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to all recent converts to the Sacred Temple of Miscreants, Trolls, Infiltrators and Naysayers. Right now I'm sure you're licking your wounds and feeling like fools for allowing yourselves to get snared by Ray's smoke and mirrors. We've all been there, and like a bad date, the sting dissipates over time.
You'll find many reformed WP cheerleaders on this thread as well as a few, like myself, whose nature it is to challenge authority and make those who wield it account for their actions. I recognized early on in my tenure at WP that something was very wrong with that picture, and although I hated to throw in the towel on all my hard work there, I refused to let the likes of a liar and a cheat tarnish my good name and reputation and take advantage of me and my business to glorify his selfish motives. If you were around back in July through October of last year, you may remember me at WP.
I had never been a "boardie." I didn't even know TT existed until another WP seller told me about it and I linked to this thread. I read a few pages and saw many of my instinctive concerns validated by others in a free and open forum. I considered TT my battered Pooper shelter. And I was truly bruised and bleeding at that time.
Feel free to vent, to rant, to call Ray names, to ask for advice or just plain comfort. Free speech is alive and well at TT and everyone's input is valued. Even the Grems and head cheerleaders are welcome here. We may think they're misguided andÂ
drugged, but we don't censor them.
WP is the embodiment of hypocrisy. "Founding Member" icon -- what a joke! There is no revolution, no "We The People", no democratic principles, "Independence Hall", no free speech, no room for independent thought, no disclosure. Contrary to its "revolutionary" theme, there is NOTHING about WP that even remotely resembles American revolutionary principles. While John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence BIG and BOLD so the king could read it, Ray cowers in the shadows like a paranoid, snickering madman poised with his trigger delete finger ready to strike. Ray IS the king -- his Royal Boinktardedness - the Supreme God of Poopland. All bow and kiss his booty. The Founding Fathers would turn over in their graves.
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Morning Gang!
As usual, another magnificent post, DB!
I especially love your final paragraph and this statement within: "WP is the embodiment of hypocrisy." When I read your eye-opening posts I oftentimes think of a quote my late father used: "I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise."Â