sure. personally I don't think it's actually valid for you to totally forget about it, and then once confronted with evidence just continue on. but either way, if you think you're justified, then so be it.
but I also feel that my stance is justified. while you may not consider yourself to be a part of the group, the reality is that if 10 people are arguing with me, and you are number 11, you're going to get remembered as part of the group. it's not about the severity of the argument, it's about the ridiculous extent of topic derailing from multiple users all nitpicking the same person.
(this topic itself is not a good example, for the record. well, it's a good example of foolmo's insanity but otherwise there is no real ganging up in this topic.)
as evidenced by my earlier post, I had remembered specifically arguing with you in the gun control topic. and I knew we had argued several times before, maybe not the exact severity or extent. but, once again, this isn't solely about you. it's a pattern of behavior involving multiple users.
as I said in my earlier post, maybe it's true (or not) that you were unfairly lumped in with others. but that only happened because you coincidentally were doing the same thing as some of them, at the same time as some of them. probably on multiple occasions, but maybe just one (with other misc arguing in between) if we want to give you the extreme benefit of the doubt. there are very likely other times we interacted where you never said the word maria. where either I or you used different usernames. or it just didn't get logged somehow. I'm also not going to read all of these old topics, so anything that you report is likely to have at least a slight bias in your own favor. and most importantly, even if you don't INTEND to do something, that doesn't mean that it's not happening. you can still be a member of a group all performing the same action, even if it wasn't premeditated.
I can accept this if you're willing to accept that I have a right to want to start to question things like what you mean by me "attacking" you, and the severity of the arguments, and so on, because you made a specific accusation of me that I regularly attack you, snipe you with comments, and so on. I truly don't believe that to be the case, and the current evidence available to me reaffirms that feeling. I understand that you may group me together with others when I'm on the opposite side of a debate, but you basically made an accusation that I was intentionally going out of my way to jump on your case regularly, which caught me off guard because I can promise you that is not the case at all. Hell, in the provided examples, we have just as many topics of being on the same side in an argument as there are topics with us on opposite sides.
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