pudge's Journal: CPD Again

I know he's trolling, but this is just too funny. He attacks me, so I ban him (as I have banned him before ... hell, the fact that he is evading a ban by changing nicknames is reason enough to ban him, but I decided to let him have a second chance).

So he says, "Many of us believe ... that you and those who hold your political opinions are not only incorrect, but dangerously neglegent (sic)." That "many of us" is him. He's said it before. Then he says, "If that's true ... you are not intelligent ... blah blah." His defense is that he used the conditional IF that is true. But he says it IS true, so the conditional is irrelevant to whether or not it is attacking of me: he is saying, "I believe you are not intelligent." This is too funny.

Then he tries to suck me in by attacking my employer and family, which just proves he is either trolling or insane. I am not sure which, and I don't much care. He's clearly proven himself incapable of not being attacking, insulting, and irrational, so he is gone. He's been discussed here several times before, and this is the last time. :-)

But the real reason I posted this is because he is completely delusional about the Commission on Presidential Debates! Now the conventions are over, and I wanted to bring them up again, and his lunatic ranting provides the opportunity. Look, this is simple fact: the CPD was created by the two parties, and it exists to serve them. There is no CPD apart from them. The CPD doesn't even attempt to enforce anything on the parties.

That they announce the debate dates is only a way to try to feign compliance with federal regulations about how the debates are sponsored. The way this works every election year since 1988 is that the two candidates get together and negotiate all the terms of the debate. Everything. Including the dates and number of debates. The CPD does not make that decision, and never has. Sometimes they accept the numbers and dates offered by the CPD, sometimes not.

Even in 1992 when Perot was in the debates, it was only because Bush wanted him in, and Perot was not allowed to negotiate. He was an invited guest of the Bush and Clinton campaigns, who made all the decisions, down to the sizes of podiums. Then in 1996, Dole's people gave Clinton everything he wanted -- including allowing one of the debates to be moved to the same night as the baseball playoffs, so fewer people would see it -- just to keep Perot out of the debates.

The CPD doesn't care, as long as the two candidates are happy. This year will be nothing different. It's not Bush's fault, anymore than it is Kerry's, or Clinton's, or Dole's, or Bush's, etc. It's a problem with both parties that needs to be fixed.

Hey, he made progress

[Red Warrior]

He actually made his own journal to make his messes in!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who voted for Davis. And amazed that my primary ballot got here yesterday.

Re:Hey, he made progress

[Jhon]

But the JE where he ragged on pudge allows no comments... sigh.

I actually predicted he was going to provoke pudge a few days ago and then whine about getting banned in a JE. He's a crank with a pudge fixation. [slashdot.org]

So I prefer to keep tabs on people like Pudge and Jhon, who work sometimes quite stealthily to inject their views into the mainstream discussions. I want to understand how much their fundamentalist influence can sway the typical slashdotter, and how they go about doing so.

He's on some type of de

Re:Hey, he made progress

[On Lawn]

He's got a Red Warrior fixation also [slashdot.org].

Re:Hey, he made progress

[Red Warrior]

His JE not allowing comments is ok. A smart tactical move on his part, too. :-)

You can say this about him

[M.C. Hampster]

At least he didn't claim that we can be sure they aren't the same person because when he types, he will only type in italics. [justinspence.com]

Re:You can say this about him

[Jhon]

Ok. I had no idea you were talking about. Then POOF. It hit my. Gave me a good laugh. Thanks!

so uhhh

[nocomment]

*digs in toe*

Can you un-ban people too? someone on my subnet was apparently trolling, and now I'm banned at home. :-(

I tried using an open proxy but I guess that's a no no as well. So I guess I just stay banned at home until it's lifted.

I'm looking forward to the debates, Bush got a bad wrap for being a moron in the first debate with Gore, but then was able to beat him up and make Gore look like a jerk in the 2nd and a little in the 3rd debate.

I just hope Bush can do it again. Hopefully people are sta

Re:so uhhh

[pudge]

This "ban" is just in regard to my journal, and has nothing to do with anything else. It just means I made him my Foe, and I set my journal to No Foes. That's all. Anyone who is a subscriber can do what what I did (IIRC, you can only set journals to No Foe if you are a subscriber). No accounts were impaired by me in any other way.

If you have banning problems, see the FAQ [slashdot.org]. I don't deal with that directly.