Fuck.

[joshcryer]

569. The poster posted a falsehood.

And was corrected.

And rather than sit back and go, "Hey, you know, I was wrong, I thought that was true, and I was wrong for not fact checking, and you're right." They got all up in arms and accused the person, who's brother was lost to suicide, of playing "tiny Internet games."

Those are the facts of the situation.

If I post something that is objectively false, I will immediately apologize for my ignorance and I will not go off on some tangent about winning fake Internet points. 100% of the time. (I may send a personal PM if I am wrong and don't feel like kicking a thread, like the recent Nazi thread on Ukraine where I was wrong about the tanks being shipped in.)

I cannot take seriously anyone who admits that a serious discussion on suicide and soldiers being used as props as "tiny Internet games." I cannot respect anyone who says something like that. It doesn't help that I have been inundated with falsehoods from certain posters here for years now, and every time it happens, they never correct themselves, they never apologize, and they keep doing it, hoping no one notices.

I notice.