This I don't get at all... must be really deep... and calls for a moonbeam analysis..
Help!!!
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I think I can, HJ. etech is something like Anandtech's Grand Inquisitor and Insane owing to his inordinate perspicacity has picked up on it. etech likes to direct a debate by taking command of the inquisition chair. I, etech, will ask the questions and from my lofty position dispense judgment on the quality of the answers or their lack. The questions generally take the form of, 'have you stopped beating your wife' or 'are you an idiot or a moron', or 'how do you justify being a traitor'. etc. Like any good diagnostician, Insane is prescribing etech's own medicine as described in these posts:
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Originally posted by: phillyTIM
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Originally posted by etech : I thought there wasn't any link between Iraq and Al Queada. Now you seem to be saying that there is. Interesting.
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I said nothing of the sort. Simply, I said that the Bush Regime's aggression in the Middle East would cause terroristic repercussions. I never linked Iraq to Al-Quaida. I think you should take care to not stick words in my mouth.
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No worries...that is quite the norm for etech... He seems to love taking someone's post's he disagrees with and trying to put words in people's mouths. Nothing new here...
Dude: i'm not sayin' S##T to you because you always turn around what i say into something i didn't. what i said is what i said: nothing more nothing less. from now on just consider that i'm not addressing you.
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Here insane makes this more concrete:
I warned you above....it's classic etech.
/etech mode
So, what are you saying? That you won't reply because you love Saddam? Are you saying you will say sh*t because you love gays?
/end etech mode
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And illustrates the technique again in the example that confused you, I think:
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I know it's hard to defend an indefensible position. Some do it with obfuscation, some resort to personal attack. In either case, the point still stands.
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Insane, in etech mode responds:
So..are you saying that by having an indefensible position, you like to dress up in woman's clothing and dance a little jig?
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True to form etech responds with another grab at Inquisitor:
No, I haven't tried that yet. Does it work for you?
A question he could easily answer for himself by knocking of the pirouetting and changing back out of his tutu.