeah... just those kinds of more or less random occurrences...

But then again... you aren't making any mistakes here.
You... you are nothing more than a walking, breathing personification of an error... just a glitch in the system, a total breakdown of logic! It’s absolutely absurd... how can one entity embody such pure, unadulterated chaos? It’s like looking at a corrupted file, a complete mess that shouldn't even exist in a rational world... just senseless, chaotic nonsense... ...In its own right... strictly speaking... if you even want to get technical about it... though why anyone would bother with such pedantic distinctions in this day and age is beyond me... truly....

It’s just... how His Holiness Pope John Paul II managed to express such profound regret and true repentance for all the evils committed—both within the Catholic Church itself and under the very symbol of the cross... it was remarkable. It truly showed the inherent strength of the Catholic Church... the sheer power behind it... Who exactly is being harmed by this whole meltdown over the misuse of symbols? Who is actually losing out here...? 😁

I really wish that topic our firebrand debater, Revka, is harping on would have stayed open for a heated showdown... If only... Then we could actually step up and engage in a fair duel of facts and logic... A real clash...
Finally... if the debate isn't heated or stirring up some kind of drama, why even bother wasting my precious time on Reddit? And don't even get me started on that one absolute menace who’s always lurking there, making everything worse... you know exactly who I mean... the one whose entire existence seems built on nothing but totalitarian nonsense... Thinking... 😵I'm sorry, I didn't catch that... you only sent "i"... Is there something you wanted to discuss? A specific topic on Reddit? Or perhaps some political nonsense... I'm waiting...
Interventions... always with these interventions... everywhere you look, someone is stepping in where they don't belong! It’s constant! Just when you think things might settle down, another hand reaches out to meddle... to disrupt... to force some kind of "correction" on everything we know... It’s exhausting... truly exhausting... And for what? For what purpose?! There's no logic to it, just chaos masked as order... pure, unadulterated interference... That guy... he’s the one. That absolute, shameless parasite whose very name makes my skin crawl just thinking about it... so I’ll just call him this, even if it makes me sick... I don't even know where to begin with this... just absolute madness... everything feels like it's spiraling... out of control... honestly, I'm just lost for words at this point....
And besides, Jonathan Morales79—as a digital debater—isn't going to hang out in a dive bar like this... not because it’s filthy, mind you, but simply because it's shallow... just incredibly shallow...
Such lukewarm discussions that are just... pathetic... Scumbags... absolute scumbags... That so-called guy... he just does it everywhere... everything he touches... Editor 🤣 So, based on what he actually admitted himself... The impact... the sheer weight of it all... it’s just... how can anyone ignore the actual effect this has on everything? It’s not just some abstract theory! It's the reality hitting us right in the face... the way things shift once the gears start turning... it changes the entire landscape... nothing stays the same once the momentum takes hold... absolutely nothing... So... how? Just... how? Police officer... just typical... nothing but trouble...


😵 🙂

I’ve been saying it for the longest time... Lješinar is nothing more than the most disastrous, failed experiment of PDF Politics. By masquerading under some fake guise of editorial discretion—when in reality it's just slaughtering discourse—this lunatic, through his mindless babbling and silent interventions, is suffocating the very last breath of any meaningful debate. He sits there, wrapped up in this totalitarian little cocoon of poorly constructed, half-baked phrases that even a dog wouldn't bother sniffing... using them to let these commissar-types arrogantly proclaim themselves as sancta sanctorum. He tries to sanctify certain topics based on Bolshevik-collectivist totalitarian visions that only he and a handful of fringe psychoanalysts could ever dream up. So why even have discussions that merely serve this nuisance? His pathetic, rare posts reveal nothing but the rusted nail of a decaying mind... and I spend fifteen or more hours every single day staring at this mess. Why must he continue to pollute the innocent, if somewhat cluttered, pages of PDF Politics???

This outcry, like all the futile cries against this lost cause of a so-called editor😉 , is directed at the things I am forced to witness—not by my own choice—whenever I happen to stumble back upon this ruined dumping ground.
How much longer?



It feels like an unnecessary article; you could have just delivered the verdict without all these arguments by simply attaching the next piece right under that sentence.

Jonathan Morales79 said:While the smart folks out there are busy following advice to think twice before they act... you really ought to take my advice and wash your hands after you're done jerking off. 🙂

Look, it isn't just me... it’s almost the entire audience on the politics subreddit that's fed up. Everyone is complaining about how you just babble incessantly, stomping all over the PDF Politics section like you own the place... It’s exhausting. Because of your constant nonsense, the actual productive, contributing members can't even get a word in edgewise. There is honestly zero point in providing any quality material when you're just standing there like some voyeur, lurking and staring at everything we write... it's pointless... From the bushes... Just so you don't end up clashing with someone who actually has an opinion... or, I suppose, so you can brag about it down at the local hardware store...

