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True, unless you go to the bother of finding a potent jailbreak or some OSS model tuned till the safety filters fall off. Unfortunately, I seem to recall @Amadan catching you using LLMs to generate "normal" posts and thus decrease the relative density of Joo-posting.
Sigh. With friends like these, who needs enemies? I feel like PETA would, if Hitler offered to do a public endorsement of vegetarianism. A very kind and humanitarian impulse, just... A lot of other things.
No, that was just one time I made an obviously generated comment reply (not a top-level post) to make a mockery of the dumb rule that was created to target me. It was an obvious protest and not something I have seriously done in any capacity.
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.
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