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And you're doing what?
Not answering debate bate.
I think you mean bait. Just trying to help.
Bait and bate are homonyms, sound the same but have different spelling and meanings.
bate /bāt/ transitive verb
bait /bāt/
noun
Neet.
That’s what I thought, debate bate.
And would you look at that! It comes with a bonus MAGA accusation! A two-fer!
I’ll digress…
If it might help you later on, it’s best not to make assumptions based entirely on someone’s unwillingness to argue with you online. It just ends up making you look like a fool. And we really don’t need that now when we’re supposed to be unified.
Just some friendly advice.
Also, if you were doing something that could make you a target you'd have to pretty fucking stupid to talk about it openly on the internet
Precisely.
Yeah right, real believable. Apparently it's perfectly safe to tell OTHERS to commit violence on the internet though. I guess the government draws the line there.
Go find something to do that doesn’t involve picking fights with people that have no respect for you.
Dude, WTF???
LOL, he's not doing shit and we all know it. So much big talk on the internet, it's pathetic.
He feels free to incite to others to commit violence, is that smarter?
LOL, "debate bate", this is a discussion forum. You're insulting me for using such a forum to engage debate?
Let's just be honest, you're deflecting because you don't want to answer my question.
Yes, your obvious deflection is akin to MAGA tactics, they do it all the time. You're doing AGAIN, right here.
Lol, you're so full of shit, what a joke. I'm not making an assumption, your refusal to answer IS an answer. You feel free to encourage others to get themselves killed while doing NOTHING yourself.
Just some friendly advice: everyone can see what's going on here. Pretending to be too high and mighty to engage in debate is a thin veneer for your clear unwillingess to answer a simple question.
Did it work?
Why not? I figured it was a nice counter to your ad hominem.
That sounds like something a narc would ask...
LOL, what the FUCK? How? That makes no sense.
Me asking some random person encouraging others to get killed what he is contributing makes me a "narc"?
These internet warriors are trying to incite violence from the safety of their keyboards. They deserve to be called out. And the fact that all you can respond with is a childish, irrelevant insult says it all.
"You want me to post my secret illegal plans on a public forum?"
"Oh crap, I shouldn't have said I had plans"
"Oh crap, I shouldn't have said they were secret"
"Oh crap, I definitely shouldn't have said they were illegal"
It’s ironic af that you accuse someone of childish insults, when all someone has to do is read further down to see your grandiose display of sheer vitriol.