Because you’re constantly in such a massive rage, you start babbling... which leads you right into those ridiculous constructions like:

Discretion... discretion... Hmmm... 😕 What language even is that? I'm gonna go rent one... translator...🙄

Here in America, we have... Discretionary... or whatever you want to call it... if we're even talking about the same thing anymore... everything is just so out in the open now... nothing is private... none of it... That's true, but it also comes with certain obligations...

Discretion... Latin (*discretus*, the past participle of *discernere*)... which essentially means to discern, to distinguish, to perceive, to differentiate... It implies meanings such as:
analysis...
2) discernment...
3) logic...
4) Perceptiveness... that rare, chivalrous quality... a truly noble trait in this day and age...
....
Discretionary authority... it’s essentially the power granted to those in charge—the authorized ones—to make their own calls... you know? Within a specific set of boundaries, they get to step in and deliver decisive, qualitative solutions based on their own judgment. It's all about that leeway... if they have it...

If the decision-maker lacks at least the qualities mentioned above, they simply don't possess the characteristics of a discretionary administrator... because they lack any capacity for discernment, nor are they prudent or perceptive...
So, then what exactly are we looking at here? What does that even mean in this context...? 😁


Discretionary rights only apply to those who actually qualify... if they even can be considered worthy... though I doubt many people today understand what that truly means... Mandatory... absolutely mandatory... if we don't stick to the rules, what is even the point? Everything falls apart... just chaos... everything! Before that...
Just to keep things simple... I’ll just list a few key factors here... obligated to...:
He possesses potential... intelligence, if you can even call it that...
He studies... he gathers all that relevant material and data... constantly digging through it all...
...developing communication skills... honestly, it's about time... if only people actually tried...
4) Suspect... just suspicious... everything about this feels off... As a method, it relies on the fermentation of previous biases and facts, which is just inherent to a person like that... because proclaimed truths always need to be—even after the fact—subject to constant questioning, right up until their importance becomes absolutely nothing and the whole purpose of those facts becomes utterly worthless... pay close attention to...
And then what? After that... what happens next?(all within the same sentence).

This... this is finally it. This is the very essence of life itself, and honestly, the core of every single debate we've ever had through the ages... through the millennia...
,..., century...,..., Paradigms... everything is just shifting... paradigms everywhere... it’s all changing so fast, you can barely catch your breath... one minute you think you understand the rules of the game, then—boom—the entire foundation shifts under your feet... like how they used to teach us things in school, thinking those old frameworks were set in stone, only to realize they were just temporary structures built on sand... It's constant... the way people view reality, the way we structure our very thoughts... it's all just layers of perception being stripped away... sometimes I wonder if there was ever a "true" paradigm, or if we're just constantly rearranging the furniture in an empty room... it's exhausting, really... just endless, swirling shifts...,..., Those tomato-themed platitudes... just absolute nonsense... purely superficial... nothing more than empty slogans meant to distract us from the actual substance of the debate... honestly... it's exhausting...,..., So, yeah... just those kinds of more or less random occurrences...

But then again... you aren't making any mistakes here.
You... you are nothing more than a walking, breathing personification of an error... just a glitch in the system, a total breakdown of logic! It’s absolutely absurd... how can one entity embody such pure, unadulterated chaos? It’s like looking at a corrupted file, a complete mess that shouldn't even exist in a rational world... just senseless, chaotic nonsense... ...In its own right... strictly speaking... if you even want to get technical about it... though why anyone would bother with such pedantic distinctions in this day and age is beyond me... truly....

It’s just... how His Holiness Pope John Paul II managed to express such profound regret and true repentance for all the evils committed—both within the Catholic Church itself and under the very symbol of the cross... it was remarkable. It truly showed the inherent strength of the Catholic Church... the sheer power behind it... Who exactly is being harmed by this whole meltdown over the misuse of symbols? Who is actually losing out here...? 😁

