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RE: "It's a Free Country!"
What's the problem? Can you please enunciate what dictating means, because in this context it is read that he was telling you how you should respond, when I don't see how that is.(P.S. If you respond to this article by saying, “If you don't like it, then leave!” then you're just a well-trained slave demonstrating what a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome you have.)If you can't handle people disagreeing with you, maybe the internet is not for you.
Now my words: Who keeps saying that he dictated? I made the observation once and he did in his last statement, still.
To dictate implies clear authority, just or otherwise, recognized or not. It says: I command you to do this and you are to abide by it.
Who is he dictating? What is he dictating? Am I dictating when I presume that someone showing certain attitude or is simply a certain way is probably because of a certain factor? Or is it dictating when I am telling someone what to do, what to think? Am I dictating when I presume that someone focusing on something that isn't there and agreeing to the points I made previously only for them to then right after ridicule the post, the entire train of thought, because of an invented irony, and expressing that the internet is not the best place for someone like YOU, a you which glazes over the facts and agrees that what he said didn't mean much of anything, but even if what he said was true it's funny because of what a hitler he is, preaching anarchy. Reading comprehension is epic fail brow.
Was it not worth putting it in clear words exactly what you meant when you said it was ironic that this post "dictates the terms".. and decided that by quoting without context really settles a question which is asking to please provide a clearer meaning to your words which say "he is telling people how they should do things" very clearly with "dictating terms". Your observation of irony is... wrong. Your observation of dictating terms, is also wrong as he didn't tell anyone what to do, dictating as a verb and how you used it is conveying a specific sentiment, and this authority figure which is inherently in the figure of speech dictating terms, and especially when you allude that you can observe dictating from the statement about the internet not being the best place for people who have a difficult time discussing the valid points because they have tripped over some perceived infraction in logic land, a place that is never questioned, dare I.