Since there is little time left in the day and there's a decent chance I will be lynched, I'm going to post the entirety of Golden vs. Zebra in sections so I can get as much information out as possible. I'd prefer people actually read my original posts, because I don't actually have anything to say here that I haven't said before, but maybe saying it again will magically get people to read it this time. Here we go.
Section A - The Suspicion, The Counter-Suspicion, and The Counter-Counter Suspicion
1. I mention how I am more suspicious of Golden and Black Rock for interrogating Mac's behavior towards Matt F, than Mac himself.
a2thezebra wrote:I'm more suspicious right now of the people that are trying to make it look like his behavior here is actually suspicious (Golden, and to a lesser extent Black Rock) as opposed to silly.
2. Golden responds with this.
Golden wrote:Zebra - I have never suggested Mac is bad for his behaviour or 'tried to make him look bad', so I'm not sure where you get that from. I didn't really get any suspicion from BR either, although I'd have to read that back.
I did, however, point out the inherent contradiction/irony in Mac's sentiment vs his posts, and talked his thinking through with him, and was satisfied with his answers. If I had voted for Mac on day one, it would not have been because I thought it was bad - it would have been to solely to fulfil his own reasoning for what makes a good policy vote on day one. Having backed down somewhat from the 'I will vote him forever in any game we both play' aspect, though, means I see nothing in Mac's position that is specifically unhelpful to the town - at least beyond day one. I don't specifically oppose policy lynches on day one, I just am unlikely to ever agree to the policy reason.
Putting this post in other words, ping! I now have my first real candidate for a vote. I found zebra to be a relatively fair and astute analyst of what was going on in the thread in Talking Heads. That post, though, was not a fair analysis. It felt to my like an artifical 'taking of sides' in a conflict that didn't exist, a setting up for a future vote for me or BR, and it caught my eye.
Taking it point-by-point and line-by-line because I have subjected myself to the hell hole of despair that is trying to get people to see the truth and not a work of fiction that will result in an easy mislynch, I shall begin. Golden insinuates that because he hasn't openly suggested that Mac is bad, that that couldn't have been the plan later on had Mac made it easier for Golden to do so. He is responding to the suggestion of a hypothetical plan by stating that said plan is not yet on display. Bad defense, and misrepresentation. Pointing out Mac's contradictions as if they were a serious topic of discussion in themselves rather than a means to initiate
other discussions, which is what Mac even said they were as he was in the process of doing it, comes off as opportunistic and disingenuous because it's a perfect example of easy targeting. Regarding voting for Mac on Day 1 because of policy lynch reasons rather than Mac actually being bad, this re-affirms that Golden would take seriously what Mac took as a means to an end. The question for the civilians (for Section A, at least) is: Do we accept that Golden was legitimately concerned or baffled by Mac's reasoning, or was he faking it to set up an opportunity for a mis(?)lynch? If you think it's the latter, then you would have said what I said, and if you think it's the former, you might be on Golden's side. But the problem is, that's not all. His response here indicates another agenda which looks even worse; this is the jackpot I was referring to in the post directly below.
3. So I responded with this.
a2thezebra wrote:
This is gold. This is really gold. This is the fucking jackpot, baby. Okay. Oh boy. Alright. Here goes. Deep breath. Let me get this straight. Wow. Here we go.
I pinged you because I made a post that could be interpreted as an opportunity to set up a future vote for you or BR. The reason you claim that it could be interpreted this way is because I seem to have taken a definite stance in an imaginary conflict. What was that stance again? Oh yeah, that you and BR may have been a little opportunistic with your interactions with Mac. Keep in mind, I didn't say that I was intending to vote for you or that what you two did was a serious "ping" for me, I only said that I was suspicious, and I said that with good reason. It seemed to me that you were the ones who could have been setting up a potential vote. Why else would you go after someone with genuine, serious arguments, when they are clearly trolling, as if Mac's absurd actions could potentially put his alignment on trial? But lo, that is in fact what I am doing! My bad. So just to recap, my suspicion of either you guys maybe setting up a potential mislynch is opportunistic, but when you suspect that I am doing the exact same thing with way less reason to believe so, it's not opportunistic, because...you really think I wouldn't notice the over-the-top hypocrisy of such an accusation? What makes this even better is that I merely suspected you, whereas for the exact same reason (but to a less rational extent!) you not only suspect me, but have made me a "real candidate for a vote"! Good luck.
Golden said that my post was not a fair analysis when it was in fact a perfectly reasonable observation of a hypothetical result based on tangible content to support that. The problem is that in order to agree with it you would have to agree that Golden's behavior towards Mac was not genuine, which of course Golden does not agree with. That's fine, but saying it's not a fair analysis is simply inaccurate.
It's an artificial taking of sides in a conflict that doesn't exist. And because there's better reason to suggest this to Golden's ping itself over my initial suspicion of Golden, there lies the hypocrisy. Additionally, Golden's ping is also a hypothetical; he thinks what I was doing was to set up a potential vote for later with no reason, when there was a reason. My suspicion of Golden was also a hypothetical, but in his response he treated it as something that could be easily refuted in past and present tense as if the hypothetical would be voided because he wasn't given the opportunity to implement it, which is the first significant misrepresentation of my argument. The same reason, only one is justified, and one isn't. It doesn't help of course that the one that isn't came directly after the one that is, and that is what set me off to inspire my "overreaction".
And from here the misrepresentation begins, continued in Section B if I have time to write and publish it. (unlikely, unless of course I am not lynched) And for the record I'm not asking to not be lynched so I can finish this response, I'm asking to not be lynched because I'm civilian.