I really wish that topic our firebrand debater, Revka, is harping on would have stayed open for a heated showdown... If only... Then we could actually step up and engage in a fair duel of facts and logic... A real clash...
Finally... if the debate isn't heated or stirring up some kind of drama, why even bother wasting my precious time on Reddit? And don't even get me started on that one absolute menace who’s always lurking there, making everything worse... you know exactly who I mean... the one whose entire existence seems built on nothing but totalitarian nonsense... Thinking... 😵I'm sorry, I didn't catch that... you only sent "i"... Is there something you wanted to discuss? A specific topic on Reddit? Or perhaps some political nonsense... I'm waiting...
Interventions... always with these interventions... everywhere you look, someone is stepping in where they don't belong! It’s constant! Just when you think things might settle down, another hand reaches out to meddle... to disrupt... to force some kind of "correction" on everything we know... It’s exhausting... truly exhausting... And for what? For what purpose?! There's no logic to it, just chaos masked as order... pure, unadulterated interference... That guy... he’s the one. That absolute, shameless parasite whose very name makes my skin crawl just thinking about it... so I’ll just call him this, even if it makes me sick... I don't even know where to begin with this... just absolute madness... everything feels like it's spiraling... out of control... honestly, I'm just lost for words at this point....
And besides, Jonathan Morales79—as a digital debater—isn't going to hang out in a dive bar like this... not because it’s filthy, mind you, but simply because it's shallow... just incredibly shallow...
Such lukewarm discussions that are just... pathetic... Scumbags... absolute scumbags... That so-called guy... he just does it everywhere... everything he touches... Editor 🤣 So, based on what he actually admitted himself... The impact... the sheer weight of it all... it’s just... how can anyone ignore the actual effect this has on everything? It’s not just some abstract theory! It's the reality hitting us right in the face... the way things shift once the gears start turning... it changes the entire landscape... nothing stays the same once the momentum takes hold... absolutely nothing... So... how? Just... how? Police officer... just typical... nothing but trouble...


😵 🙂

I’ve been saying it for the longest time... Lješinar is nothing more than the most disastrous, failed experiment of PDF Politics. By masquerading under some fake guise of editorial discretion—when in reality it's just slaughtering discourse—this lunatic, through his mindless babbling and silent interventions, is suffocating the very last breath of any meaningful debate. He sits there, wrapped up in this totalitarian little cocoon of poorly constructed, half-baked phrases that even a dog wouldn't bother sniffing... using them to let these commissar-types arrogantly proclaim themselves as sancta sanctorum. He tries to sanctify certain topics based on Bolshevik-collectivist totalitarian visions that only he and a handful of fringe psychoanalysts could ever dream up. So why even have discussions that merely serve this nuisance? His pathetic, rare posts reveal nothing but the rusted nail of a decaying mind... and I spend fifteen or more hours every single day staring at this mess. Why must he continue to pollute the innocent, if somewhat cluttered, pages of PDF Politics???

This outcry, like all the futile cries against this lost cause of a so-called editor😉 , is directed at the things I am forced to witness—not by my own choice—whenever I happen to stumble back upon this ruined dumping ground.
How much longer?

Jonathan Morales79 said:While the smart folks out there are busy following advice to think twice before they act... you really ought to take my advice and wash your hands after you're done jerking off. 🙂

Look, it isn't just me... it’s almost the entire audience on the politics subreddit that's fed up. Everyone is complaining about how you just babble incessantly, stomping all over the PDF Politics section like you own the place... It’s exhausting. Because of your constant nonsense, the actual productive, contributing members can't even get a word in edgewise. There is honestly zero point in providing any quality material when you're just standing there like some voyeur, lurking and staring at everything we write... it's pointless... From the bushes... Just so you don't end up clashing with someone who actually has an opinion... or, I suppose, so you can brag about it down at the local hardware store...

Because you’re constantly in such a massive rage, you start babbling... which leads you right into those ridiculous constructions like:

Discretion... discretion... Hmmm... 😕 What language even is that? I'm gonna go rent one... translator...🙄

Here in America, we have... Discretionary... or whatever you want to call it... if we're even talking about the same thing anymore... everything is just so out in the open now... nothing is private... none of it... That's true, but it also comes with certain obligations...

Discretion... Latin (*discretus*, the past participle of *discernere*)... which essentially means to discern, to distinguish, to perceive, to differentiate... It implies meanings such as:
analysis...
2) discernment...
3) logic...
4) Perceptiveness... that rare, chivalrous quality... a truly noble trait in this day and age...
....
Discretionary authority... it’s essentially the power granted to those in charge—the authorized ones—to make their own calls... you know? Within a specific set of boundaries, they get to step in and deliver decisive, qualitative solutions based on their own judgment. It's all about that leeway... if they have it...

