Sometimes, when someone displays their intelligence, you’re terrified because it’s revealed that there is absolutely none, not a single goddamn smudge of gray matter there

if someone is running around calling people ableist slurs, it says more about them than anyone they’re defaming

I agree, which is why it’s horrific that you’re calling me cretinous, when, by your own admission, you see it as an ableist slur. Very sad, even.

I believe it was you who started,

So if someone uses what you regard as an ableist insult, you think it’s appropriate to use that same ableist insult against them? Wow. I’d hate to hear your opinions on the r-word.

also I didn’t even call you anything, just observed that you are supreme authority on the matter

Then we’re in agreement that the .ml admins are cretinous, since I’m the supreme authority on the matter. Thank you for affirming my opinion, strange that you would go through all this trouble just to agree with me though. :)

hardly, I’m just pointing out that you’re clearly speaking as the most authoritative person on the subject

But your claim of my authority is that I am cretinous, which is an ableist insult according to you.

It seems it takes very little to get you to whip out the ableist insults. That’s pretty disgusting, ngl.

I draw the line at ableist insult, but if you want to insult people like that I’m just going to assume you’re doing so from a position of experience.

If it’s an ableist insult, like you claim, wouldn’t that mean you’re insulting me on ableist terms?

Good.

If it “Takes one to know one”, then you are not merely affirming that I’m vile and cretinous, you are also necessarily affirming that my recognition of the .ml admins as vile and cretinous is correct by regarding my qualities as necessarily granting me insight as to whether or not the admins share said qualities.

I understand that might be too complex for you to parse on short notice, considering your previous difficulty with discerning the meaning of plainly stated reasons in the form of the written word regarding the 196 issue, but I’m sure that if you sit and ponder it for a few hours, it might eventually click.

you’re really not doing much to disprove my original point tbh

Your original point showing that you know nothing about the 196 split and that you baselessly spread slander about 196 not respecting neopronouns?

That original point is already long disproven.

if so then it surely takes one to know one

So we’re in agreement that the .ml admins are vile and cretinous. :)

we already established if you were calling them from Crete it would be Cretans,

Correct, which is why your objection was baseless.

you’re just insulting them and now me.

I never denied insulting them. The .ml admins are absolutely vile and cretinous.

you called them ‘cretins’ which is an ableist insult, and I said I don’t think they’re from crete

Implying that being from Crete is a disability, which it is not.

maybe try insulting people less?

Maybe try being less cretinous.

I was just pointing out that your first response was ableist insult,

I thought you were trying to say it was an insult based on some form of nationality. You did, after all, say, and I quote

I don’t think they’re from Crete, maybe you should try insulting people less in the future?

Unless being from Crete is a disability, you didn’t point out, real or attempted, anything regarding ableism.

Excellent! 👌 that’s the garum I’m talking about ! And did any Roman emperor got taxes crazy?

Empire-wide taxes were harder to implement, but there are definite examples of more ‘tax-happy’ Emperors! In the Late Empire (the ‘Dominate’) it got particularly bad, but in the Early Empire (the ‘Principate’, what most people think of when they think ‘The Roman Empire’), most new taxes were implemented locally. The Principate, in general, found it easier to make demands of local governments, and then have those local governments do the necessary legwork to figure out how to get the money.

Two of the most hated taxes were actually implemented by the first Emperor, Augustus. One on slave auctions, and one on inheritances. The Emperor Vespasian though, famously, implemented a tax on urine collection in the city of Rome (as it was used in bleaching and leatherworking), to his son’s disgust!

Much of the time, Roman Emperors in financial trouble would resort to selling off parts of the imperial household, seizing the property of their political enemies, or debasing the currency over raising new taxes, though. Taxes cause unrest, and unrest can be quite deadly for a ruler!

Btw if you don’t mind me asking, how are you so knowledgeable in the Roman Empire? Are you a time traveler ?

I sacrificed basic life skills in exchange for an obsession with minute historical trivia.

I can’t change the oil on a car, but I can tell you all about Ancient Rome!

It’s incredibly irresponsible to tell the truth if it makes China look bad. Zelenskyy is going to get banned from .ml now 😔

it’s called /all I hadn’t bothered the block the new 196 so it showed up, I commented because I took it as some earnestly asking for advice, rather than a cj thread

And then proceeded to complain about the ban in YePowerTrippingBastards, citing the 196 sidebar rules in your complaint. Clearly you had no clue where you were. :)

I don’t think they’re from Crete, maybe you should try insulting people less in the future?

Someone from Crete is a Cretan, not a cretin. If you’re going to loudly trumpet your position as ESL as a deflection of your own inability to parse basic English conversations, maybe you should take a step away from trying to correct the English of others.

maybe you should tell me what your narrative is then

Exactly what the 196 mods said, if you’d bothered to read literally any of the stickied posts that came up at the time. There was disagreement with the admins over how to moderate 196, especially regarding ban lengths and presumption of good faith.

But of course, you didn’t read any of it. You made up a narrative that you suited your pre-existing biases, and proceed to spread it even though, but your own admission, you didn’t follow the issue - apparently at all. Of course, you also claimed that you don’t use 196 despite having been banned from 196, so maybe you aren’t the most reliable narrator. :)

Ask your cretinous .ml admins to site ban me again from an instance I don’t even post on for the sin of thinking that Ukrainians and Uyghurs are people. :)

I said that was the reason they left, because it was a huge debacle that nobody could miss when it happened.

You didn’t miss it, but apparently, you were completely incapable of parsing what was going on. Which is unsurprising coming from someone who bootlicks dictators and thinks that’s leftism. :)

instead of of making up shit

lmao, coming from someone who’s claiming the 196 move was over .world not respecting neopronouns, when respecting neopronouns is still a rule on the .world 196 and has been since day 1 of the move.