On 28 Oct 2008 at 10:59, Nick Arnett wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:53 AM, John Williams
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> 
> > Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > >
> > > Must you keep putting up the same straw man?
> >
> > As long as you keep pretending that you have the right to tell
> > other people that their wants and opinions are subordinate to
> > yours, you will keep tilting at straw men.
> 
> 
> Ooo, a straw man to defend the use of a straw man!  A meta-straw man!
> 
> If you wish to talk about this stuff in the context of real-world democracy,
> please begin.  Otherwise, I'm getting off the merry-go-round.

The phrasing being used strongly suggests he's using a bot to reply, 
incidentally. It's the repetitive, slightly-nonsensical repitition of 
the same point of view regardless of the content being replied to.

AndrewC

(Not that I've written IRC bots to do that before or anything).
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