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Originally Posted by Abcdxxxx
...and you're just like a punchine bag without a lifeline.
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Touche, sir! I particularly like how a "punching bag with a lifeline" actually means something terribly clever. Your mastery of wit and the English language in general leave me feeling just like a toothbrush without a skyline!
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the difference here is, i'm sitting with a proof copy of "journey of the jihadist: inside muslim militancy" while you're just referencing it like the asshat you are.
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OH MY GOD, YOU HAVE A BOOK! I should just give up right now!
I never referenced his book, smart guy. If I recall correctly, I referenced two articles at his website. Those may have been excepts from his book, but that would be irrelevant to the only point of that reference, which was that I was not making up my own terminology. Not that at this point I'd expect you to pay attention to points, or facts, or anything other than HOW STUPID AND WRONG ZIGGY IS, HYAH HYAH HYAH! HE REFERENCED GERGES, LOL!
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if you want to discuss it, then come back once you've read the fucking book. that way, when i counter with a reference to gerges of my own, you won't think it's putting words in your mouth, and you might actually get the punchline.
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Putting words in my mouth is when you say "You think ____" when I have never said "I think ____". It really isn't that difficult to understand.
If Mr. Gerges is wrong about everything he's ever said because the fine, unbiased folks at National Review can take contextless snippets from pre-9/11 publications that certaily seem to indicate he was grievously mistaken about Bin Ladin, then why did you even bother reading his book? I mean the folks at National Review don't like him! And he didn't know Al Qeada could do a 9/11! I mean, EVERYONE knew they could that!
See what I did there? I just completely avoided addressing any "facts" National Review has at their disposal because I don't like their poilitics and think they're biased! Except I was being sarcastic in an attempt to parody what you have done with Gerges thus far in this forum. I hate spelling that out like that, as it takes all the humor out of it. But you must have a pretty warped sense of humor anyway, coming to a internet humor site specifically for its politics forum! Maybe, to you, that makes it even more hilarious! Who knows, LOL!
However, none of that in any way addresses a brief remark I made regarding his essay, nor does it matter to me, because I'm not the sort of person who latches onto an author or scholar and defines my entire universe around either believing or disbelieving everything word they say. I'm perfectly willing to believe that sometimes people say things that are wrong, and sometimes they say things that are right. Unless it's some random troll on an internet forum. I absolutely
adore latching onto the wrongness of every word uttered by a self-important jerk like you.
If you really wanna debate about Mr. Gerges (which I don't - I'd much rather just call you names), then why didn't you do it in that thread, instead of bringing it up here? I seem to recall you were upset that I used the term "jihadist" to describe a group of people. I don't recall (or particularly care) what else upset you about that post, since you didn't bother to reply with anything of
substance then, but I'm pretty sure Gerges isn't the only person on Earth to call these people jihadists, as a
lazy Google search will indicate.
(NOTE: this is the part where you show me how wrong I was in an absolutely dumfounding fashion, and then laugh to yourself about how you're the smartest and funniest guy at this message board)
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