Sunday, February 16, 2014

ARFcom commenters complain.

I'm either a. A stereotype-reinforcing loon; b. I am rambling and incoherent, or c. I am unfair to those with attention deficit disorder. Or, d. all of the above.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Funny, Karl Denninger is saying the same thing today that you said yesterday:

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=228556

Anonymous said...

Pay no attention to ARF, or only with a grain of salt.
There are far too many trolls and 12 year olds.
Keep up your good work.

michael said...

ARFcom commenters are a bit disjointed and ambiguous. A few fence riders that makes me laugh.

Tits McGee said...

So what. Your essay is dead on, and when I see guys like Matt Bracken back you, it warms my heart. Don't sweat th neckneards and basement dwellers.

Anonymous said...

There is intelligent life at ARFcom:

"My friends in the NYSP are worried, they want no part of this, and many are prepared to refuse orders and resign. They fear the governor and the AG are building task forces to go after gun owners much like drug task forces."

Anonymous said...

BARF.COM is filled with keyboard commandos, not worth a second of your time.

CzarChasm said...

Mike, A post I just made at ARF.com was #238 in the thread, and it was the first one to include a single link to the letters you've sent to Lawlor (I included all four links). It's amazing such an argument can rage on with so little context and/or knowledge of what preceded the letter to the State Police that they're (ostensibly) discussing.

Anyway, the post can be viewed here if you're interested:

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1593117_III_percenter_open_letter_to_the_Conn__PD.html&page=5#i45739911

Hope I got it pretty close to right. I know I got closer than anyone else in the thread.

Praying for you and yours....

Grantmeliberty said...

I read through their 5 pages of posts and found some good supporters, the best this (Monday) morning, Blues Stringer, also linking your previous letters to Lawlor. Don't let the crybabies get you down. Pretty funny some were still clueless about the IIIpers and somehow connected us with the 1% Illuminati types. Someone was really confused and mentioned that you were fitting the role of a character in one of Matt Bracken's books of a guy with cancer and nothing to lose kicking off the chaos. I seem to recall that in Absolved, not in Matt's books.
Still , we have to look to Jesus' example and forgive them all because they truly don't know what they've doing and because as He taught us in His prayer, our own sins are forgiven as we forgive those who sin against us.

SWIFT said...

There are shills on every board, some are not even paid. What amazes me is the amount of time wasted on them. Want to break a shill's balls?(If he has any to start with) Ignore them.

Anonymous said...

There are lots'a good folks over at arfcom, although it's true that in recent years, the site has indeed suffered from trolling, tyrannical-minded, gun-owning lib's & statist JBT's. Overall, however, you'll still find more patriots than $hit-birds - and much good info in the technical & survival forums. That thread was in the GD (general discussion) section, where the majority of the idiots hang out.

I can assure you that a whole lotta members agree with what you say/have said, here, yet they have also (perhaps prudently) chosen not to say so publicly on a site that is most assuredly watched as closely as arfcom.

Anonymous said...

I think that one good point was made over there, Mike, and that's (some of) the criticism regarding your writing style.

May I _respectfully_ submit that before hitting the "send" button, you walk away for a few minutes, then reread your letters (from as impartial a point of view as you can muster), editing out much of the rage/personal insults as possible? As much as I agree with what you say, that language often comes across as irrational, unstable ranting and I highly doubt many of your intended recipients will wade in and/or attempt to truly absorb/comprehend the good points you (repeatedly) make. That's a shame, too, because you DO make excellent points and they'd be well-advised to listen, learn and understand "our" perspective and grasp the depth of our resolve.

I humbly offer these thoughts with the highest regard for what you've sacrificed and endured, as the ferocious patriot you undoubtedly are and I thank you for those efforts with all my heart.

Meister said...

