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Okay, look buddy -
You spinning up a new alt every few weeks to whine about your lack of sexual success is not strictly against the rules, though you're bordering on single-issue posting and we dislike alt-churning, which means the next time you create a new account to repeat the cycle we may not let it out of the new user filter.
This top level itself did not violate any rules though it did incur the displeasure of many people reporting it. There is a certain entertainment value in a good blackpill rant, but not everyone finds them entertaining, especially as the problem with blackpillers is that they take themselves very, very seriously and become increasingly irate when they realize other people do not.
Which is where you are now, heading in a predictable direction, which is getting belligerent and insulting towards everyone who argues with you and sounding like the penultimate act of The Feminist. You're filling the queue now because everyone from those politely disagreeing with you to those offering well-intentioned advice is getting snarled at or told they're lying about their own life experiences.
Knock it off. Take a breath. Touch grass. But mostly, accept that other people's perspectives may not match yours, and if you want to doompost, you still need to engage with civility and the same charity you would like to be extended to you.
God that's a weird read.
Yeah, it veers between "well I kinda feel sorry for the guy" to "he deserves it". The end seems to be strongly implying he's gonna do a Canadian University mass killing via suicide bombing?
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I find it difficult to believe that I've been churning alts on the Motte when I've quite literally never made a post on here before this. I'd appreciate some enlightenment on my alter egos which I've been miraculously unaware of until this very moment in time. I mean, I admit, the topic isn't terribly original, but this is probably the first time I've been accused of being an alter of someone else I have absolutely no prior knowledge of by a moderator.
I don't feel that I'm taking myself overly serious or anything. Other people make covert insinuations about my motive for posting one thing or another, I make my own set of insinuations about them right back.
Interesting short story, not sure how it applies to me other than "believes that attractiveness disparities exist = bad" which is a pretty hilarious connection to make for a moderator on the forum that exists because they got kicked off every other place on the internet for having heterodox beliefs on cultural issues (which in practice just mean lacking the freedom to scream about IQ and muh based Christianity all day) but that's pretty typical from conservatives, so I'm not really all that surprised.
If calling out an obvious liar who is lying specifically to try and make their point seem more credible gets me banned, so be it.
You should take your own advice, mon ami.
I do not believe for a second this is your first rodeo. But in any case, I cannot make you heed my warning. The course from here is up to you.
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