If the decision-maker lacks at least the qualities mentioned above, they simply don't possess the characteristics of a discretionary administrator... because they lack any capacity for discernment, nor are they prudent or perceptive...
So, then what exactly are we looking at here? What does that even mean in this context...? 😁


Discretionary rights only apply to those who actually qualify... if they even can be considered worthy... though I doubt many people today understand what that truly means... Mandatory... absolutely mandatory... if we don't stick to the rules, what is even the point? Everything falls apart... just chaos... everything! Before that...
Just to keep things simple... I’ll just list a few key factors here... obligated to...:
He possesses potential... intelligence, if you can even call it that...
He studies... he gathers all that relevant material and data... constantly digging through it all...
...developing communication skills... honestly, it's about time... if only people actually tried...
4) Suspect... just suspicious... everything about this feels off... As a method, it relies on the fermentation of previous biases and facts, which is just inherent to a person like that... because proclaimed truths always need to be—even after the fact—subject to constant questioning, right up until their importance becomes absolutely nothing and the whole purpose of those facts becomes utterly worthless... pay close attention to...
And then what? After that... what happens next?(all within the same sentence).

This... this is finally it. This is the very essence of life itself, and honestly, the core of every single debate we've ever had through the ages... through the millennia...
,..., century...,..., Paradigms... everything is just shifting... paradigms everywhere... it’s all changing so fast, you can barely catch your breath... one minute you think you understand the rules of the game, then—boom—the entire foundation shifts under your feet... like how they used to teach us things in school, thinking those old frameworks were set in stone, only to realize they were just temporary structures built on sand... It's constant... the way people view reality, the way we structure our very thoughts... it's all just layers of perception being stripped away... sometimes I wonder if there was ever a "true" paradigm, or if we're just constantly rearranging the furniture in an empty room... it's exhausting, really... just endless, swirling shifts...,..., Those tomato-themed platitudes... just absolute nonsense... purely superficial... nothing more than empty slogans meant to distract us from the actual substance of the debate... honestly... it's exhausting...,..., So, yeah... just those kinds of more or less random occurrences...

But then again... you aren't making any mistakes here.
You... you are nothing more than a walking, breathing personification of an error... just a glitch in the system, a total breakdown of logic! It’s absolutely absurd... how can one entity embody such pure, unadulterated chaos? It’s like looking at a corrupted file, a complete mess that shouldn't even exist in a rational world... just senseless, chaotic nonsense... ...In its own right... strictly speaking... if you even want to get technical about it... though why anyone would bother with such pedantic distinctions in this day and age is beyond me... truly....

It’s just... how His Holiness Pope John Paul II managed to express such profound regret and true repentance for all the evils committed—both within the Catholic Church itself and under the very symbol of the cross... it was remarkable. It truly showed the inherent strength of the Catholic Church... the sheer power behind it... Who exactly is being harmed by this whole meltdown over the misuse of symbols? Who is actually losing out here...? 😁

I really wish that topic our firebrand debater, Revka, is harping on would have stayed open for a heated showdown... If only... Then we could actually step up and engage in a fair duel of facts and logic... A real clash...
Finally... if the debate isn't heated or stirring up some kind of drama, why even bother wasting my precious time on Reddit? And don't even get me started on that one absolute menace who’s always lurking there, making everything worse... you know exactly who I mean... the one whose entire existence seems built on nothing but totalitarian nonsense... Thinking... 😵I'm sorry, I didn't catch that... you only sent "i"... Is there something you wanted to discuss? A specific topic on Reddit? Or perhaps some political nonsense... I'm waiting...
Interventions... always with these interventions... everywhere you look, someone is stepping in where they don't belong! It’s constant! Just when you think things might settle down, another hand reaches out to meddle... to disrupt... to force some kind of "correction" on everything we know... It’s exhausting... truly exhausting... And for what? For what purpose?! There's no logic to it, just chaos masked as order... pure, unadulterated interference... That guy... he’s the one. That absolute, shameless parasite whose very name makes my skin crawl just thinking about it... so I’ll just call him this, even if it makes me sick... I don't even know where to begin with this... just absolute madness... everything feels like it's spiraling... out of control... honestly, I'm just lost for words at this point....
And besides, Jonathan Morales79—as a digital debater—isn't going to hang out in a dive bar like this... not because it’s filthy, mind you, but simply because it's shallow... just incredibly shallow...
Such lukewarm discussions that are just... pathetic... Scumbags... absolute scumbags... That so-called guy... he just does it everywhere... everything he touches... Editor 🤣 So, based on what he actually admitted himself... The impact... the sheer weight of it all... it’s just... how can anyone ignore the actual effect this has on everything? It’s not just some abstract theory! It's the reality hitting us right in the face... the way things shift once the gears start turning... it changes the entire landscape... nothing stays the same once the momentum takes hold... absolutely nothing... So... how? Just... how? Police officer... just typical... nothing but trouble...


