Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic

Re:Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic by solotronics on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:14PM (#23630824)

"The CEO of EBay has people following me!" it sounds so ridiculous that I would immediately think the person telling me that has paranoid delusions but it was true.

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Re:Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic by stx on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:21PM (#23630945)

Thats the thing. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you." - Joseph Heller. Thanks to graton for the correction below.

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Re:Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic by graton on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:45PM (#23631293)

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Published (1961) before Kurt Cobain (and myself) was born.

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Re:Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic by stx on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:50PM (#23631359)

Thanks for the correction. I roughly knew the quote and when I googled it Kurt Cobain came back all over the place.

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Re:Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic by Joeboy on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:09PM (#23633248)

While it definitely predates Nirvana, it doesn't appear in Catch-22.

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Re:Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic by nkurz on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:27PM (#23634072)

That's a bold claim considering how many webpages there are claiming that it comes from Catch 22: https://www.google.com/search?q=heller+catch+22+%22paranoid.

On the other hand, my attempts to search for the word "paranoid" in the book on Amazon turn up nothing. And there is a semi-authoritative page that makes the same claim that you do, saying that the closest he found is a quote about a "persecution complex": https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/09/paranoid/

Do you have more info?

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Re:Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic by Nition on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:22PM (#23635418)

The previous user is correct, that quote isn't in Catch-22. Nor is any similar sentence.

If multiple sources are saying it is, they must be getting the idea from each other.

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Re:Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic by nogabebop23 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:47PM (#23631324)

nit - this is not a Cobain quote, rather Heller from Catch-22.

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