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426 - Emry
The entity formerly known as Vox Populi has had his moniker removed from the thread: BUSH'S IRAQ PLAN - SAME OLD, SAME OLD, and replaced it with the name...Dave Nalle.
Originally there were 7 posts by Dave Nalle and 5 by Vox Populi. The thread has been...altered, and like an unpopular member of the old Soviet Union leadership, Vox Populi has been erased.
Not to worry though, Vox Populi was a bit of an idiot and won't be missed at all.
427 - S.T.M
BTW: While we're on the topic of alter egos, has anyone worked out who Emry is yet??
No? Try harder ...
428 - Dave Nalle
I have a good guess who Emry is. It was down to two people before I figured out that one of them is still posting under their other name, plus the other one only sounds like a socialist half the time because he's a unionist throwback of some sort, while Emry sounds like a communist shill all the time.
Dave
429 - Emry
Here are a couple of "edited" posts from Saturday night. It's Nalle and Driveby working as a team once again. Driveby didn't have much to say to me other than, "UP YOURS ASSHOLE".
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#426 " February 3, 2007 @ 23:57PM " Driveby
Can something be done about Driveby. Think it's deplorable, despicable, offensive, and down right ugly.
#427 " February 4, 2007 @ 00:06AM " Dave Nalle [URL]
Emry, I already explained that. Stop spamming the threads with it.
As for Driveby, his posts so far contain more intelligent content than many from certain other users, and they're clearly heartfelt.
Dave
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IF YOU LIKED DRIVEBY'S POSTS WHY DID YOU DELETE THEM, NALLE?
430 - Dave Nalle
Emry, are you mentally challenged? How many times have I said that I don't delete posts that aren't spam?
So if I don't delete posts and posts were deleted, did I delete them? And if I didn't delete them, might they have been deleted by Chris Rose whose job it actually is?
Gosh, maybe so.
dave
431 - Emry
Nalle, are you suggesting Chris Rose was posting as Driveby?
432 - Clavos
Emry, Take your witch hunt to someone else's thread. This one's supposed to be about Hugo Chavez, missy.
433 - Emry
Which thread is off limits to Dave(Vox Populi)Nalle's "EDITORIAL POWERS"?
434 - Dave Nalle
Emry, you're being a moron. If you like I'll take on the role of Senior Politics Editor and do what plenty of people think I should be doing and start deleting the off topic comments.
Dave
435 - Emry
Nalle, have you counted the number of people who think you can't be trusted with "editorial power"?
I'm surprised you have any time left to delete off topic comments when you're so busy altering...editing your Vox Populi posts.
436 - Christopher Rose
Dave: re your 434 - you don't have the right to do that and there is no requirement for posters to rtemain on topic so let's rein in that attitude shall we? Oh yes we will!
437 - Clavos
Hugo Chavez
438 - moonraven
Not to mention that old Free Speech Dave (free for him and his multiple identities) tried using his "editorial powers" to ban me from posting. Of course he lies and denies, but I saw him doing it--and saw the process that sends a "banned" poster to another site while blocking posts to the one we are on.
Dave is a fucking fascist. Free speech, my ass!
439 - moonraven
Okay, clavos:
Saturday, Feb 03
Venezuela's Chavez Sets Oil Fields Takeover for May; Says Bush Should Resign
on www.venezuelanalysis.com
YOU should be saying Bush should resign.
IT appears there is only one set of huevos on the planet....and they belong to Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias.
440 - Clavos
Dave is a fucking fascist
Says the elderly hippie communist from her villa in Cuernavaca.
441 - moonraven
Clavos, Since you invaded my privacy several months ago you know full well I don't live in Cuernavaca.
My behavior does not indicate an ideological preference. Dave's and yours do: fascism.
If I am "elderly", you're dead and shouldn't be bothering us from the grave. In my case, age equals wisdom.
And for those of you stupid enough to believe old Dave when he insisted a few threads ago that
Chavez was whiter than he is: Check out the 1992 photo of him on www.aporrea.org today--with the remains of his afro.
442 - Dave Nalle
Not to mention that old Free Speech Dave (free for him and his multiple identities) tried using his "editorial powers" to ban me from posting.
Lying bullshit. You have been TOLD by other editors that this is not true, so why bring up the lie again?
Dave
443 - moonraven
The "moderator", Chris, said that you had not asked him to ban me.
That's true: You have the power to block postings and you tried to abuse it. I saw it happen.
It is clear to EVRYONE who frequents this site that you lie CONSTANTLY.
You show me one instance where I have lied. It may get you to see that there is a big difference between an honest person and a liar like you. But it won't change things. As I told you before--once you've done it you are no longer a virgin.
444 - Christopher Rose
moonraven: Although Dave could in theory block posters through the comments tool, I don't believe either that he has or would. For one thing I'd kick his virtual ass!
Although I disagree with him more than I agree with him on a political level, I don't believe he's a liar. I do think his political philosophy leads him into to some extremely odd debating and political positions but he's not the only persistent pol here that's guilty of that.
In the meantime, I'd be most grateful if you too could voluntarily support my call for rather more mutual respect and basic civility on the site than we've seen lately. Let's have more dialectics and less animosity. That way you lot can debate all night long while I relax and enjoy myself!
445 - moonraven
You did NOT kick his virtual ass, and I watched as the little subtitles at the bottom sent my post into the garbage and sent me to another site entirely. And one of the little words in the string was "banned".
One of the biggest frustrations of anyone trying to post INFORMATION on any of these threads is the immediate barrage of name-calling on the part of Dave, his insistent lying and his generally offensive manipulations.
I would be more than willing to speculate that if you take a sampling of threads with a lot of posts you will be able to see when someone loses it with Dave's insistent bullying.
If you haven't noticed this behavior, then YOU should be replaced as monitor with someone with 20/20 vision.