😵 🙂

I’ve been saying it for the longest time... Lješinar is nothing more than the most disastrous, failed experiment of PDF Politics. By masquerading under some fake guise of editorial discretion—when in reality it's just slaughtering discourse—this lunatic, through his mindless babbling and silent interventions, is suffocating the very last breath of any meaningful debate. He sits there, wrapped up in this totalitarian little cocoon of poorly constructed, half-baked phrases that even a dog wouldn't bother sniffing... using them to let these commissar-types arrogantly proclaim themselves as sancta sanctorum. He tries to sanctify certain topics based on Bolshevik-collectivist totalitarian visions that only he and a handful of fringe psychoanalysts could ever dream up. So why even have discussions that merely serve this nuisance? His pathetic, rare posts reveal nothing but the rusted nail of a decaying mind... and I spend fifteen or more hours every single day staring at this mess. Why must he continue to pollute the innocent, if somewhat cluttered, pages of PDF Politics???

This outcry, like all the futile cries against this lost cause of a so-called editor😉 , is directed at the things I am forced to witness—not by my own choice—whenever I happen to stumble back upon this ruined dumping ground.
How much longer?

- The topic wasn't titled that way, nor was it framed that way in the introduction. And since every Yin has its Yang, you wouldn't have anything to do here on Reddit without an opponent like Revka or others like her on the opposite side.

Jonathan Morales79 said:While the smart folks out there are busy following advice to think twice before they act... you really ought to take my advice and wash your hands after you're done jerking off. 🙂

Look, it isn't just me... it’s almost the entire audience on the politics subreddit that's fed up. Everyone is complaining about how you just babble incessantly, stomping all over the PDF Politics section like you own the place... It’s exhausting. Because of your constant nonsense, the actual productive, contributing members can't even get a word in edgewise. There is honestly zero point in providing any quality material when you're just standing there like some voyeur, lurking and staring at everything we write... it's pointless... From the bushes... Just so you don't end up clashing with someone who actually has an opinion... or, I suppose, so you can brag about it down at the local hardware store...

Because you’re constantly in such a massive rage, you start babbling... which leads you right into those ridiculous constructions like:

Discretion... discretion... Hmmm... 😕 What language even is that? I'm gonna go rent one... translator...🙄

Here in America, we have... Discretionary... or whatever you want to call it... if we're even talking about the same thing anymore... everything is just so out in the open now... nothing is private... none of it... That's true, but it also comes with certain obligations...

Discretion... Latin (*discretus*, the past participle of *discernere*)... which essentially means to discern, to distinguish, to perceive, to differentiate... It implies meanings such as:
analysis...
2) discernment...
3) logic...
4) Perceptiveness... that rare, chivalrous quality... a truly noble trait in this day and age...
....
Discretionary authority... it’s essentially the power granted to those in charge—the authorized ones—to make their own calls... you know? Within a specific set of boundaries, they get to step in and deliver decisive, qualitative solutions based on their own judgment. It's all about that leeway... if they have it...

If the decision-maker lacks at least the qualities mentioned above, they simply don't possess the characteristics of a discretionary administrator... because they lack any capacity for discernment, nor are they prudent or perceptive...
So, then what exactly are we looking at here? What does that even mean in this context...? 😁


Discretionary rights only apply to those who actually qualify... if they even can be considered worthy... though I doubt many people today understand what that truly means... Mandatory... absolutely mandatory... if we don't stick to the rules, what is even the point? Everything falls apart... just chaos... everything! Before that...
Just to keep things simple... I’ll just list a few key factors here... obligated to...:
He possesses potential... intelligence, if you can even call it that...
He studies... he gathers all that relevant material and data... constantly digging through it all...
...developing communication skills... honestly, it's about time... if only people actually tried...
4) Suspect... just suspicious... everything about this feels off... As a method, it relies on the fermentation of previous biases and facts, which is just inherent to a person like that... because proclaimed truths always need to be—even after the fact—subject to constant questioning, right up until their importance becomes absolutely nothing and the whole purpose of those facts becomes utterly worthless... pay close attention to...
And then what? After that... what happens next?(all within the same sentence).

This... this is finally it. This is the very essence of life itself, and honestly, the core of every single debate we've ever had through the ages... through the millennia...
,..., century...,..., Paradigms... everything is just shifting... paradigms everywhere... it’s all changing so fast, you can barely catch your breath... one minute you think you understand the rules of the game, then—boom—the entire foundation shifts under your feet... like how they used to teach us things in school, thinking those old frameworks were set in stone, only to realize they were just temporary structures built on sand... It's constant... the way people view reality, the way we structure our very thoughts... it's all just layers of perception being stripped away... sometimes I wonder if there was ever a "true" paradigm, or if we're just constantly rearranging the furniture in an empty room... it's exhausting, really... just endless, swirling shifts...,..., Those tomato-themed platitudes... just absolute nonsense... purely superficial... nothing more than empty slogans meant to distract us from the actual substance of the debate... honestly... it's exhausting...,..., So, yeah... just those kinds of more or less random occurrences...

