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  > Search for "appelbaum" on reddit and sort 
    by date, go back to the beginning, you 
    don't even have to count to see it's kind 
    of a blitz. 

So someone out there is trying to santorum appelbaum, one might conclude.

That's the only thing I responded to, because it shows me that you are looking for things where they don't exist, and deciding that you found them anyway.

I've rarely seen other people attribute malice to my actions at times when I know I'm being anything but, but when it does happen, the person is lashing out at any stranger.

Pretty much means the person I'm dealing with is isolating themselves, and it won't be possible to do anything right for them, regardless of any objective, rational information one might try to present.

In the 1984 movie, Ghostbusters, one of the main characters, Ray Parker (played by Dan Aykroyd), accidentally selects a childhood memory of a marshmallow mascot for the "stay-puft" marshmallow company. He imagines, in his own mind that this was a representation of harmlessness, only to find it transformed into something horrible, and used against him.

Growing up, I had superimposed the belief that the central circle was supposed to represent an original infected cell, and then, I thought the sharp hooks were supposed to be forming three new infected cells violently emerging from the original infected host, destroying the host in the process.

The imagery seemed to make sense to me, since viruses load up in a cell, and force the cell to churn out copies until it explodes.

I figured the knifey looking sharp hooks were just stylization, to communicate danger and get the point across. (see what I did there?)

If the internet is a volcano, then any cult of personality built thereupon is the Pompeii in this here allegory.

Sieze the day for now, and get what you can from it, but the internet has never been an uncomplicated and sleepy, snow-capped mountain retreat.

And no one is buying into the sexual aspects of this shit show (which it definitely is), certainly not rape. There are some painfully obvious reasons why any rape allegation is just beyond silly in this scenario. Like, rape is a one-way street, man.

  a spooky name relating to a literary figure who 
  killed himself

Ha! Oh man, talk about a stay-puft marshmallow moment.

The name was supposed to be borrowed from an absolutely harmless carmel candy. Something that could do no wrong, but I had to truncate it into something that would fit into HN's 15 character namespace.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Margaret Thatcher?

  "just"? Sorry no

Well, yeah, kind of...

  rapist sociopath

Hey, geeze. People were talking about plagiarism over here, why'd you have to bring up the "R" word! There's kids on this site for christ sake!

Seriously though, this really is just a lot of drama going on. On the internet, no less.

Quotes like this come to mind:

  Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

As a total stranger on The Inernet, I'll reply.

So, people saying things on the internet, in the press, out in the world, in many ways are permitted to speak freely. Anecdotes and personal opinions are permitted in civilized discourse, when the context is not a legal court of law.

All this is just so much gossip, and it's people blowing off pent up steam, and airing out frustration. Big deal. Reputations are on the line, and not much else.

  this "creating facts on the ground"

That's how it works, when a person is telling their own tale, about their own experiences. That person says what they saw. That they've claimed facts to be true, is a fact on its own, and there's nothing earth shattering in any of these sour grapes getting squished.

The real world doesn't actually operate on justice and ratios. Shit floats by. People get over it.

Dialog is not transactional. Conversations are not permanent and destroying. Not all statements are clinical diagnostics. As a dippy-doo in the peanut gallery, I don't feel very polarized. The internet flops about, and flippity floops, and so what?