I’m sure it’s been a fun weekend for you, examining every liberal blog to see if anybody makes mention of Armando. Attention! Attention! Attention! Armando is getting lots of attention!
On March 30, 2006, at MyLeftWing, you said:
Speaking for me at least, not only have I never complained about abuse, I take matters into my own hands and leave my combatant whimpering.
As for bannings – one person has been banned at my reques[t], Madman in the Marketplace – for spewi[n]g lying smears about me, Markos and daily kos.
I don’t need to ban anyone – I’ll outargue and outabuse anybody in the blogs.
Armando, the short explanation is this: You reap what you sow. When people say you had it coming, that’s what they mean.
You heaped abuse, ridicule, profanity, scorn, and vigilantism on poster after poster after poster. Meteor Blades tried to intervene and persuade you to behave decently, but to no avail. Now that somebody’s found a way to make it hurt for you, like you made it hurt for them, you become a world-class whinybaby. Cowboy up, dude.
You were not outed because you are a prominent left-wing blogger. You were outed because you are an unrelenting asshole. You’re attempting to make yourself the victim here by drawing a bright line between the abusive behavior you’ve perpetrated for years and Jiggy Flunknut’s behavior in outing you.
Guess what? You’ve got it backward. Your behavior is far worse than his. He simply told the truth about you. Big fucking deal. Newsflash: you’re not important enough for people to track you down and do harm to you. You must view yourself as John Lennon at the Dakota. LOFL.
Seriously, Armando, your behavior has been far worse than Jiggy’s on many dimensions. Perhaps overarching all of them, though, is the fundamental disconnect between your public calls for a sense of community, decency and fairness in society on the one hand and the horribly indecent behavior you exhibit toward your fellow travelers on the other. The sin is compounded by the fact you occupy a position of leadership in the blogosphere.
Read this post carefully, and if you are as self-reflective as you claim, perhaps you’ll begin to see yourself as so many others see you. [Pause . . . nah, won’t happen]. If it’s necessary to silence your analysis in order to stop your abusive behavior, it’s a price worth paying.
When you come back, and you will, here’s a suggestion. Find a milieu where you can post articles only. Refrain from commenting. That way, whatever value you offer won’t be outweighed by your personality disorder.
UPDATE: link crossposted to swordscrossed.org. The comment system would not accept the whole diary.