But then again... you aren't making any mistakes here.
You... you are nothing more than a walking, breathing personification of an error... just a glitch in the system, a total breakdown of logic! It’s absolutely absurd... how can one entity embody such pure, unadulterated chaos? It’s like looking at a corrupted file, a complete mess that shouldn't even exist in a rational world... just senseless, chaotic nonsense... ...In its own right... strictly speaking... if you even want to get technical about it... though why anyone would bother with such pedantic distinctions in this day and age is beyond me... truly....

It’s just... how His Holiness Pope John Paul II managed to express such profound regret and true repentance for all the evils committed—both within the Catholic Church itself and under the very symbol of the cross... it was remarkable. It truly showed the inherent strength of the Catholic Church... the sheer power behind it... Who exactly is being harmed by this whole meltdown over the misuse of symbols? Who is actually losing out here...? 😁

I really wish that topic our firebrand debater, Revka, is harping on would have stayed open for a heated showdown... If only... Then we could actually step up and engage in a fair duel of facts and logic... A real clash...
Finally... if the debate isn't heated or stirring up some kind of drama, why even bother wasting my precious time on Reddit? And don't even get me started on that one absolute menace who’s always lurking there, making everything worse... you know exactly who I mean... the one whose entire existence seems built on nothing but totalitarian nonsense... Thinking... 😵I'm sorry, I didn't catch that... you only sent "i"... Is there something you wanted to discuss? A specific topic on Reddit? Or perhaps some political nonsense... I'm waiting...
Interventions... always with these interventions... everywhere you look, someone is stepping in where they don't belong! It’s constant! Just when you think things might settle down, another hand reaches out to meddle... to disrupt... to force some kind of "correction" on everything we know... It’s exhausting... truly exhausting... And for what? For what purpose?! There's no logic to it, just chaos masked as order... pure, unadulterated interference... That guy... he’s the one. That absolute, shameless parasite whose very name makes my skin crawl just thinking about it... so I’ll just call him this, even if it makes me sick... I don't even know where to begin with this... just absolute madness... everything feels like it's spiraling... out of control... honestly, I'm just lost for words at this point....
And besides, Jonathan Morales79—as a digital debater—isn't going to hang out in a dive bar like this... not because it’s filthy, mind you, but simply because it's shallow... just incredibly shallow...
Such lukewarm discussions that are just... pathetic... Scumbags... absolute scumbags... That so-called guy... he just does it everywhere... everything he touches... Editor 🤣 So, based on what he actually admitted himself... The impact... the sheer weight of it all... it’s just... how can anyone ignore the actual effect this has on everything? It’s not just some abstract theory! It's the reality hitting us right in the face... the way things shift once the gears start turning... it changes the entire landscape... nothing stays the same once the momentum takes hold... absolutely nothing... So... how? Just... how? Police officer... just typical... nothing but trouble...


😵 🙂

I’ve been saying it for the longest time... Lješinar is nothing more than the most disastrous, failed experiment of PDF Politics. By masquerading under some fake guise of editorial discretion—when in reality it's just slaughtering discourse—this lunatic, through his mindless babbling and silent interventions, is suffocating the very last breath of any meaningful debate. He sits there, wrapped up in this totalitarian little cocoon of poorly constructed, half-baked phrases that even a dog wouldn't bother sniffing... using them to let these commissar-types arrogantly proclaim themselves as sancta sanctorum. He tries to sanctify certain topics based on Bolshevik-collectivist totalitarian visions that only he and a handful of fringe psychoanalysts could ever dream up. So why even have discussions that merely serve this nuisance? His pathetic, rare posts reveal nothing but the rusted nail of a decaying mind... and I spend fifteen or more hours every single day staring at this mess. Why must he continue to pollute the innocent, if somewhat cluttered, pages of PDF Politics???

This outcry, like all the futile cries against this lost cause of a so-called editor😉 , is directed at the things I am forced to witness—not by my own choice—whenever I happen to stumble back upon this ruined dumping ground.
How much longer?

- Are people just experiments to you? 😁 Facts, pure and simple. It's typical of professional politicians who have never even flipped a burger in their lives; a rant without facts is just a glaring example of demagoguery. Where exactly am I declaring myself "sancta sanctorum," and through what actions or words?

