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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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So we're all agreed at this point in the drama circle that PhilipTheBucket is one of his alts, right?
I got into an argument with pug like 3 days ago (over an admittedly hot take of mine, which he screenshotted and shared in the same community)
In came Phil to play the good cop but ultimately ended up being the exact same type of troll, as I interpreted it then. At least he had the exact same type of antagonistic bad faith interpretation of my words.
Good to know I'm not the only one to think something weird was going on with them. If they aren't the same person, they sure share the same online schedule and biases a lot.
Phil has lied for Pug, so they're definitely in some kind of kahoots.
Personally my interactions with the two of them make me doubt this.
Though with both the conversations did spiral into a huge thread, and although they do share a lot of opinions, the behavior in those conversations was different enough to give me pause on jumping to this conclusion.
Yeah I really don't think they are the same person.
I personally see more similarity between philip and cm0002, but who knows.
I find them all fucking tiresome and tell them to their face. Only on the drama shit tho, I love the effort they put into content generally. I should clarify.
He's just a shithead who sides with a abusers, not the same but at least a useful idiot.
Nah, they have very similar worldviews and argument styles but I'm pretty sure they're distinct people. I've pissed off PugJesus and gotten personally blocked by them but I haven't irritated PhilipTheBucket to that point yet___ on this account.
Possibly. Or at least the same type of idiots.