Upset that I once again hit several nerves by exposing you for what you are, Ethan? There is but one big difference between you and a con man: the latter tend to be good at pulling the wool over others' eyes.

That's a pretty funny idea. Dissident seems particularly ill-suited to dealing with trolls. The same wacky utopian socialist ideas stuck in lots of verbiage, over and over again.

Wacky utopian socialist ideas? Spoken like a true centrist liberal, Ethan! As per usual! The opponents of progress and change who disingenuously call themselves "progressives" even think single-payer health care is "wacky" and "utopian," so why not? Those are your ilk's code pejoratives for any type of change that threaten the neoliberal worldview you are all dedicated to preserving, often at pretty much any possible cost. At least you're being more honest here than usual. Bully for you! :-D

We get it...you do not want change, so you dismiss any suggestions to change that amount to actual change and not just superficial window-dressing as "wacky" pie in the sky.

"...stuck in lots of verbiage, over and over again"? Spoken from the guy who is the ultimate one-trick pony in this community. Very rich, Ethan!

That's kind of like hiring a professor of classics to lead your SWAT team.

And you pretending to be a proponent for the well-being of kids is like a warden claiming he has the prisoners' best interests at heart. Except wardens do not tend to insult the intelligence of others by claiming this to be the case.

It's a fail well before you realize he doesn't actually know any classics either but just had the role of the professor in a high school play.

Sort of like how you take up the role of progressive and advocate for the best interests of kids, when you actually care for the lack of progress and the preservation of authority over kids?

Is anyone being edified at all by our engaging with billi? Posters, lurkers, anyone?

Does this perchance translate to: Let's stop engaging Billi because she speaks many "truths" I would rather not see challenged?