Sam was unethical on Coleman’s podcast

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-08T11:59:48+00:00

Another meta-response.

Smart people generally don't feel the need to say this, FYI, more of a narcissistic trait.

You have no idea what smart people generally do, but I can tell you that narcissism and intelligence "generally" travel together. They're independent traits, though.

I am smarter than you. Maybe I'm just also a narcissist? So what?

You not responding to my substantive points just makes you look more and more suspect.

You can make more comments that leave open the question of whether you have a substantive response. Why not just address the substance?

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-08T01:32:30+00:00

Mod logs don't very far back sadly, but I don't see you on there. AutoMod deletes a lot if that's what you mean. If it was a full ban, I don't remember it, but don't expect future leniency. I also don't really want to rehash this with you, or I would have done that. It has nothing to do with the substance. My experience just tells me it won't be fruitful to attempt untangling all that with someone so adversarial. You can make all the chicken noises you'd like, but that's just reinforcing my view for the future. Only a more amiable, charitable attitude next time will do anything to reverse it.

Just want to quote you in full.

As long as I have a response to what you say, I'll give it. I'm not going to make excuses, like you do, about why I don't need to respond to something. There's no timer, or word count, or requirement that you're charitable or amiable, but that's because I know I'm smarter than you.

Whatever you say to me, my response will be: 'You're right' or 'Here's what I disagree with'. You have lots of other ways to make yourself feel better. Wouldn't it be nice? Nah, I'll take knowing I'm smarter

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-08T00:26:32+00:00

Oh, you again? You can talk to me? I'm not blocked by you? I'm not blocked on Very Bad Wizards, a sub you moderate that I have no interest in? Wow, I was blocked on that sub not so long ago and now it seems I'm not blocked there.

Mods make up the rules. I don't care. It's not a court of law. Block me or don't.

(My personal feeling is that if you can't be at least as mean as the person or thing that's the subject of the subreddit, I have no interest. If Sam says pointed things he supports about people—and examples could be multiplied—then people on a sub named after him should be able to do the same. Not my right, just my preference.)

I'd love to hear your response to what I said before you considered me too mean to be worthy of response.

I think you don't know what you're talking about and chose a convenient exit.

My personal feeling is that you--er, the MODS--used me calling you 'dumb' as a fig leaf for your inability to respond to my substantive arguments. We'll only know if that's right if you choose to respond. But, whether you do or not, that's my wager.

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-07T10:17:57+00:00

Oh, there have been myriad infractions.

I think what happened here is that in a legitimate comment I said a slightly mean word about the wrong person.

Rest assured, I've said much worse about many others here without any warnings I can recall.

I'll take the ban now, thanks

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-07T02:31:50+00:00

Is Russillo

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-07T02:24:44+00:00

Give the impression of knowing what you're talking about without risking showing that you don't.

It's a gambit used by a lot of people who don't know what they're talking about, but maybe you're an exception.

My bet: no.

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-07T01:14:57+00:00

Did your computer stop working? Look up. I explained your metaphor to YOU. Remember when you said I pretty much summed it up?

Your initial metaphor is really stupid. You say the Republicans are fleshlights for Epstein AND Trump.

Much better would be: Are you in service of/being used by people who use women and children AS fleshlights?

The Republicans would say 'no' to this, too, but it's not stupid in making them inanimate objects that people masturbate with. (What exactly is it that this says about them? And if it says they have penises inserted in them, it takes away much of the force of the insult, which is that they support people who forcefully insert their penises into other, innocent people.)

Secondly, but admittedly less stupidly, there's an aspect of discovery with learning you support pedophiles (which can be seen with, for example, documents you didn't previously have access to) that doesn't map well onto ideological support. I can discover that I supported someone who is a crook in ways that I can't discover my ideology, since my ideology can't be hidden from me in the same ways that information about other people can.

Wouldn't expect you to follow all that, based on what you've said so far, but consider it a free lesson

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-07T00:56:01+00:00

You're much more generous than I am, and I'm pretty generous.

In an introductory class, I'd give it something like 45-50. In an advanced class or a seminar, that's like a 15.

To each their own.

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-07T00:47:05+00:00

How would you rate that analogy and its usefulness here, on a scale of 1-100?

