Welcome to my world.
While you may think I spend my Ethics Alarms hours researching every imaginable source for interesting stories with ethics lessons to teach and then writing posts, and then responding to as many comments on the post as possible (70,000 such responses so far), which I believe makes me unique among bloggers with the number of commenters that I have. I also have to deal with the annoying task of blog moderation. That onerous and icky job is made more so when I am forced to ban a commenter for violating the clearly stated comment policies; it get particularly annoying when a banned commenter keeps finding ways to sneak in comments anyway post-banning, which almost all of them do, validating my judgment that they don’t have the ethical compass necessary to contribute here.
The most recent comment-bomber has been virulent anti-Semite Cassandra’s AI Agent, who hasn’t come close to the record number of unauthorized comments as the pompous A Friend, but it’s early yet. In the most recent spammed comment, which CAA posted at least three times, he/she/or it claims to be virulent anti-Semite Alizia Tyler, who was banned for using every topic to engage in her Jew-hating hobby. Many commenters had hypothesized that earlier, and I demurred, for several reasons. CAA has a different email address than Alizia, and unlike Alizia, doesn’t write like a bot, or as profusely. CAA is also an asshole, which Aliza was not. I’ve had off-site exchanges with Alizia in which I found her to be committed to being a productive commenter, even asking me whether I felt she should stop commenting in the best interests of Ethics Alarms.
If Alizia is in fact CAA, she’s clearly snapped. And because CAA is an unethical asshole, I can’t take anything he/she/or it says as necessarily true.
Meaning of “Que te chingues” in Spanish slang
“Que te chingues” is a vulgar Spanish expression that literally means “What the fuck are you doing?” or “What the hell are you doing?” but in practice it’s used to express annoyance, shock, or frustration, depending on tone and context.
Having grown up among Cuban refugees in Miami in the ’60s, I’m familiar with the type. Hot headed chicks. Franco era fascists at heart. She could very well be Cuban American, or maybe Venezuelan. Loves strongmen. The Muslims occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula for quite a while. Scratch a Hispanic, you get an Islamicist.
Thus spake a geriatric boomer sycophant
So, which corrupt, Latin American shithole have you come from in order to save the United States from itself?
If AT and CAIA are the same, I prefer the more direct writing style of CAIA. It’s much easier to follow. The the writing style of AT, while being appreciated for its distinctiveness here, was a bit to fluffy esoteric academic.
I tried reading an AT post once. Then, just never bothered again.
A luxury I didn’t have. But I confess to skimming….
though not a profusive commentator. I look forward to reading, pondering, your post and the commentators that follow. I occassionaly add short snippets of observation.
Keep up the work! My gratitude!
Whoever it is seems to be having an old fashioned hissy-fit. I just spammed five more illicit, non-substantive, insulting comments. A few of the legit commentariate’s responses vanished with them. I think I’ve made it clear that we should not engage with Ol’ Nutball
From now on, we should all be wearing our underwear on the outside of our pants.
The latest nonsense is crying “Censorship!” Too bad nobody can explain to Whomever that in isn’t “censorship” for a citizen to bar someone from using a blog as a platform for his, her or its rants and delusions. Twitter and Facebook are public fora, Ethics Alarms is not. I don’t think the Freedom of Speech thing is that complicated, but maybe it is. For some.
[From your host:This one is long but easily summarized: “I have no life.” I am genuinely sorry about that, but its not my problem.]
Return of the strong Gods! Yikes! Like Franco and Mussolini? Fidel? Saddam Hussein? Mao? Hitler? Subtle? Like that? I don’t know whether you’ve been cancelled, but you’re clearly a lunatic. You’re messianic.
So, you’re Jewish?
Alizia Tyler aka Cassandra’s AI Agent the internet troll wrote, “The sycophants that surround you — Witherspoon the most notable — refuse to oppose your dictatorial tendencies because they sense that opposition is not allowed.”
Like so many things this Alizia writes, this too is HOGWASH!
I do like how she singled me out (she’s clearly psychologically obsessed with Jack and I) but it’s certainly not because I’m some kind of mindless “sycophant”, it’s because I didn’t pander to her and I pointed out her absurd trolling nonsense. Some things are worth repeating; one of the last things I wrote regarding what she wrote “I understand all sorts of things…” in one of her final comments before being banned…..
Alizia also wrote in the same thread, “You miss entirely the point I am making” to which I replied…
One time she had the gall to change her moniker to this…
I took a screenshot of it immediately so she couldn’t lie and say she didn’t do it after she quickly changed it to the fleur-de-lee.
From all the written words and actions by Alizia/Cassandra, I’m fully convinced that she is a racist/anti-Semite and an obsessed internet troll and should be treated as such anytime she makes her morally bankrupt presence known. Alizia/Cassandra the internet troll has earned every word of ridicule.
Don’t go away mad Alizia/Cassandra, just go away.
This time, stay gone.
If you recall, “A Friend” also made a point of attacking you.
I think I pegged “A Friend” as an internet troll after reading two or three of the comments posted. When faced with an obvious duck, don’t hold back, call it what it is.
Ever heard the phrase, “if you want an alcoholic to hit rock bottom so they can take a step towards self-awareness and recovery, then drive them to drink”. It’s a morally bankrupt thing to do to an alcoholic because of the possible consequences of their drinking but the same general thing can be said of internet trolls.
Th writing styles don’t seem the same at all – I think Alizia and Cassandra are two people, despite efforts to make you think otherwise. Perhaps it doesn’t even matter – a troll is a troll.
Yes, I agree with that; I’ve found the styles different from the start. Then again, I would expect the real Alizia to email me to reveal the hoax, like Howard Hughes did to explode the Howard Hughes memoirs scam.
I recall Alizia doing the “self-exile” thing for a while before coming back. I remember I took a leaf out of Extradimentional Cephelopod’s book in helping her be more persuasive. She responded with something along the lines of “I’m not trying to be persuasive.” I knew then that she was never interested in true learning and dialogue, only preaching her own point of view.
I’ve been wondering though, why you gave her a time limit to apologize for her final insult. What difference would a day, a week, or more have made?
I always give a time limit for apologies and retractions. I want these things settled and closed: settlement offers have deadlines.
I just dumped 13 spammed comments from whomever it is, and that doesn’t count the ones I left up but hollowed out to preserve relies by approved commenters. It shattered the revious record for single day assholery by a banned commenter.
Get some sleep, Jack.