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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OK, bud.

Anyway, there is a very real chance that they will rule in favor of Trump and it is important to plan for that possibility. I think the recent behavior of this specific court has shown time and time again that they simply Do. Not. Care.

I'm not sure why you even took issue with what I was saying in the first place other than to just pick a fight. I never claimed to know the future, that entire thing was just a strawman. Starting to wonder if any of this is good faith.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not sure why you even took issue with what I was saying in the first place other than to just pick a fight.

I'm afraid you have the order of things wrong. This started when you took issue with what I had said. I was not talking to you when you initially replied to me.

So if anything, this is a question you should be asking yourself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not even fucking true dude, your first comment in this particular thread was a reply to mine taking issue with what I said.

How many sockpuppet accounts do you have at this point? I don't believe, for a moment, that there is anyone but you and I that cares enough about the comments this deep in an already meaningless argument to even bother reading, let alone upvoting/downvoting this far into this nonsense thread. I see you everywhere on this site, and now I think I have an idea as to why/how.

Good luck with all that, I guess. Everyone needs a hobby.

[–] FlyingSquid 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is a lie.

And why on Earth do you think I have sockpuppet accounts?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is this your job?

And yeah I already told you. Nobody but you is downvoting comments this far deep in such a banal and pointless thread from several days ago, and my comments aren't at 0, they're lower than that.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't downvoted anything. That is another lie.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No more than lying is your job, but you seem to enjoy doing it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do hope you get paid for this. Otherwise it's just kind of sad to be honest. I hope everything is ok with you in real life.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretending you care about me after those lies is a lot sadder.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"All those lies"

ie: misremembering the specifics of a pointless argument from 4 days ago that I don't even remember was about.

Fucking weirdo

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting how your 'misremembering' was done with such absolute certainty. Almost as if it was a lie.

You know, when you said this, not four days ago but today:

That’s not even fucking true dude, your first comment in this particular thread was a reply to mine taking issue with what I said.

That sure sounds like a lie to me.

Also, I have not called you any names at all. Why are you reducing this to pointless namecalling?

Was this just one long, elaborate troll?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Been some time since I've used lemmy on a web browser, but unless I'm mistaken, if you were logged into your FlyingSquid account when this screenshot was taken, the username would be highlighted in some way.

This literally looks like a screenshot of you using a sockpuppet account lol

[–] FlyingSquid 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, well you are the expert here. It was definitely the sockpuppet accounts I must have. That couldn't possibly be another one of your lies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You literally posted a screenshot where your comments are upvoted despite not being logged into that account... Again with this "lies" shit. It's real weird, dude. Why the fuck would I lie when I don't even know what this thread was even originally about at this point? I misremembered how it began, because it was a throwaway comment I made 4 fucking days ago.

It's funny, because I see your comments around and I often agree completely with what you're saying. I have found it very bizarre and bemusing that you've continued with this strangely antagonistic comment thread for so long.

Are you an LLM? Lol only half joking.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago

I have found it very bizarre and bemusing that you’ve continued with this strangely antagonistic comment thread for so long.

That's an interesting thing to say coming from the person who revived the thread after four days.