The first thing I tell new gun owners is to never register or read ARF.com. It's misinformation and airsoft junkies trolling for high post numbers. After all, I can be a 120# perfect looking blonde with big boobs on the internet. Most of the people who post there are disingenuous at best and lying sacks of excrement at worst. I can't count the number of times I've had to deprogram louts that belong to ARF and believe the lies they pass. It's the land or Geardo's and mall ninja's. For every decent poster, there are 3 more that haven't a clue about being a rifleman. If they were to sully my reputation, I would take it as a resounding positive indication of my righteousness.

Anonymous said...

SWIFT,

You are exactly right.

Anonymous said...

That place is like the /b/ board at 4chan. It will melt your mind.

Anonymous said...

Swift, here is the problem with ignoring them - look at Illinois. For a long time, Illinois corruption was ignored. Written off as a list cause, especially on the gun front, and what happened? The cancer spread to Washington, D.C. It's name is Obama.

For too long, too many have ignored the idiocy thinking that most people saw right through it all. Over time, fence sitters bent their way because when unchallenged, their talking points become convincing. Basically, the line was drawn but, like our southern border, nobody standing guard at that line made it basically meaningless.

Meant say "don't feed the trolls" but I say feed em till their stomachs explode.

True, it SHOULD be a situation where idiocy is dismissable but the hard reality today is that far too many are entirely too gullible and they succumb to the idiocy. In that light, we must teach them - especially by directly confronting that idiocy everywhere it presents itself.

Anonymous said...

Mike, the people who complain about your writing style are unwittingly indicting their own reading skills. I'm reminded of the scene from "Amadeus" when Salieri persuaded the emperor that a Mozart composition was too long.

"Tell me which notes to take out" exposed the ignorance and absurdity of that.

You keep doing what you're doing and interjecting your personality and your passion into your writing. That's what makes your stuff so damn interesting, so worth reading to those who can recognize and appreciate the nuances, and so instructive even to those who can't.

Anonymous said...

Mike, this post can be posted or not, obviously your choice.

You and David both take heat sometimes and some of it is actually healthy it keeps you honest. Fine. But sometimes it is indeed over the top. This Arf Arf Arf is one example but is like to point out another.

Free republic.

There is this CHUMP over there named "humblegunner" who is openly attacking David and you too. Maybe you know this already and choose to disregard him BUT I know that David loses hits because his material gets posted there WHILE this humblegunner INSTANTLY tells people NOT to go to the source site. Your stuff is often posted in full there too, hampering your ability to know just how widely your material is being read.

It's one thing to have all that going on but it's another when Jim Robinson PROTECTS that little piece of shit named humble gunner as he actually directs people NOT to visit the source site - all while Jim Rob solicits donations from people to keep the lights on. That means he's making bucks and his little BIOTCH named humblegunner literally attacks David PERSONALLY.

YEAH, I do that here in this post, though I RARELY even curse in comments. I'm sick of that PUKE talking shit with impunity. This post about David especially is just too much. I suggest David tell Jim Rob that his little Brownshirts attacks have cause FR to be unable to post David's Material beyond two sentences.

"If homeboy was any good, somebody would hire him.

Sure, he’s sincere. He’s fighting the good fight.

But Examiner blog makes him look like a clown."


That's humblegunners quite about David.
So I ask this - why allow Jim Rob the ability to post material for FREE when his own little PET is empowered to get away with that shit?

I've read that site for many years and know this much - it would cause a stir and make a point to stand up to this in one way or another. Humble gunner hates blogs for whatever reason but the dripping irony of his name and his actions there should not be ignored.

Do as you will but I think at least a defense of David by you is in order. THAT would no doubt be posted at FR as well. And I would love to see the gunner humbled on his own turf....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3124087/posts

As is demonstrated in that thread, humble gunners comments are often thread killers. That serves nobody well. I offer that some of your literary device use could go a long way to helping out both David and his reputation there at FR. It would be an especially nice thing to see humble gunners never ending attacks stifled by the actual people he so often attacks when they aren't there to defend themselves.

How about finding out if he has the courage of his convictions to call you guys out right to your faces? Or if he folds like the cheap, empty, smelly suit that he is.....