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2005-09-12 Afghanistan/South Asia

Bounty announced for Abdur Rahman, Bangla Bhai

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Posted by Steve White 2005-09-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1
Are we allowed now to call people "cunts" on Rantburg?

Or is only .com allowed?
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-09-12 00:48|| 2005-09-12 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Mike S.: enough. If you're going to behave like a troll, you'll be treated like one.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2005-09-12 00:52|| 2005-09-12 00:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Call them "muslims" instead.

Posted by Slimp Gragum7516 2005-09-12 01:46|| 2005-09-12 01:46|| Front Page Top

#4 It's the period you sign your whining posts with that sealed it.

Posted by .com 2005-09-12 03:24|| 2005-09-12 03:24|| Front Page Top

#5
Here's a quotation from a previous Steve White comment:

Yes, we will ban regulars if sufficiently abusive/foul. Ask Aris for details -- oh right, you can't, we banned him :-)

Why is .com allowed to constantly mention fellatio, cunts, and other sexual organs in his comments about other Rantburgers, and his comments are never even moved into the Sinktrap?

Aris was banned for being "abusive/foul".

.com is not even put into the Sinktrap.

That's why I say there is a Rabble here that is allowed to conduct relentless ad hominem dog-pack attacks on dissidents and that the moderators watch and even participate.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-09-12 07:05|| 2005-09-12 07:05|| Front Page Top

#6
Here is a quotation from a previous Steve White comment:

Yes, we will ban regulars if sufficiently abusive/foul. Ask Aris for details -- oh right, you can't, we banned him :-)

Why was Aris banned for being "abusive/foul"

... while ....

.com is allowed to use vulgar expressions for vaginas, fellatio and other sexual organs and functions while talking about other Rantburgers?

That's why I say that Rantburg has a rabble that is allowed to conduct relentless ad hominem dog-pack attack on dissidents while the monitors watch and even participate.
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Posted by .cunt 2005-09-12 07:10|| 2005-09-12 07:10|| Front Page Top

#7
I apologize for the double post. Now all my comments apparently are being reviewed and approved by the "moderators" before they appear.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-09-12 07:12|| 2005-09-12 07:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief?

Posted by gromgoru 2005-09-12 07:28|| 2005-09-12 07:28|| Front Page Top

#9
To illustrate how the monitors watch and allow abusive, foul ad hominem attacks on other Rantburgers, here are some excerpts from an obviously "monitored" thread on July 31.

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#34 BIG MODERATOR SIGH

If we can't make this useful, maybe I should just delete the whole thing?????

Life's too short, people.
Posted by rkb 2005-07-31 18:58
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#36 At some point this sort of repetitive annoyance both degrades Rantburg for others. I've had backchannel complaints by people who have been longtime, USEFUL Rantburg commenters and article submitters. Some of them are getting fed up. ....
Posted by rkb
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#37 ....

Recently I was involved in long discussions about 1) whether Joseph Wilson ever claimed he was sent to Niger by Cheney and 2) whether extraordinary interrogation methods at Gitmo led to the arrest of KSM. In both of those discussions I provided many facts and links to support my arguments. If you think back, you will remember that I have discussed many, many subjects in that manner.

Do you hold other posters to the same standard? Do other posters have to add their own observations, pro and con, to every post to satisfy you?

Also, do you hold other people here to the same standard about provoking other Rantburgers? Do you not notice that several people here provoke constantly? How often do you remark about that with regard to other people? ....

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-07-31 19:06
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#39 I like to fellate myself. Because I like it, other people like it too. Simple logic. Because other people like it, I'll keep posting articles about me licking myself. If anyone objects, they're wrong. Because someone else out there is right, even if they don't speak up in support of me licking myself.
Remember: Kofi can't be proven guilty until someone proves him innocent! It's LOGIC, I tell you!

Posted by sylvester the cat 2005-07-31 19:10||
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#40 rkb, do you have any opinions about #39?
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-07-31 19:12
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#41 Yes. I think both parties are wasting my time reading this stuff.

Fred can defend his bandwidth further if he choses. And you all can just go on doing stupid troll tricks with one another in the meanwhile.
Posted by rkb 2005-07-31 19:14
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The moderators' automatic permission for the Rantburg Rabble to conduct foul, abusive attacks against other Rantburgers -- while banning normally civil dissidents who ever bite back -- is why so much Rantburg discussion is like this (#18) and why people leave this echo-chamber mosque.

(P.S. I retract my comment #7 in this thread.)
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-09-12 07:38|| 2005-09-12 07:38|| Front Page Top

#10 This is a distraction utterly irrelevant to anything in the item posted or the thread. It cheapens Rantburg.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-09-12 08:28|| 2005-09-12 08:28|| Front Page Top

#11 OK, a lecture on multiculturalism for Mikeys benefit. 'Cunt' may be an extremely coarse term where you live, but its common usage in large parts of the english speaking world. It approximates to fucker or wanker. Its abusive but not seriously so. The problem here is Mikey's narrow parochialism and intolerance of other cultures, typical of the Left.

