Been here for many years and haven’t seen behavior as boorish as this, especially from a self appointed debate club president.

Post you’re replying to:

Which is what? I’m honestly unsure. Could be: we need to nuke the data centers, or unseat any judge that has allowed this, or somehow move the law from “it’s cool to do matmuls with text as long as you have the right to read it.” Not against any of those but I’m sure I’m Other Team coded to you given the amount of harassment you’ve done in this thread to me and others.

I've been here longer than you have, this is my 100th alt account. The rules are for tools.

All of this meta-discussion of debating when/how we should debate or complaining how "rude" or "boorish" we are is more off-topic, boring and distracting than any flamewar.

The whole point of this site is to coerce public-facing people (like VC founders) into interacting with anonymous users and debating the ideas themselves. A sort of middle ground between reddit and 4chan. That's what all the "civility" and "kindness" talk is for.