> This is generally the test of extreme stupidity because those so adept rarely realize there is even a contradiction because they lack in critical thinking.

> You can separate Cook is a garbage person

We've banned this account.

We've asked you politely, several times over the years to observe the guidelines. In recent times you've been acting more than ever like they don't apply to you. They do apply to you just as they apply to everyone and it's time we made that clear.

In this case, someone has raised the notion that sometimes someone can hold two legitimate positions that are contradictory, which, as the original commenter mentioned, is attributable to F. Scott Fitzgerald but has been noted in different ways by many reputable philosophers and scholars through history. In your reply, you've effectively sneered at anyone who wrestles with such contradictions, including the parent commenter, then gone on to use the term “garbage person” for another human.

Other terms you've used about people in recent times include:

dumber than a box of rocks

literally not figuratively the 1930s Nazis

monsters

fools

cretins

idiots

morons

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When people continue to break the guidelines, even after several appeals from moderators, we have to assume they have no intention to use the site as intended and in fact want to be banned.

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