What’s the relevance of video games to the discussion?

I give evidence.

Brad remains unashamed of his ignorance.

However, its mocking of “detailed homoerotic sexual imaginings and clumsy, witless boasts”, in the same breath as denouncing, “pathetic, juvenile ad hominen” was a nice garnish of hypocrisy.

- Yawn -

I also find that when he responds to me, his counterpunches are clean and enviably well- targeted.

What makes you assume I don’t have a blog?

What makes you assume I don’t enjoy what I do here?

Call it weird, because, it surely is a little, but I find it entertaining to cram your pathetic juvenile ad hominem right back down your throat. I laugh out loud at the detailed homoerotic sexual imaginings and clumsy, witless boasts of my fan club here. Comedy gold. One literally can’t make this stuff up…

Before a troll remarks on the mote in Bradley’s eye, perhaps he should remove the towering sequoia planted in his own posturing face.

Again: write a serious article, since you apparently have written for money. Post that, instead of these nasty little comments. I don’t know that Patterico would give you some space, but even if he doesn’t, you could create your own blog and spend all this time and energy on promoting your world view. My guess is that you would get many supporters as well as detractors. Wouldn’t that be more productive and enjoyable for you, honestly?

Oh, and snarking at me doesn’t change the point. You continue to post here, too. Perhaps you are Patterico’s Number One Fan, to follow your reasoning (claiming that you have some kind of fan club because posters here find you irritating).

Carlitos schooled you but good, and you still lash out. Change the subject, and post on something. If you can.

“Of course, the troll provides no evidence this death-culture recruitment of children occurs in other religions outside Islam.”

The fact that you felt it necessary to Dowdify his quote and then provide evidence that failed to meet his criteria pretty much says it all about where you are intellectually.

Not true Brad. Remember this?

“Wonder what you defenders of childhood innocence make of this:

http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/007733.html

“Muslim Massacre” is a video game in which an American hero commits genocide against Muslims.

Comment by Hax Vobiscum — 2/15/2009 @ 10:25 pm”

Then there’s this:

“The Pentagon also spends about $6 million a year to flog an online video game called “America’s Army” to attract children as young as 13, “train them to use weapons, and engage in virtual combat and other military missions.”

http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/humanrights/crc_report_20080513.pdf

And this:
“The new 72-page report, “Children in the Ranks: The Maoists’ Use of Child Soldiers in Nepal,” describes how the Maoists have continued using child soldiers, and even recruited more children, despite signing a Comprehensive Peace Agreement with the Nepali government on November 21. The peace agreement commits both sides to stop recruiting child soldiers.”

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/01/30/nepal-maoists-should-release-child-soldiers

And this:
“The vast majority of Tamil diaspora members and Swiss nationals who attended a cultural festival in Thurgau in Switzerland were shocked to see schoolchildren as young as eight years enacting a drama dressed as child combatants using replicas of most lethal weapons.”
http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/ltte-uses-children-fund-raising-propaganda-geneva-cultural-festival-switzerland

And this:
http://www.childsoldiersglobalreport.org/content/israel

”In Hebron, observers reported the systematic use of youngsters under 12 to carry out acts of violence and vandalism against Palestinians and their property.44 Israel’s police commander in the Hebron region said, “We have a major problem here. They [the settlers] understand our weak point – and they use children under the age of criminal responsibility, under the age of twelve. They do this intentionally. They [the children] are the tactical wing, even the strategic wing, of the adults.”45 The Israeli NGO Yesh Din found that of 150 cases of complaints of settler violence opened in 2005 and closed by November that year, 50 involved children under the age of criminal responsibility, all from the Hebron area.46 One adult victim from the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron reported that “settler children attack us, with the parents encouraging them and standing next to them”.47 A number of videos of child settler violence were posted on the Internet in 2006–7.48 Attacks by groups of older Israeli children against Palestinians in the area were reported on a relatively frequent basis.”

Yet Brad says there’s “no evidence.”

I think it’s pretty obvious that he didn’t even look for evidence, which is a pretty bad habit of mind for a journalist.

I found this stuff in 2 minutes flat on Google.

The fact that Brad says there’s “no evidence” without even having bothered to look for it pretty much says it all about where he’s at politically.

I condemn such propaganda without reservation, wherever it is, but somehow I doubt that will matter to carlitos

After more than 500 posts, at last the troll condemns the cute Islamist kiddie-suicide bomb recruitment programs, although not by name.

But in the next breath the troll adds, “. . . wherever it is,” implying that such horrible programs are produced on behalf of other religions.

Of course, the troll provides no evidence this death-culture recruitment of children occurs in other religions outside Islam.

The troll is terrified of the truth. It always retreats in murky, undergraduate-level philosophical mushy pseudo-condemnations, because it can’t face the real world.