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You having to resort to prompt generation to not Jewpost is not the defense you imagine it is.
I did it once in a comment reply as an obvious protest, my defense is that it is not something have I done to generate "normal" posts at all even a single time. That is just not true.
Your protest rings hollow because you can seemingly not talk about any subject without bringing them up!
I challenge you to go a month - even a week! - without connecting the subject at hand to the perfidy and scheming of the Hebrew race. And this is a challenge that I believe you will fail because my Noticing powers didn't just stop at FBI statistics.
Give me some credit. Don't treat me like I'm stupid. I don't understand why you have to keep up a pretense when you obviously have an agenda. Heck, I even agree with you sometimes. But you're the Jew guy. You talk about Jews. That's what you're known for. You're the Semitic Outrage Poster. The Israel News Hour. The Rabbi Amber Alert. You have 1400 posts in your history that are strong evidence that this is the case.
If you're going to try and evade this, even after that, against repeated interaction and very public history of such behaviour, that is probably the most Jewish thing anyone has ever done on the Motte.
Challenge rejected, my posts are appropriate for a Culture War forum, and I'm not obsessed with talking about them so much as the rest of the world is obsessed with not talking about them to the degree that ought be appropriate in any serious analysis of Culture War.
If you feel that you're the prophet in the wilderness in this, then you are obviously not here to debate, but to preach: and are self-evidentially an unserious person. There's really no good reason to seriously consider anything you have to say because you have a monomaniacal zeal on this one topic that you will never give ground on.
Crushedoranges, if you disagree with anything I have written anywhere you can hit the "reply" button and I will debate you. But you have shown up here to complain about me talking about Jews and not to debate.
People have done that. You ghost when you lose the debate, and then come back to repeat the exact same talking points a few weeks later. You've done this often enough that no one who has the wherewithal to debate you is willing to do it again, so you claim victory because no one will debate you and you pretend your arguments haven't been thoroughly dispensed with multiple times, going back years.
Can you cite an example of when I've ghosted a debate?
"Ghosting a debate" doesn't mean I neglect to reply to every single comment, or when I decide to give my opponent the last word. Feel free to cite one example when you think I've done what you've described, but you won't.
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And there's no point, because reducto ad iudaeus. If the root cause is the Jews, then debating the various means of how the Jews are at fault is both limited and uninteresting. (You allege they act through the WEF, I allege they act through the WTO: is there really a material difference to our positions?) And if they're not the root cause, and you refuse to accept that possibility, then what, exactly, are we debating?
I can't prove a null hypothesis. I can't prove that Jews aren't behind everything and there is no evidence that that possibly could. You may think yourself in an unassailable position but what you are really doing is being a bore that only talks about the Jews. There is no point debating you because you refuse to change your mind in the face of evidence to the contrary - or your standard of proof is so unrealistically high that nothing will convince you otherwise.
So, for emphasis: what is there possibly to debate, when all of your propositions end with the same conclusion? Don't try and squirm out of this, you reprehensible degenerate. Having the same answer to every question is not a superpower. 'The Jews Did It' is your only position of any substance, and I'm calling you out.
That's not a fact that can be debated on its terms: it's a strongly held belief on your part. And I can't reason you out of a belief or debate you into changing it. So sack up and do your big post on How The Jews Did It in the main thread: show us your revisionist history so the whole community can tear it apart.
If you can't, or don't want to, then shut the fuck up.
Everything you say about @SecureSignals is true, but you still cannot talk to people like that. He's allowed to do his tiresome thing as long as he follows the rules, and you need to be civil when responding.
It's absolutely not true, I would challenge him or you to cite anything I've written that matches that characterization. He shirked when I asked him to, and you're going to shirk as well. Not surprising that you put on mod hat to endorse a comment that breaks the rules and mischaracterizes my arguments.
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