Whelp, now that you brought up Nick, no one will believe me, but I swear I was thinking specifically of film critic Simon Abrams and his behavior on Twitter when I said what I did.
Nick's rhetorical skill is highly overrated, by the way. He calls everyone who disagrees with him stupid, and no one takes his assessment of their intellect seriously. Further, he flatly lies, while calling others liars. It's all juvenile Usenet trolling. Take this part of that lengthy thread, where he clearly tells an anon that they have gone back and "deleted and reposted" their anonymous comment. Two people tell him that's impossible, at which point he claims he never told the anon she "deleted and reposted" her comment. He then goes on to imply James edited the comment for the anon.
It's ridiculous, unfair to everyone especially James, who was already getting stuff he didn't deserve on Twitter about the IP addresses of the anons. Nick does that kind of thing all the time. You don't notice it, I guess.
As long as people like you praise his "skill" and say "well, to be fair, you made a mistake" as some kind of rhetorical out whereby the person being intimidated, harassed, trolled and called names kinda-sorta deserves it on some level, he's happy. As long as people who never get on his bad side let the women Nick attacks -- and yes, start paying attention to gender ratios, and how often Nick threatens screencapping or brings up four-year-old tweets and six-year-old LiveJournal comments to women, and how often he does it to men -- do all the objecting while everyone else sits back and says nothing, Nick's happy.
And as we all know, Nick's happiness is of utmost importance.
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Nick's rhetorical skill is highly overrated, by the way. He calls everyone who disagrees with him stupid, and no one takes his assessment of their intellect seriously. Further, he flatly lies, while calling others liars. It's all juvenile Usenet trolling. Take this part of that lengthy thread, where he clearly tells an anon that they have gone back and "deleted and reposted" their anonymous comment. Two people tell him that's impossible, at which point he claims he never told the anon she "deleted and reposted" her comment. He then goes on to imply James edited the comment for the anon.
It's ridiculous, unfair to everyone especially James, who was already getting stuff he didn't deserve on Twitter about the IP addresses of the anons. Nick does that kind of thing all the time. You don't notice it, I guess.
As long as people like you praise his "skill" and say "well, to be fair, you made a mistake" as some kind of rhetorical out whereby the person being intimidated, harassed, trolled and called names kinda-sorta deserves it on some level, he's happy. As long as people who never get on his bad side let the women Nick attacks -- and yes, start paying attention to gender ratios, and how often Nick threatens screencapping or brings up four-year-old tweets and six-year-old LiveJournal comments to women, and how often he does it to men -- do all the objecting while everyone else sits back and says nothing, Nick's happy.
And as we all know, Nick's happiness is of utmost importance.