beeline wrote:Yes. We all have faults. I am loaded with faults. The only real difference between mamot, myself and anyone else is that marmot made his faults public. We are all a few keyboard strokes away from doing that.
Marmot being on the ground in Pittsburgh gives him a unique perspective on the G20 protests. However, I believe he has been chased from RI, which is unfortunate.
How very civilized of you. Tell me, beeline: Would you say that a male high school student who got kicked off the debate team for yanking down the panties of some girl who happened to be his opponent during a match he lost because he flubbed his rebuttal to her had been chased from the competition, which was unfortunate?
Because frankly, I really, really don't appreciate being blamed for marmot's inability to man up and take responsibility for offenses that were committed by him and not by me. I also really, really don't appreciate the historical revisionism, btw. As you should be able to see perfectly well without reviewing any sources other than this thread, nobody chased anybody anywhere. Admin (ie, Jeff) gave marmot an I-expect-you-to-apologize fair warning, which marmot chose to ignore. Entirely by his own free agency and without any help from me.
In short, I agree that we all have our faults. But we don't all have each other's. So I'd be much obliged to you if in future you paused to give a moment's thought to the question of who was at fault for what before you started announcing your beliefs wrt to the cause-and-effect dynamic that led to marmot's unfortunate absence from this thread.
beeline wrote:You could be right bph, maybe I'm letting my own feelings get in the way. FWIW, I didn't really follow the interactions between marmot and c2w? too closely, other than what went on in this thread. I've got enough negativity on the home front already.
I'm sincerely sorry to hear that you're having negativity on the home front. Also, I don't fault you at all for feeling a natural inclination to stand by your friend. And I apologize for the yield-no-quarter tone of this post, which is not in any way expressive of anger at you or of any other personally hostile feelings. I just absolutely refuse to take the fall for what were in fact marmot's bad acts toward me and not my bad acts toward marmot. As I'm sure you can understand.
Thanks.
c2w
