Splat wrote:smackeddog wrote:
Following a badly managed basketball team is nothing like domestic abuse, get some perspective. How do you feel when someone does nothing but rant at you and call you an idiot for feeling differently from them? Yes, it gets tiresome very quickly, and after a while I get annoyed and tune them out. Tone it down and try engaging with people and understanding their perspective, you might find it more rewarding than ranting and alienating people- seriously do you actually enjoy the exchanges you're having?
I have some good exchanges. Mostly I've been raging, so yes I know how I'm coming off to most. Even though most of the guys who come after me are on ignore, I've peeked a few times and they are ALWAYS THE SAME.
When it comes to quid pro quo ad hominem attacks this site has a steady crew of regulars who have always crapped on extreme opinions. It didn't matter if in the past I stated them more graciously or in a more warring manner this past week. Guys like fish and jrmod and reddog have always been intolerant, creepy bastards.
If you look at my conduct, you'll see I crossed the line to the extreme with Nix and most anybody else I've actually answered civilly when not bludgeoned on the first pass. I even gave envy the benefit of the doubt, but peel back the layer on him and it always turns into screeching weasel time. Did I go haywire on them when they started frothing at the mouth? Nah. Ignored. I'm far more in control of myself then you may realize.
But I'll cool it on Nix. I still think he performs the role of a Dolan mouthpiece, but I can concede he has a right to be that way.
Mostly though, there are plenty of people here who are simply incapable of handling extreme opinions. And my skin is too thick to give a crap about them. If they crap on me sometimes I'll crap back, sometimes I'll just ignore them.
No, I don't think the majority here are analagous to abused wives. I'd say many are perfectly fed up with Dolan and this franchise. And the ones who yell at me that my ideas are crap! are usually not very bright so I don't really care what they have to say. But, yes, there are a portion of people who are bright, yet conflicted and maybe my commando tactics did impact a few of them. I only care that a handful of people get shaken up and see the light.
What does that mean? Stop paying Dolan's bills. That's a real world result. Walk the talk. The rest is ineffectual until an anti-Dolan sentiment blows up online. These days Americans rarely rally to produce meaningful public actions, but sometimes web sentiment does catch fire and the media picks up the torch and runs with it.
If fans fan that fire and it one day happens that Dolan gets hot feet and sells you'll remember me as someone who believed that was possible. And it starts when people quit being manipulated into consuming garbage and they actively question the motives of the corporation, because there is no longer a Knicks team only Dolan and his operatives. Phil has already been swallowed by the whale and most of you just don't get it.
Insulting the Knicks is like burning the flag. The patriots get very angry when that happens.
And finally, I'm pretty damn logical in everything I post whether some like it or not. If people crapped on you like they do on me you'd probably be just as ornery and contentious as I've been if not more. I'm fed up and I have an itch to scratch. I'm not going to apologize for that, but I'm not going to insult you for asking me why I've been doing this. This has been my civil response to you.
But my issue is that you seem to think that your view is revolutionary and controversial, when in actual fact everyone on this board thinks Dolan is an idiot. All we differ on is levels of optimism regarding whether he has truly taken a step back, and whether Phil is up to the job. The objective reality is that no one knows. We can infer stuff from past records, but we all come to our own subjective conclusions- there's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't make someone a stooge, or on someones payroll. It's like me accusing you of being a rich investor who actually wants to buy the Knicks, and that's why you're trying to drum up the Dolan boycott. Do you get how that sounds?
You also keep saying that you're the one who gets the abuse, but from what I've noticed you seem to give out more than you get back, in that regard- not sure if you just don't realize it.
