I hate how this guy used to capture my father's attention. He thought this guy was somehow some sort of authentic practitioner. He's just as corrupt as our local priests who work hand in glove with the local Republicans.

I came up with it on the fly.

AES states have good reason to be wary of Western missionaries, since the missionary often accompanied the merchant as the tip of the capitalist spear that was trying to penetrate new markets. They were often then followed by the marine and the artilleryman. After which, the economist would survey the worth of the rubble that came in their wake.

That's where they send them when Yonkers is full.

He saw the Gollum torture scene in Fellowship and thought that should be official policy at all black sites.

An opposition group, Coalition to Protect Kids-NY

Sounds like a collection of the most obnoxious white ethnics from Yonkers and Long Island. Real KoC Tony Baloney washouts.

I'm now waiting for the next pop culture thing that I don't understand to manifest itself out of the ether.

Maybe he's fixated on Karen Bass this week because she tweeted that he's a . Kinda like with Bette Midler.

This fish doesn't talk about the handsome Admirals, 1/10.

This is illegal in my state.

I mean, I'm generous in giving the benefit of the doubt to people who are so fixated on technical language. Sometimes people who spend a lot of time in academia focus too narrowly on only communicating with other academics. I try to be diplomatic that way. I don't like confrontation where people pick apart each other That was why in the spirit of the left unity we talk about here, I did emphasize things like radical democracy being one of my chief concerns. It is a very genuinely held belief of mine that helped me move from being a socdem/liberal to being a socialist.

But, I guess he felt my values weren't weren't firmly held enough to meet his standards. Now there are some philosophical questions I never really had looked for elaborate answers to, which made me feel unsatisfied, so I partially took his comment as encouragement to learn more. I don't think there was any sort of malice in him saying that, though I understand your concern given how we here on this site are so weary of people approaching us in bad faith.