Re: Whither Oxyaena?

On 04/12/2024 19:04, Kestrel Clayton wrote:

On 04-Dec-24 13:03, erik simpson wrote:

On 12/4/24 9:45 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 15:49:46 -0500, Kestrel Clayton
<richZIG.e.clayZIGton@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 03-Dec-24 13:54, Martin Harran wrote:

On Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:34:31 +0000, Martin Harran
<martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:
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Glenn was exceptionally nasty
to her about the whole thing.

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Bad choice of words ... nothing exceptional about Glenn being nasty :(

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I presume you meant "Exceptionally nasty even by the exceptionally nasty
standards of Glenn."
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(Glenn's posting history shows decades of slowly growing angrier and
more paranoid. I feel a little sorry for the guy, even though I know
it's at least partly self-inflicted.)

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Towards the end of the 'old' TO, I began to take the notion that Glenn
might be a sock puppet for Nyikos. Despite some indicators, I didn't
have enough evidence to call it out and I also doubted whether Nyikos
actually was capable of being able to maintain such a level of
subterfuge for so long.
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I believe Nyikos and Glenn were separate cranks, neither sock puppets of anyone else.

 Yeah, my bellyfeel is that they were separate people. Peter Nyikos was already pretty spiteful; I don't know that it would have made sense to create a sock puppet just to be abusive when he was already doing that on main. Besides, Dr. Nyikos clearly wanted to be seen as formidably intellectual, which very much ran counter to Glenn's style.
 I suppose it's not impossible he rolled a sock puppet just so he could post the occasional smugly lowbrow "Says you" and "Neener neener," but if he had, I doubt he would have been able to resist praising himself with it, or rushing to his own defense when challenged.
 

I remember that once Glenn was a creationist, but he stopped arguing for creationism and turned into a troll. (That's when he acquired several entries in my killfile.) There was once instance where Peter went lower than usual, and (even) Glenn called him out. I also recall seeing anti-papist comments from Glenn. I don't have any doubt that Peter and Glenn were different persons.
One "conspiracy theory" that did cross my mind was that his account had been hacked by the FSB. The other is that he was an atheist false flag trying to make Christianity look bad.
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alias Ernest Major