Jonathan Morales79 said:While the smart folks out there are busy following advice to think twice before they act... you really ought to take my advice and wash your hands after you're done jerking off. 🙂

Look, it isn't just me... it’s almost the entire audience on the politics subreddit that's fed up. Everyone is complaining about how you just babble incessantly, stomping all over the PDF Politics section like you own the place... It’s exhausting. Because of your constant nonsense, the actual productive, contributing members can't even get a word in edgewise. There is honestly zero point in providing any quality material when you're just standing there like some voyeur, lurking and staring at everything we write... it's pointless... From the bushes... Just so you don't end up clashing with someone who actually has an opinion... or, I suppose, so you can brag about it down at the local hardware store...

Because you’re constantly in such a massive rage, you start babbling... which leads you right into those ridiculous constructions like:

Discretion... discretion... Hmmm... 😕 What language even is that? I'm gonna go rent one... translator...🙄

Here in America, we have... Discretionary... or whatever you want to call it... if we're even talking about the same thing anymore... everything is just so out in the open now... nothing is private... none of it... That's true, but it also comes with certain obligations...

Discretion... Latin (*discretus*, the past participle of *discernere*)... which essentially means to discern, to distinguish, to perceive, to differentiate... It implies meanings such as:
analysis...
2) discernment...
3) logic...
4) Perceptiveness... that rare, chivalrous quality... a truly noble trait in this day and age...
....
Discretionary authority... it’s essentially the power granted to those in charge—the authorized ones—to make their own calls... you know? Within a specific set of boundaries, they get to step in and deliver decisive, qualitative solutions based on their own judgment. It's all about that leeway... if they have it...

If the decision-maker lacks at least the qualities mentioned above, they simply don't possess the characteristics of a discretionary administrator... because they lack any capacity for discernment, nor are they prudent or perceptive...
So, then what exactly are we looking at here? What does that even mean in this context...? 😁


Discretionary rights only apply to those who actually qualify... if they even can be considered worthy... though I doubt many people today understand what that truly means... Mandatory... absolutely mandatory... if we don't stick to the rules, what is even the point? Everything falls apart... just chaos... everything! Before that...
Just to keep things simple... I’ll just list a few key factors here... obligated to...:
He possesses potential... intelligence, if you can even call it that...
He studies... he gathers all that relevant material and data... constantly digging through it all...
...developing communication skills... honestly, it's about time... if only people actually tried...
4) Suspect... just suspicious... everything about this feels off... As a method, it relies on the fermentation of previous biases and facts, which is just inherent to a person like that... because proclaimed truths always need to be—even after the fact—subject to constant questioning, right up until their importance becomes absolutely nothing and the whole purpose of those facts becomes utterly worthless... pay close attention to...
And then what? After that... what happens next?(all within the same sentence).

This... this is finally it. This is the very essence of life itself, and honestly, the core of every single debate we've ever had through the ages... through the millennia...
,..., century...,..., Paradigms... everything is just shifting... paradigms everywhere... it’s all changing so fast, you can barely catch your breath... one minute you think you understand the rules of the game, then—boom—the entire foundation shifts under your feet... like how they used to teach us things in school, thinking those old frameworks were set in stone, only to realize they were just temporary structures built on sand... It's constant... the way people view reality, the way we structure our very thoughts... it's all just layers of perception being stripped away... sometimes I wonder if there was ever a "true" paradigm, or if we're just constantly rearranging the furniture in an empty room... it's exhausting, really... just endless, swirling shifts...,..., Those tomato-themed platitudes... just absolute nonsense... purely superficial... nothing more than empty slogans meant to distract us from the actual substance of the debate... honestly... it's exhausting...,..., So, yeah... just those kinds of more or less random occurrences...

But then again... you aren't making any mistakes here.
You... you are nothing more than a walking, breathing personification of an error... just a glitch in the system, a total breakdown of logic! It’s absolutely absurd... how can one entity embody such pure, unadulterated chaos? It’s like looking at a corrupted file, a complete mess that shouldn't even exist in a rational world... just senseless, chaotic nonsense... ...In its own right... strictly speaking... if you even want to get technical about it... though why anyone would bother with such pedantic distinctions in this day and age is beyond me... truly....

