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The difference is between fraud charges and fraud claims is pedantic and not how I think. I reject your dichotomy as I reject most dichotomies. This could have been an informative post with you correcting me and explaining the difference. Instead you decided to be an ass as your the default. I suppose that is good evidence against future behavior that you do. MKC's default behavior is to find any disagreement and try to be right no matter what, without helping anyone learn anything.
And yet the difference between criminal charges and not exists regardless.
I was illustrating how in your argument against democracy, where you essentially propose yourself as an enlightened individual unlike those Karens, you failed to understand some very basic concepts and terms. It's a great irony. Had you not approached with the ego that you were better than the rest there, perhaps you would not need to be humbled when you messed up such simple parts.
Right, so this is actually the real reason. You want to humble me. You took 1 word, mentioned 1 time in my 2,485 word train-of-thought pseudo-diary entry, submitted without proof-reading, spell-check, or LLM-proofing, after midnight because I couldn't sleep as I was brooding about the preceding several days, and decided to raise a massive stink about it. You might want to do some soul searching to determine if you are really the arrogant one, and this is all just a massive amount of projection.
Yes because being a pedantic wordcell is the height of enlightenment. Of course! How did I not know in whose steps I needed to tread. I'm sure being a great lawyer or english teacher results in the best governance!
Yes, the real reason of me showing you some of your basic comprehension mistakes to demonstrate that you're not some smartiepants who knew everything compared to the other jurors who were stupid for checks notes disagreeing with you, was to do exactly that. Good job detective.
That might be your argument now, but I think HaG2 has you right on the money: You got hung up on the terminology but you basically can't admit it. You also seem to be going for maximum belligerence for no reason. Now I standby my earlier comment with the addition that being this places whipping boy has rotted your brain. You've somehow lost the plot of this forum.
No I'm actually a retarded midwit, as are you, as is probably the majority on this board. We all like to huff delusions of grandeur. So let me have my opinion and stay in your glass house nursing the apparent misanthropic grudge you've developed after catching a recent ban. I've sure this current behavioral track is super healthy and very conducive to not getting a ban again.
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