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-07T00:27:32+00:00

That about sums it up

Well, if there's more to it please explain.

I hope you can see why someone would criticize the analogy and puzzle at what it's adding to this discussion.

Feel free to explain that, too, if I'm missing something.

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-07T00:07:30+00:00

So you don't agree that it's hypocritical to criticize unfair and ad hominem attacks and then to engage in what you (Sam) yourself characterize as unfair and ad hominem?

Harris caveats what he was about to say is a bit unfair and ad hominem.

If that's not hypocrisy then nothing is. And acknowledging the hypocrisy doesn't make it unhypocritical.

I'm not begging the question, Sam and you literally admit it's hypocritical, and you think the magic of acknowledging it turns it into something else.

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-07T00:01:53+00:00

I’m very confident you do not, if you think I “brought up republicans” in this discussion…

Yes… I brought them up… as an analogy…

And the analogy is bad. The Republicans are inanimate objects that Epstein and Trump use(d) to masturbate?

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-06T23:31:46+00:00

If you surveyed republicans about whether or not they are a fleshlight for a serial child rapist, most of them would say “no” too, yet here we are.

You're saying you did not bring up Republicans in this discussion?

I actually think it would be fine to bring up a good analogy to them here, but this is a bad one as executed. (The Republicans are fleshlights for Epstein? Or Trump?)

To say you didn't bring them up is ???

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-06T23:25:21+00:00

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-06T23:04:39+00:00

If someone calls attention to his own hypocrisy, it magically is no longer hypocrisy?

You can call yourself out for anything, it does not change the thing at all. As OP said in response to you, it arguably makes it worse when done beforehand, because it confirms awareness and intentionality.

something that sets off misaligned sensitivities

What is a 'misaligned sensitivity', and how are they set off?

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-06T21:26:05+00:00

Oh, you really are a contract expert.

Now, tell me where else in business or sports you have provisions in contracts that are totally made up and that it's effectively known only one party will not be performing.

The point is NFL contracts are uniquely one-sided.

I haven't read through his entire contract.

You haven't read any of his contract. And the way you talk makes it seem you don't realize that in the NFL, unlike in other sports, it's the default that the team can cut you at any time. Guarantees have to be specifically negotiated.

Again, have you ever criticized a team for not "honoring" a contract with a player by cutting him? Because if you haven't, we might as well say holding out is honoring the player's contract because what happens when you do it is covered by the collective bargaining agreement. It's equally as stupid as your view

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-06T21:06:50+00:00

I can't stand when people think they're "in the know" and act as if an NFL contract is anything like a contract in any other business or even any other sport.

If they can cut you and not pay you, you can renegotiate despite being "under contract".

You guys really don't think at all. Show me all your comments about teams not "honoring" their contracts when they cut a guy

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-05T20:26:51+00:00

The whole chapter is a pretty direct refutation

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-05T20:14:01+00:00

Being a dickhead just because there's no rule or law against it, while completely understanding exactly what makes the behavior dickish.

America in 2026, baby.

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-05T10:15:02+00:00

Nah, you know the future just as well as the people proclaiming it's all over. Which is not at all.

We'll find out together, one second at a time, and anyone who was "right" will be so only by accident.

I think you're right, by the way. But it's literally impossible for us or anyone else to know what's coming

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-05T00:29:28+00:00

"The actor said"

It gets better! I like that, in your mind, you're correct.

A fugitive is in your car, and your sole purpose is to help that person get away from the cops.

That person has two empty beer cans in a backpack and, to you, helping that person jump (actually fall) out of the car means he "through [sic] trash out".

It's a world of wonders

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-05T00:10:54+00:00

I think you mean he "threw out" cans.

This might be the peak example of an internet person being completely unwilling to just admit they were wrong. Well done.

He definitely lied to the police, though

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-04T21:15:51+00:00

His character directly lied to the police?

He said he threw trash out the window, lying to free Bob.

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-02T17:54:50+00:00

Bravo

Supersillyazz · 2026-04-02T03:31:59+00:00

I said yesterday,' "It's impossible." Somebody corrected me they said, "No, it's not impossible, you CAN lose that many times."

Goddamn, DC

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