Posted by phil_b 2005-09-12 08:35|| 2005-09-12 08:35|| Front Page Top

#12 I've never understood why people keep coming back to a site to complain about how it's run.

Start your own site, Mikey. Run it the way you like.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-12 08:40|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-12 08:40|| Front Page Top

#13 I see a cycle. Looks like about a 67 days between flows.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-12 09:30|| 2005-09-12 09:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Its a signuzoidal cycle, shipman.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-09-12 11:16|| 2005-09-12 11:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Still trolling for disrespect, I see, and whining when the response doesn't match the internal fantasy.

The Troll asked in #96:
"If you don't like the word "dissident" then what's the right word for people who are personally hounded here for disagreeing with the Rabble on a couple of issues. Suggest a better word and I'll use it."

Although I didn't accept the framing of the question, since it's The Troll's typical load of hypocritical shit, nonetheless I overlooked the whine and provided an answer that fits the facts.

The Troll hijacks this totally unrelated thread to continue its endless whine and spin about its "victimhood". It's no victim, it's an attention whore and professional shit magnet. The Troll has many, but one particularly silly pretentious affectation suggested the response: The Troll always ends with a prominant and pointless period. Q.E.D.

Posted by .com 2005-09-12 11:46|| 2005-09-12 11:46|| Front Page Top

#16 Good God. I just jumped over to that thread; I hadn't read Rantburg all weekend.

Mikey has truly achieved "IT'S ALL ABOUT MEEEEEE" status, hasn't he?

So his little girl didn't get to do her turn on the catwalk. Sorry to hear that. AFAICR, another little girl was on her way to Disneyland with her parents when her plane was hijacked and rammed into the Pentagon.

But, hey, at least her modeling career wasn't ruined, right?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-12 11:59|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-12 11:59|| Front Page Top

#17 Still whining,Monkey Spit(aka:Mike Sylwester)give it a rest cry baby.

Posted by raptor 2005-09-12 11:59|| 2005-09-12 11:59|| Front Page Top

#18 Thanks AP! I lerned a new word today.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-12 12:47|| 2005-09-12 12:47|| Front Page Top

#19 My first guess was wrong BTW, KimberlyClark.com didn't have anything about that Sigzmoidal flow.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-12 13:04|| 2005-09-12 13:04|| Front Page Top

#20 WTF is this tread all about?
We are all on the same side.
REMEMBER united we stand, divided we fall.

Posted by Groluns Snoluter6338 2005-09-12 13:26|| 2005-09-12 13:26|| Front Page Top

#21 We're not all on the same side.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-12 13:32|| 2005-09-12 13:32|| Front Page Top

#22 I could not imagine what there was about this article to generate 19 comments -- now I know. Grow up, Mike, and go get yourself a web site so you can be master of your own destiny.

As a general rule, anyone who can't accept advice from TGA should get troll status.

Posted by Darrell 2005-09-12 13:35|| 2005-09-12 13:35|| Front Page Top

#23 Mike S.: I know you've been on Rantburg a long time, like me. So I know that YOU already know it gets dicey here from time to time--both regarding language, and regarding expressed feelings toward perceived enemies/enemy politics. If people here are beating you up--hit 'em back (in a manner of speaking). That's what makes for lively debate.

My two-cents is that I don't want to see Rantburg turn into a "politically correct" (as in whose politics?) slice of polite society. I need a break from that sort of thing, and so I come here. In fact, some of people in the O Club got me wrong a couple of weeks ago, and I let 'em have it. Thats's how it works. Otherwise, it's all gonna be posturing and tea cups. People have to be real, and when those guys hurt my feelings, I let them know, and I got some very useful answers to the problems I had after that.

Now if people can't be free, then Rantburg should be changed into a simple listing of articles--no comments. Or if the moderators don't have time to monitor the site, maybe they just need to say so, so others can get involved and take the load off.

Personally, I miss Aris. I miss the Troll brigades.

.com: " . . but why's the rum gone?"

Now, everyone be nice to Mike. It's going to get too homogenous around here without him. Besides, he's always been the way he is. So if you can't say anything nice--don't say it to Mike.

Now Mike, stop thinking everyone is going to be nice to you, and play with the ones you get along with.

Posted by ex-lib 2005-09-12 14:16|| 2005-09-12 14:16|| Front Page Top

#24 "Whoof whoof"

from the dog pack

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-12 14:17|| 2005-09-12 14:17|| Front Page Top

#25 urang?

Posted by Red Dog 2005-09-12 14:33|| 2005-09-12 14:33|| Front Page Top

#26 Pathetic, the lot of you!

Posted by Elmease Ebbith3301 2005-09-12 15:08|| 2005-09-12 15:08|| Front Page Top

#27 Yes! What EE said, bunch of damn meanies with no couth nor nuance. You'll be cut cold in any decent blog.

Hell with the dessert spoon gimme the big fork and the sharp knife.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-12 18:45|| 2005-09-12 18:45|| Front Page Top

#28 You reach for that big fork, Shipman, and you'll never have need of a dessert spoon again, y'hear me!?!

;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-12 20:06|| 2005-09-12 20:06|| Front Page Top

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