Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
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Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
18hr ago
Well, this is the point. Native speakers intuitively understand the difference between "I eat," "I am eating" and "I have eaten" and when to use them, even if they couldn't name the tenses. But to learn (or teach) English, it's a big help to explicitly name them.
Likewise the "royal order" of adjectives, or OSASCAMP. Most native speakers can't list it, they just know "brown big dog" sounds unnatural. But you need to know it to teach it and while you can pick it up through immersion, it will be faster to study a chart that actually explains it
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
21hr ago
You (and @ArjinFerman):
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If you suspect someone of being an alt, report it to us (people frequently do this when pressing the report button). It is much more effective and less annoying. We'll take it under advisement, though we won't necessarily (and probably will not) tell you if we decide someone is a ban evader. People suspect other posters of being alts all the time. Usually they are wrong, sometimes they are right, but publicly calling someone out like this is not productive. It just causes drama, especially the way you do it, in such a taunting "neener-neener I see you" manner.
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Length of account history is not a guarantee of not being an alt. Many people create multiple sockpuppets, sometimes going back years, just to establish account history and have backups in case their primary shit-stirring alt gets banned. They frequently brag about this to us when they get banned, and think they are demonstrating their great cunning, because we've surely never anticipated such a genius move.
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@omw_68, while on thin ice for other reasons (mostly bad faith attacks on other posters), is probably not Mr. Underappreciated Naturally Whitely Superior Genius Ebophile. That guy is in the category of people who cannot hide their light under a bushel--they always reveal themselves quickly. Most of our repeat obsessives underestimate how difficult it is to hide their obsessions and their writing style even when they are trying to fly under the radar. At any given time, we're aware of a number of alts who think we haven't noticed them yet. Generally our policy is to let them have enough rope. Fact is, subject matter alone is rarely a decisive tell, and guys who want to complain about progressives and specifically why progressives are terrible for disapproving of age gap relationships and prioritizing female preference are... not exactly rare on the Motte.
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@HereAndGone2 was never permabanned and is not ban-evading. If she had been, she would not be allowed to still post (she is another one who could never keep a mask on for very long). She has flounced several times and come back under a new name, which we allow because she doesn't exactly try to hide it. That said, her past record doesn't get wiped clean with a new account. Please behave yourself, Daoiseach-of-the-many-names, I would also hate to see you leave forever, even though you keep blaming me for your departures.
Beg to differ (coming in late because of reports) but my experience is closer to @asdasdasdasd's. I was around Rush and O'Reilly listeners in an even earlier era (Clinton). I definitely heard a lot of "Democrats hate America, liberals are a cancer, and you should cut off any family members who voted for Clinton." The rage was palpable, especially when he was reelected.
Ann Coulter was a big name at the time, and you may or may not remember this gem from 2002:
Now, Ann Coulter was and is a massive troll and I believe a lot of her act was performative grifting, but these were not isolated sentiments.
Of course I also saw the palpable rage from liberals when Bush was elected, and then reelected. But your version that conservatives just regarded liberals with a sort of benign contempt but no real animosity, and it was liberals who first got ugly and "bloodthirsty" about it, does not match my recollection.
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