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Dana Jumper's avatar

What??? Go away.

I guess you felt the need to call someone out...

"*someone tied you down and *forced you to read the comment section. Else, you could have just *skipped the entire thing. But, victims are going whine."

Additionally, please allow Matt to speak for himself if he chooses. I know you think you're clever enough to speak for him..."So, on behalf of Matt,..." but you're not.

I'm not your victim. You seem to complain as much as me about your loss of GG's column, so what is your problem.

Add you to the troll list. Still, I agree, Substack should do something about the comment section to allow us to collapse or mute people like you.

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@Dana Jumper

Perhaps a bit of a "refresher" on the way a comment queue works ? It is NOT a vehicle intended to allow you private and dedicated communication with Matt.

And, if it *were, perhaps you know that Matt is on vacation. So, either getting Matt's private URL, or writing to him "snail mail" style is the way to secure the "individual communication" with Matt that you seem to be under the illusion exists via the standard comment queue. TTFN !

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Dana Jumper's avatar

@Atma (h/t @SH) I am not the one that had any special communication for Matt Taibbi. My original comment was not addressed to anyone in particular; it was a general comment of how full of trolling Matt Taibbi's Substack has become, even though there are so many original comments that deserve consideration.

YOU are the one who chose to speak for him, and your quote is-- "on behalf of Matt..." Now you're gaslighting. As if I wouldn't notice.

I've seen your numerous comments on so many other peoples' comments. You clearly think you have relevance or special insight. Frankly, you don't.

My original comment was in no way a --your words "private and dedicated communication with Matt" it was a general comment on trolls like you.

My second comment was intended to send you a very strong signal that you are a troll, someone who feels qualified to call someone else out by your comments--your quote ""*someone tied you down and *forced you to read the comment section. Else, you could have just *skipped the entire thing. But, victims are going whine."

Thanks for your lessons on how comment threads work. Thanks for your glorious insight that I must be a victim. Thanks for your dozens of comments on everybody elses' comments. You are spectacularly insightful.

You clearly must be. You have so much to add to every comment.

My original response to you applies, and @SH, I can only hope you see why. @Atma, go away. You are a troll, and yes, I'm calling you out right here, right now, go away.

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@Dana Jumper

Good gawd, Ma'am my comment : "On behalf of Matt....." was *JOKING ! How freakin' resting face TENSE *are people today ? And, not to be *excessively rude, but I don't *care enough about a stranger on a comment Q to *bother spending my time "gaslighting" them. A good gaslighting takes some truly concentrated *effort ! ;-D

So, if you are cleverly "noticing" something that is not happening, that is just as likely *projection on your part as it is "gaslighting" on behalf of another.

All I want from *you, Ma'am is *AWAY ! Let's make *that happen !

Cheers !

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Atma's avatar

@e.pierce

Not to my certain knowledge, no. I was merely suggesting alternatives in "general".

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SH's avatar

Guess you, too " ... felt the need to call someone out ...."

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Dana Jumper's avatar

@SH (HT to you for teaching me that!), but I didn't. I specifically left my original comment that started this thread general, so as not to attack anyone. But, when I was called out, labelled a victim, I did respond, and maybe not my finest hour. Thanks to you for your thoughts on what was an interesting comment group from which I learned quite a bit, despite the unpleasant one.

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@Dan Jumper - I learned that "trick" from Atma :) Amazing what one can learn from folks :)

The reason I posted that comment to which you are here responding is that, it seems to me, "Go away" is another way to stifle speech - I suspect, but don't know if, or how many (having no "citations" to back me up), there are folks out there that may be reading this stuff that have something they would like to say but don't because the "price" is too high for them - either money wise or because they figure they, too, will be told to "go away"

I am a rather persistent (fill in the blank with favorite epithet) - telling me to go away, or insulting me, doesn't usually work - as folks may have noticed :) - but for a lot of folks it may well - and I think maybe we need to hear from those folks, like 'em or not, agree with 'em or not ... it is surprising how often folks we may think of as "broken clocks" are right "twice a day" :D

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@SH, some speech can be stifled. This isn't a question of stifling dissent, or discussion, or insight, or knowledge, or understanding, or thoughtfulness, or even wondering, it is a matter of letting a troll know it is a troll. Do we even need to hear from trolls, endlessly, on almost every commenter's note, regardless of the troll's validity?

My newfound Substack friend, you ask too much of me! :-)

P.S. it's @Dana Jumper, not Dan, and it's my real name, and I'm a real person. Believe it or not, even on a social media type of platform.

Thanks, see you in the next episode.

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@Dana Jumper

Oops! Sorry! I forgot the a, my fingers, like my mouth, sometimes get ahead of me :D

Well, I don't know that we "need" to hear from them, but i have been called a troll so often that if I took it seriously, I would have to banish myself ...

I do believe you are a "real person" - I think most of the folks here are, which is what makes it so interesting :)

Thanx for the convo!

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