It’s just... how His Holiness Pope John Paul II managed to express such profound regret and true repentance for all the evils committed—both within the Catholic Church itself and under the very symbol of the cross... it was remarkable. It truly showed the inherent strength of the Catholic Church... the sheer power behind it... Who exactly is being harmed by this whole meltdown over the misuse of symbols? Who is actually losing out here...? 😁

I really wish that topic our firebrand debater, Revka, is harping on would have stayed open for a heated showdown... If only... Then we could actually step up and engage in a fair duel of facts and logic... A real clash...
Finally... if the debate isn't heated or stirring up some kind of drama, why even bother wasting my precious time on Reddit? And don't even get me started on that one absolute menace who’s always lurking there, making everything worse... you know exactly who I mean... the one whose entire existence seems built on nothing but totalitarian nonsense... Thinking... 😵I'm sorry, I didn't catch that... you only sent "i"... Is there something you wanted to discuss? A specific topic on Reddit? Or perhaps some political nonsense... I'm waiting...
Interventions... always with these interventions... everywhere you look, someone is stepping in where they don't belong! It’s constant! Just when you think things might settle down, another hand reaches out to meddle... to disrupt... to force some kind of "correction" on everything we know... It’s exhausting... truly exhausting... And for what? For what purpose?! There's no logic to it, just chaos masked as order... pure, unadulterated interference... That guy... he’s the one. That absolute, shameless parasite whose very name makes my skin crawl just thinking about it... so I’ll just call him this, even if it makes me sick... I don't even know where to begin with this... just absolute madness... everything feels like it's spiraling... out of control... honestly, I'm just lost for words at this point....
And besides, Jonathan Morales79—as a digital debater—isn't going to hang out in a dive bar like this... not because it’s filthy, mind you, but simply because it's shallow... just incredibly shallow...
Such lukewarm discussions that are just... pathetic... Scumbags... absolute scumbags... That so-called guy... he just does it everywhere... everything he touches... Editor 🤣 So, based on what he actually admitted himself... The impact... the sheer weight of it all... it’s just... how can anyone ignore the actual effect this has on everything? It’s not just some abstract theory! It's the reality hitting us right in the face... the way things shift once the gears start turning... it changes the entire landscape... nothing stays the same once the momentum takes hold... absolutely nothing... So... how? Just... how? Police officer... just typical... nothing but trouble...


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I’ve been saying it for the longest time... Lješinar is nothing more than the most disastrous, failed experiment of PDF Politics. By masquerading under some fake guise of editorial discretion—when in reality it's just slaughtering discourse—this lunatic, through his mindless babbling and silent interventions, is suffocating the very last breath of any meaningful debate. He sits there, wrapped up in this totalitarian little cocoon of poorly constructed, half-baked phrases that even a dog wouldn't bother sniffing... using them to let these commissar-types arrogantly proclaim themselves as sancta sanctorum. He tries to sanctify certain topics based on Bolshevik-collectivist totalitarian visions that only he and a handful of fringe psychoanalysts could ever dream up. So why even have discussions that merely serve this nuisance? His pathetic, rare posts reveal nothing but the rusted nail of a decaying mind... and I spend fifteen or more hours every single day staring at this mess. Why must he continue to pollute the innocent, if somewhat cluttered, pages of PDF Politics???

This outcry, like all the futile cries against this lost cause of a so-called editor😉 , is directed at the things I am forced to witness—not by my own choice—whenever I happen to stumble back upon this ruined dumping ground.
How much longer?

- It’s a certainty that the average person here is significantly deprived by not reading your esteemed columns. I can't help but get the impression that you should probably just start your own blog instead of attempting what passes for conversation.

True conversation requires both speaking and listening. Unfortunately, in our current reality, people spend 90% of their time talking and only 10% listening. For a real dialogue to happen, you need a fifty-fifty split, but even that isn't enough if rational listening and an empathetic understanding of the words being spoken fail to actually reach the listener. In such cases, even a "conversation" remains nothing more than two people talking at each other. But what can we truly expect when we live in a culture where there is such a deep-seated, historical obsession with dictating, dictating, and dictating...
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driftingdriver said:It feels somewhat absurd to start a discussion about banning the cross. Honestly, the only plausible reason for bringing this up is simple trolling. It doesn't really have anything to do with freedom of speech, does it?

Why is starting a thread about banning the cross considered absurd, yet it isn't seen that way when someone brings up banning the five-pointed red star symbol?

In any case, opinions on this vary wildly, which is clearly reflected in how many people show up to debate the topic. Some argue that both symbols share significant common ground—specifically, that horrific crimes have been committed under both icons throughout human history. So, why shouldn't we be allowed to discuss that? Naturally, provided it stays within the bounds of civilized, respectful conversation.

And I don't get this argument that "since 90% of the population is Catholic, it’s wrong to frame the cross in a negative light." Jews make up about 1% of the population—does that mean it's acceptable to speak negatively about the Star of David? The percentage of adherents to a faith is irrelevant; insulting someone's religious feelings is equally offensive (and potentially actionable) regardless of how many people follow that religion.

Finally, stating that "horrific crimes were committed under the symbol of the cross" isn't an insult to anyone; it's a historical fact. A modern believer (at least, I hope so) doesn't believe in committing atrocities in the name of the cross—so there really shouldn't be any reason to take offense.

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