Frank wrote on Feb 4^th, 2026 at 6:43pm:


I was actually impressed by your emoji replies, even if they were a transparent attempt to dodge the substance of what you were quoting, rather than defaulting to the usual name-calling and abuse. It suggested, briefly, that something had sunk in during your little holiday.

Apparently not.  We're back to the usual Frank...  That didn't last long...

And here I was, ready to offer you a reset, on the assumption you'd found a way to moderate your emotions and post with at least a semblance of respect.

Tsk tsk.

ProudKangaroo wrote Yesterday at 4:06pm:

Where was the name calling and abuse  of you in my post (which you truncated just so you can accuse me?)

freediver wrote Yesterday at 4:24pm:



It is in the psychology of the individual, the erratic hysteria.

For others, like Randa Abdel-Fatah et al, it might be a tactic:

The style she adopted made those protestations of innocence far easier to sustain. Because so much of her public presence takes the form of short, disjointed social-media interventions, its overall content is inherently difficult to reconstruct, allowing her to brush aside the objections her vitriolic statements regularly provoke. Yet when reassembled, those fragments cohere into a moral and political universe that leaves little room for persuasion, inquiry, or disagreement – and whose unqualified exaltation of violence, adamant rejection of intellectual and political pluralism, and strident advocacy of harassment and intimidation sharply contradict her self-presentation as an academic rationally and peacefully advocating for Palestinian rights.

At the heart of that style, which has now become her trademark, lies its incessant tempo. The sheer pace and intensity of Abdel-Fattah’s outpourings continuously stoke her supporters’ rage while leaving opponents flat-footed and disoriented. The need to remain at the front of the pack leads her to constantly escalate the vehemence of her rhetorical aggression, generating torrents of increasingly incendiary claims that gain traction not by withstanding scrutiny, but by permanently outrunning it.

Frank wrote Yesterday at 4:57pm:


Pretty much sums up what you see here. For some reason more so on the America board than anywhere else - even though it should actually be easier to be detached and objective, looking at it from the other side of the world. You can never figure out what their problem actually is with ICE, Lemon's arrest etc. There is just a new wave of irrational hysteria every time on of them stumbles across an article with a new tidbit of information. Like when PK proudly proclaimed, based on his own analysis of the evidence (or the corners? he never said) that the ICE headshot that killed the idiot woman must have come through the side window. That was a single post line of hysterical "argument", never to be touched again. They might stick to the other arguments for a few more posts, but the mysterious substance of PK's arguments always disappears when you look at it.

Frank wrote Yesterday at 6:17pm:


Oh? And whatabout the pederasts, dear boy?

You've gone pretty quiet on them of late. If I recall correctly, you fingered a dirty pedo Paki chappie.

Who he?

Frank wrote Yesterday at 6:31pm:


No no, we asked you, do you recall? You mysteriously disappeared - poof!

Into the dark of night, as is your bent.

Look, we wouldn't want to see you sharing anything you feel uncomfortable about here, dear boy.

We value the online safety of all our friends, no?

But that's just us.

Frank wrote Yesterday at 6:47pm:


Moi? Whatever do you mean?

Do you have a problem with one's purse?